{"id":516,"date":"2010-08-21T22:10:17","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T05:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/?p=516"},"modified":"2015-04-26T20:57:31","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T03:57:31","slug":"gimp-national-geographic-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/gimp-national-geographic-script\/","title":{"rendered":"Awesome National Geographic Script in GIMP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webupd8.org\/2010\/04\/install-gimp-plugin-registry-31-in.html\" target=\"_blank\">installing<\/a> the new <a href=\"http:\/\/registry.gimp.org\/popular\" target=\"_blank\">plug-in registry<\/a> for GIMP, I stumbled upon the amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/elsamuko\/gimp\/ng\" target=\"_blank\"><em>National Geographic Script<\/em><\/a>. It is incredible! This script simulates high quality, vivid photos &#8211; like the <a href=\"http:\/\/photography.nationalgeographic.com\/photography\/photo-of-the-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">ones<\/a> from the National Geographic magazine. It uses a configurable mixture of shadow recovery, sharpening, local contrast, and various color overlay layers.<\/p>\n<p>The script is buried under:\u00a0<em>Filters &gt; Generic &gt; National Geographic.<\/em> The default settings usually work for me, but play around with the opacity of the <em>Screen<\/em> and <em>Overlay<\/em> layers for tailored results.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an example of the effect:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_519\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-519\" style=\"width: 374px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/01540_driftwood_384x240.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"519\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/gimp-national-geographic-script\/01540_driftwood_384x240\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/01540_driftwood_384x240.jpg?fit=384%2C240&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"384,240\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"01540_driftwood_384x240\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/01540_driftwood_384x240.jpg?fit=384%2C240&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-519\" title=\"01540_driftwood_384x240\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/01540_driftwood_384x240.jpg?resize=384%2C240\" alt=\"Original Image - Driftwood\" width=\"384\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/01540_driftwood_384x240.jpg?w=384&amp;ssl=1 384w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/01540_driftwood_384x240.jpg?resize=300%2C187&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Original Image - Driftwood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_520\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-520\" style=\"width: 374px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/01540_driftwood_384x240_NG.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"520\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/gimp-national-geographic-script\/01540_driftwood_384x240_ng\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/01540_driftwood_384x240_NG.jpg?fit=384%2C240&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"384,240\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"01540_driftwood_384x240_NG\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/01540_driftwood_384x240_NG.jpg?fit=384%2C240&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-520\" title=\"01540_driftwood_384x240_NG\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/01540_driftwood_384x240_NG.jpg?resize=384%2C240\" alt=\"National Geographic version\" width=\"384\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/01540_driftwood_384x240_NG.jpg?w=384&amp;ssl=1 384w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/01540_driftwood_384x240_NG.jpg?resize=300%2C187&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">National Geographic version<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kudos to the developer of this script! See <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/elsamuko\/gimp\" target=\"_blank\">his site<\/a> for more scripts included in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webupd8.org\/2010\/04\/install-gimp-plugin-registry-31-in.html\" target=\"_blank\">plugin registry<\/a> package.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there are many more hidden gems to find in <a href=\"http:\/\/registry.gimp.org\" target=\"_blank\">all these<\/a> GIMP plug-ins&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After installing the new plug-in registry for GIMP, I stumbled upon the amazing National Geographic Script. It is incredible! This script simulates high quality, vivid photos &#8211; like the ones from the National Geographic magazine. It uses a configurable mixture of shadow recovery, sharpening, local contrast, and various color overlay layers. The script is buried &#8230; <a title=\"Awesome National Geographic Script in GIMP\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/gimp-national-geographic-script\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Awesome National Geographic Script in GIMP\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[118,50,108,54,53,66],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gimp","tag-image-editing","tag-image-enhancement","tag-image-processing","tag-photography","tag-plugin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZdXI-8k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1636,"url":"https:\/\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/gimp-scripts-auto-enhance\/","url_meta":{"origin":516,"position":0},"title":"GIMP Scripts","author":"mcclanahoochie","date":"July 28, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Usually, when I'm using GIMP to edit pictures, there are a couple of simple enahcnements I routinely apply to each image. 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