Automate Gimp and get the most out of Gimp with these Gimp Script-Fu Tutorials Colelction. Here are some of the best Gimp SCript-Fu Writing Tutorials that will help you generate awesome efefcts in Gimp.

GIMP (The GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free software raster graphics editor. Primarily, GIMP is used as a tool for photo manipulations, such as resizing, editing, and cropping photos, combining multiple images, and converting between different image formats. GIMP can also be used to create basic animated images in the GIF format.

The product vision for GIMP is to become a high-end graphics application for the editing and creation of original images, icons, graphical elements of web pages and art for user interface elements. One point in GIMPs product vision would see GIMP used for the development of cutting-edge image-processing algorithms.

GIMP has approximately 150 standard effects and filters, including Drop Shadow, Blur, Motion blur and Noise. GIMP operations can be automated with scripting languages. The Script-Fu is a Scheme based extension language implemented using TinyScheme, GIMP can also be scripted in Perl, Python (Python-fu), or Tcl.

1. GIMP Defaults Script - "Mad Lib" Style

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a script, Mad Lib style! As I'm sure you already know, Mad Libs is the fun game where you fill in the blanks with requested information and when you're done, you get a funny storyline. The results from our "Mad Lib" script won't be a funny story, but a very usable script created by you, for you.

2. Creating Amazing Circles with Gimp Scripts

A Gimp Script that uses the Amazing Circle technique to apply polar distortion to a photo or selection and create a circle. This script makes it easy to adjust the size and border options.

3. Add Blue Sky & Clouds To Photos Using Gimp Script

Add clouds and a blue sky gradient to your skies (for "burnt-out" / burned-out white skies) with this Gimp Script.

4. Basics of Gimp Scripts

Learn the basics of Script- Fu with this tutorial that explains the basics of GIMP scripts, what they can do, where to find them and how to install them.

5. Gimp Scripting Satin Toolbox Script

Learn to create a script that allows the user to decide how the script should perform, rather than us making all the decisions. While some scripts are meant to do one thing, one way each time they are run, this could get boring for other types of scripts.

6. Add A Blue Sky Gradient To Photos Using Gimp Script

A Gimp Script that lets you to add a blue sky gradient to your skies (for "burnt-out" / burned-out white skies). This script is for adding colour to the sky area of your photo, and by default will simply darken any existing cloud texture that exists in the image. If you want to generate clouds, then you may want to try the Blue Sky & Clouds script.

7. Fixing Purple Fringing and Chromatic Aberration with Gimp Scripts

The purpose of this gimp script is to minimize the purple fringe that shows up in high contrast areas of photographs where chromatic aberration has occurred. For more information, see this entry about Purple Fringing on Wikipedia. This script will not be the answer to every purple fringe situation, but it can provide a quick fix in many cases and save an otherwise beautiful photograph. Because this script works by desaturating only the high contrast edges of your photograph, it can be used to minimize other types of chromatic aberration as well, as you also desaturate levels of magenta, blue, red and cyan in the high-contrast edges of your photo.

8.  Fixing Contrast with Gimp Scripts

A Gimp Script to add an adjustment layer to improve the contrast of a photo that is too dark or too bright/burned out.

9.  Fixing Saturation with Gimp Scripts

A Gimp Script that adds a saturation mask that can be used to fix photos with saturation problems like burned out colour channels.

10. Hot Dot to Fix a Dead Pixel Using Gimp Scripts

A Gimp Script to To fix photos from a digital camera with a "Hot Dot" or "Dead Pixel".

11. GIMP Scripting Tutorial - Image Satin Script

In this tutorial, we will modify the satin script we created in GIMP Scripting 103a and make it a script that runs from an open im.

12. GIMP Scripting Basic Tutorial

Welcome to GIMP Scripting Basic Tutorial! In this tutorial, we'll pick up where we left off in GIMP Scripting 101 and create a simple script that will run from the Main GIMP Window ("The Toolbox"). In GIMP Scripting 102b, we'll cover a simple script that runs from an open Image Window. Both types are relatively straightforward to implement, but they do have have some differences. Hopefully, I can provide you with some useful information that will help you along the path to writing your own scripts.

13. How to Make Panoramas

Learn how to take multiple pictures and then stitch them together to create a panorama using Gimp Scripts.

14. Create Bling Text Using Gimp Scripts

A Gimp Script that lets you generate glwoing Bling Text!

15. Create A Glass Effect Text Using Gimp Script

A Gimp Script that ;ets you create glossy transparent glass text. 

16. Multi-effect Text Using Gimp Script

A Gimp Script that lets you create Multi-Effect Text. 

17. Create Lava Logo Using Gimp Script

A Gimp Script-fu script that allows you easily to create text and logos using variations of the lava effect. Lot’s of interesting text effects can be achieved by varying font, text-color, shadow-color, bg-color and the gradient.

18. Batch Mode In Gimp

The GIMP comes with a so called batch mode that allows you to do image processing from the command line. It also makes it easy to apply the same set of operations to a number of images. Here are the basics.

19. Introduction to Scheme - Basic Scheme

You need to learn Scheme to write Script-fu and plugins for the GIMP. Here is a beginner's guide.

20. Introduction To Perl

So far most of the script programming for Gimp has been done through Scheme. Now, Gimp scripts may also be written with Perl. This tutorial will describe how to write such plug-ins and scripts for Gimp.