Apply and Save/Load Preset Script for Layer Effects (Experimental)

[tim]

I think the error is just GIMP's front end type checking and not letting anything other than color type to pass through.
I don't know how to get around that.

[Dionísio]

Enjoying it so much!
It would be cool to have a option to call more than one filter successively.
I made a candle preset following Blue Lightning TV as a guide. Just apply the presets in order (Bevel/Emboss, Inner Glow, Stroke);

Bevel & Emboss
candle|(image,layer,1, 65.0, 0, 54.0, 10.0, 100.0, 30.0, 0, (255, 255, 255), 4, 75.0, (0, 0, 0), 3, 75.0, 0, False, 'Rain', 100.0, 100.0, False, True)

Inner Glow
candle|(image,layer,(0, 0, 0), 75.0, 0, 0.0, 9, 1, 0.5, 16.0, True)

Stroke
candle|(image,layer,(0, 0, 0), 100.0, 0, 3.0, 50.0, True)

[tim]

Break-through with version 6 along with altered layerfx.py
short story: You can use gradient for inner_glow and outer_glow and gradient/pattern for stroke
long story: layerfx.py's definition of front end only accepts PDB_COLOR, I changed it to PDB_STRING so that gradient and patterns can be passed in tuples or string, then inside the procedures before validation I try to convert it back to gimpcolor.RGB which is default type for color, and if it's gradient then it's just a string and it works. For stroke I try to convert it to tuple, if the first element is an int i try to make it gimpcolor.RGB, else it's just a tuple representing gradient params or pattern params and now it's all good.

[tim]

Enjoying it so much!
It would be cool to have a option to call more than one filter successively.
I made a candle preset following Blue Lightning TV as a guide. Just apply the presets in order (Bevel/Emboss, Inner Glow, Stroke);

Bevel & Emboss
candle|(image,layer,1, 65.0, 0, 54.0, 10.0, 100.0, 30.0, 0, (255, 255, 255), 4, 75.0, (0, 0, 0), 3, 75.0, 0, False, 'Rain', 100.0, 100.0, False, True)

Inner Glow
candle|(image,layer,(0, 0, 0), 75.0, 0, 0.0, 9, 1, 0.5, 16.0, True)

Stroke
candle|(image,layer,(0, 0, 0), 100.0, 0, 3.0, 50.0, True)

Dionisio, since you've named all your presets the same name (candle), I thought I would write a "Load Preset Apply All" which loads all the presets, and you can choose "candle" and it'll try to apply all layer effects presets that are named "candle". I hope this satisfies your needs for running more than one preset at the same time. Try it out in version 7 (or later) and let me know if this works to fit your needs.

[tim]

version 9 (hack to allow new layer modes [in addition to legacy modes] to be selected to be saved and applied as presets and loads works with these new layer modes as well)
I believe this is what @Krikor asked for about layer modes.

[Dionísio]

Downloaded! Going to run some tests. I got stuck making some world maps in GIMP, I'm thinking where I could apply some layer effects in these.

[Dionísio]

So, I tried opening a new image and trying my old "candle" preset in the new apply all. It got an error on the inner glow layer; I tried re-doing it (the preset) but the problem persisted. In both cases the bevel/emboss worked without problems, but any affect after inner glow didn't. The screenshot:

(edit: the new layer modes seems to be working fine though, in the individuals apply/save and load)

[tim]

@Dionísio ,
I was able to reproduce your error using your "candle" settings.
The problem is caused because you chose to Merge with layer, so after the first effect is applied, the pointer to the old layer is no longer valid because the newly merged layer is a new layer.
So I have changed the script (version 10) to run of based on layer name this way it doesn't error out, it always tries to apply the next effect based on the same layer name which can be a new resulting layer which is fine.
Please give version 10 a try and let me know.

[Dionísio]

Words cannot express how much I love this.
Ran a few tests, applying the same presets on the same text varying it's size.
Amazing plugin!

[tim]

@Dionísio ,
Right on, I am very glad you like it.