GMIC for Gimp

I came across this plugin while browsing through Sourceforge, it is called GMIC. According to the website (http://gmic.sourceforge.net/index.shtml) "G'MIC stands for GREYC's Magic Image Converter. 

This project aims to:
Define a lightweight but powerful script language (G'MIC) dedicated to the design of image processing operators and pipelines."

GMIC for GIMP provides a large set of image filters you can use to spruce up your images. I find these filters work great for photographs, my favorites are Polaroid and Reflection. These two are great if you are putting photographs into a web page but they look a bit boring.

To install on Windows, go to the following page (http://gmic.sourceforge.net/gimp.shtml) and download the windows plugin. This gets placed in the GIMP plugins folder.

For ubuntu its a little easier:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/gimp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gmic gimp-gmic

When you fire up GIMP you will have a new menu item under Filters called G'MIC.

An example image:

There is a Flickr group with some examples of what can be done.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/gmic/