DALL-E GIMP Plugin

Overview

This repository contains a GIMP plugin for integrating with OpenAI's DALL-E service, a powerful AI model that can generate and edit images based on textual descriptions. The plugin offers two main functionalities: creating new images and editing existing ones using DALL-E's capabilities.

Features

• Edit existing images: Select a region in an image and use DALL-E to fill or modify that region based on a given prompt.
• Create new images: Generate entirely new images based on textual prompts, offering various customization options like image size, style, and quality.
• Configurable models: Choose between different DALL-E models for varied results.

Requirements

• GIMP (version 2.10 or later recommended)
• Active OpenAI API key
• Python 2.7, once this is the only one currently supported by stable GIMP.

Installation

To install the DALL-E GIMP Plugin, follow these steps:

1. Ensure you have GIMP installed on your system.
2. Clone this repository or download the source code.
3. Copy the plugin files on plug-ins/ (dall-e_edit.py and dall-e_create.py) to your GIMP plugin directory. Typically, this directory is located at ~/.config/GIMP/2.10/plug-ins on Linux or C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10\plug-ins on Windows.
4. Restart GIMP to load the new plugin.

Usage

Setting Up

Before using the plugin, you need to set your OpenAI API key:

1. Go to DALL-E in the GIMP menu.
2. Enter your OpenAI API key when prompted.

Editing Images

1. Open an image in GIMP.
2. Select a region you wish to edit.
3. Navigate to DALL-E -> Edit in the GIMP menu.
4. Enter your desired prompt and adjust settings like model and image size.
5. Click OK to start the editing process.

Creating Images

1. Navigate to DALL-E -> Create in the GIMP menu.
2. Enter your desired prompt and adjust settings like model, image size, style, and quality.
3. Click OK to generate a new image.

Known Limitations

• Large images: Until now (11/2023), DALL-E OpenAI API's does not support images with size > 4mb. So, to allow the user to edit it's image anyway, this plugin tries, incrementally, to reduce the size of the image that's sent to DALL-E (not the one that is being edited), affecting the completion final result quality.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Contributing

Contributions to the DALL-E GIMP Plugin are welcome. Please feel free to fork the repository, make changes, and submit pull requests.

Support

If you encounter any issues or have suggestions, please open an issue in this GitHub repository.