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G'MIC (GREYC's Magic Image Converter) is a tool that comes with a lot (more than 190) of pre-defined image filters and effects for GIMP and is available for Window, Linux and Mac OSX.

New Nimi Visuals Version Adds 100+ New Features and Effects

Remember Nimi Visuals? It's an eye candy program for Windows XP, Vista and 7 users that allows you to add various effects like glow, transparency, and so on to Windows, Taskbar, Startmenu, etc.

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Version 10.1 comes with 100+ new features such as:
  • Desktop scripting - which allow User to turn their desktops into interactive HTML based field through scripts using JavaScript and Nimi Bastet scripting frontend
  • Repositories support - which allows to install scripts, plug-ins and even 3rd part customization software. Moreover it make it easier to keep it updated
  • Support for 3rd part customization software - both installing and running directly from Nimi Visuals
  • Synergy between both cores - classic and mirage can swap their functions for better performance
  • New effect types - on window creation and destroy, and on window state change
  • New graphics engine - allowing advanced graphics post processing, short named "nimioru", as well as handling tasks as retrieving window thumbnails(now supporting window themes for DWM capable systems)
  • Multi-monitor support for some effects - effects like edge snap, maximize have now better compatibility with multi-monitor workspaces
  • Suspend switch in menu - allowing to temporary suspend effects
  • New effect management - effects are grouped into categories
  • Quick search - now You can find effects by their name or description
  • Faster load time and better performance - thanks to core optimizations and effects architecture as well as detection methods

And new effects are:

  • window opaque on mouse over - only window in which area is mouse hovering is opaque, rest is transparent
  • invisible desktop - desktop is only opaque when focused
  • minimize non-active windows - which minimize windows that aren't focused
  • fluid windows - make windows behave like being made from fluid
  • smooth wallpaper - smooths wallpaper
  • fluid wallpaper - make wallpaper look like being made from fluid
  • taskbar reflection - which casts desktop reflection on the screen
  • transparent menu popups - which turns menu popup list transparent
  • window edge warp - which warps window to opposite screen side when moved outside it's edge
  • aurora fade - which fades window in aurora alike lights on their creation and destroy
And a lot of updates.

Download Nimi Visual 10.1

[via askvg.com]

Various Eye Candy Effects for Windows XP, Vista and 7

Nimi Visuals is an eye candy program which can add various effects to your Windows Desktop. It supports Windows XP, Vista and 7. It should also support Windows 2000.

It adds various transparency effects, shadow effects to windows, taskbar, etc. Following is a screenshot of Windows 7 taskbar having Shadow and Blurred background with the help of Nimi Visuals:


And a video:

Features:

New effects and existing updates:

  • "Window snap"-snapping windows to each other and screen edge
  • "Edge maximize" - maximizing windows when moved outside screen edge
  • "Invisible desktop" - hiding desktop icons when desktop is not focused
  • "Showcase" - with better rendering, changed to Win+Tab switch activation

And version highlighted effect:

"Taskbar and start menu blur" - providing transparent taskbar and startmenu with blurred background designed for non-DWM capable systems.

Transparency effects, with fading

  • Desktop shadows - turn all windows transparent and click-through when desktop is selected. Holding mouse with button pressed over transparent window activates it again.
  • Window fading in on creation - fade in window on it's creation
  • Contrast screen - creates contrast between active and non-active windows
  • Taskbar and start menu transparency(no fading)
  • Ttransparency on window move and resize

Jelly effects

  • Window kinetics - window will its momentum during move
  • Jelly windows - deform window shape depending on direction of its move in wobbly style
  • Jelly bounce - Makes window bounce on activation

Illusion effects

  • Creation sparkle - creates sparkle on titlebar at window creation
  • Contrastful windows - decrease saturation of non-active windows.

Other

  • Window quiver - minimizes or restore non-active windows on active window quiver movement
  • Window snap - maximizes window to half-width of screen when it's left more than half outside screen
  • Picture wallpaper-board - generate wallpaper filled with random images from User picture folder or Nimi folder in application data folder
  • Picture highlight - generate wallpaper containing one image from User picture folder, highlighted on adapted background
  • Screen frost - cover wallpaper under ice.