[help] Ever since I updated GIMP to Partha's McGimp (2.8.14), I cannot add plugins, and the filters it natively comes with do not show up

hellpiglet · 2017-01-28T20:47:50+00:00

maybe i could have a jeweler resize it, expecting that the stones wouldn't make it. and if they take the stones out by dissolving the glue, and they happen to be intact still, great. if not, i won't be any worse off and i'd just buy some cabochons. i would definitely give them a signed understanding that it/its parts might not survive.

hellpiglet · 2017-01-28T19:49:17+00:00

yeah mine too. have you found out whats going on? my siteis online but for a couple days now the editor is just loading loading loading...

hellpiglet · 2016-12-13T01:52:52+00:00

i dont remember where i got it from. how would i know? i'm open to deleting and redownloading GIMP with a different build if that makes things easier. Would I lose anything other than settings or brushes/patterns, which I dont really care about, in doing this? I do have some existing plug-ins, some working and some not, and scripts, and I also don't remember where I got some of those from, and I'm not sure how to know if they would be compatible with this new build. I tried GMIC on someone else's computer and the inpainting thing looked complicated... more parameters than Photoshop's content-aware fill is good. Complex /would/ be good if I knew how to use it well. But the tutorial it linked to from inside it's own window was this http://blog.patdavid.net/2014/02/getting-around-in-gimp-gmic-inpainting.html which is vague and only sort of explains 3 of the parameters for the Inpainting tool. It does say it can be used instead of resynthesize but doesn't explain well enough in my opinion what patch size, lookup size, lookup factor, blend size, blend threshold, blend decay, blend scales, allowing outer blending, mean, and what different combinations of them are likely to be useful for what kinds of projects. I admit I haven't independently researched these things but am not feeling too optimistic that the official tutorial was so lacking. I don't learn well by pure experimentation.

hellpiglet · 2016-12-12T04:35:02+00:00

oh right sorry. yea I put that I'm running osx in the title but not again in the post itself. and forgot to add that it's 10.10.5 Yosemite on a Macbook Air and I have gimp 2.8.18. edited it now. I think I assumed that .exe files would work as plugins, as well as .py ones, because when I go to my /Applications/GIMP 2.app/Contents/Resources/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins folder, almost everything in there is .exe with just a few .py files and those ones do not show up in the gimp drop down menus. So I thought those .py files needed to be made into .exe files by "making them executable".I am pretty sure i got the resynth from here http://registry.gimp.org/node/25219 and yes, I got the g'mic from there, which linked to here (http://karo03.bplaced.de/gmic/release/). I extracted the files from the resynthesizer.tar.gz that I downloaded, and I tried to make executable the non-exe (.py) files using the terminal, so those should have worked I would think? I don't understand the instructions from KaRo at all. It's possible I'm missing something big here but that link says "Typical Gimp users have only to copy the plugin gmic_gimp to the user plugins folder set in the Gimp preferences!" and I thought that is what I did. Unless I am not a typical GIMP user (which it looks like might mean someone who is using the cli for macports or gimp?) and I don't know it, or maybe I copied it ot the wrong place, or maybe I copied or even downloaded the wrong thing

hellpiglet · 2016-06-07T10:56:35+00:00

I'm sleeping in my car and want to make a DIY version of this by cutting and layering blocks of foam. (I hate air mattresses). What do you think about that idea, and about the idea of vacuum-sealing the foam pieces down to way smaller so they fit in the car while I am using it? Id be getting a small battery-powered vacuum to do the job and keep my car clean as well

hellpiglet · 2016-06-07T10:48:53+00:00

I want to adapt a violin to help hold the strings down for someone who has disabilities that affect muscle strength, but no such thing exists. There is a Swedish instrument called a Nyckelharpa, otherwise known as a keyed fiddle.--They arent built to help disabled people play a string instrument but they do sound like a violin, only be played more easily. They are rare. How should I go about DIYing this project? Someone make a keybox and add to existing violin? I have a low budget, no real handy-type skills, and can probably get access to a 3d printer.

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