Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Gimp installation FAQs winxp mac

How do I configure gimp so that its more like photoshop

google for gimpshop it should solve all your migration issues

anyone knows where to download the latest GIMP for mac? i downloaded a version but it cannot find X11. hrrmph....

X Windowing Layer
GIMP uses a separate windowing layer, the X11 windowing protocol, on Mac OS X, which must be installed first. The XDarwin project provides this functionality. Apple used to provide their own version of this windowing layer, based on XFree86. Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) now ships with an X11.app based on the X.Org 7.2 release.

Monday, February 4, 2008

Refocus, deconvolution in GIMP

chk out this article features the refocus plugins for gimp

Linux.com :: Unshaking and refocusing your photos
Whether by wind, vibration, or shaky hand, we have all taken blurry photos. But in the digital era, there is no need to despair -- you can remove shake and ...

Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) liquid rescale plugin debs for amd64

Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) liquid rescale plugin debian package built on amd64

was so excited to learn about the gimp plugin at the gimp blog
Sigh had to compile my own source again cos i was using amd64
turns out its simple but the info is not mentioned anywhere.

first up you have to type this in a console so you can compiling plugins for The GIMP

sudo apt-get install libgimp2.0-dev

I am goiing to assume you have the other essentials to compile packages
so the next step is to go here to install the lib for liquid rescale

basically its download then follow the instructions

tar -vxzf liblqr-1-X.Y.Z-T.tar.gz

where you will substitute what's appropriate for X.Y.Z-T
This will create a directory called liblqr-1-X.Y.Z, enter into it and issue

./configure --prefix=/usr && make && sudo make install

and to repeat for the gimp plugin source the instructions are found from here.

tar -vxzf gimp-lqr-plugin_X.Y.Z-T.tar.gz

where you will substitute what's appropriate for X.Y.Z-T.
This will create a directory called gimp-lqr-plugin_X.Y.Z, enter into it and issue

./configure && make && sudo make install

I used checkinstall instead of 'make install' so I have the amd64 deb package precompiled. Drop me a comment maybe i can email to you or something. But I make no claims for the package to work on your system or nor am I responsible for any damage it may cause.

Using pre-compiled binaries from unknown sources is dangerous and I recommend you not to do it. But I am mostly harmless :)