Installation
Good luck!
- Create a directory as a sandbox for plug-ins. e.g /home/username/plug-ins/
Add that directory in GIMP as a plug-ins folder, then restartGIMP . GIMP->Edit->Preferences->Folders->Plug-ins
Windows OS Settings
When you download a plug-in or script from Github it does this as a raw text file. So a plugin.scm can become plugin.scm.txt. This will cause an install fail. To avoid this, make Windows show file extentions.
- Open File Explorer by pressing the Windows key + E.
- Click on the “View” tab at the top of the window.
- Check the “File name extensions” box in the “Show/hide” section of the menu.
After you have completed these steps, file extensions will be visible for all files on your computer.
Install Plug-ins
To download an individual file, first navigate to the file you want to download on the GitHub website.
- Click the filename.scm
- Click the “Raw” button that appears, this will present the raw text.
- Right click the page and “Save As” to download the file to your computer.
- Remove any .txt extension that gets added by the OS
- Save plug-ins in a folder named the same as the .scm file;
- e.g /plug-ins/plug-in-name/plug-in-name.scm.
- In Linux, right click the file, properties->permissions->allow executing file as program
- Restart GIMP to see the plug-in menu. Keyboard shortcut the plug-in if it’s useful to your workflow.
- Ctrl-f will repeat the plug-in using it’s last values.
- all plug-ins can be downloaded here…