Chatting a bit with mitch and pippin from the GIMP team yesterday, they convinced me that porting the current version of the G’MIC plug-in for GIMP 2.9 could be something possible, and even not too complicated. So I gave a try.
And it seems to work
The plug-in was already working for GIMP 2.9, but without the support of high-bit depth images (16bits or 32bits/channels). Now, the latest version on the git repository should be able to get/set image data from/to GIMP while keeping the value precision (and not shrinking the pixel values to 8bits as before).
If you are using GIMP 2.9 (so the development version), and are interested by a high-bit depth support in the G’MIC plug-in, then maybe you could help to test the current plug-in code, and give feedbacks ?
This is for “advanced” users, because you’ll have to compile the G’MIC plug-in by yourself (which is actually quite easy on Linux, but probably a pain on Windows ). Here are the steps for the Linux users (esp. Ubuntu in this case):
Then, copy your plug-in binary gmic_gimp to the GIMP-2.9 plug-in folder (on Linux, $HOME/.config/GIMP/2.9/plug-ins/). Then run/restart GIMP-2.9 to make it appear.
You should not see any big differences with the "usual’ version (hopefully), but now you’ll be able to apply all G’MIC filters using high precision modes.
Do not hesitate to try and give me feedback so I can improve the plug-in code if necessary.
Actually, we should thank mitch and pippin from the GIMP team, who bore my awful and trivial questions on irc
Looks like it is working great now, so I’m happy, it didn’t take a long time to make this happen.
I’ve got Gimp 2.9.1 installed okay. And I got as far as “make gimp” then i get this message on Ubuntu 14.04
Package json-glib-1.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `json-glib-1.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'json-glib-1.0', required by 'GEGL', not found
No output from 'pkg-config --cflags gimpui-2.0'
Package json-glib-1.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `json-glib-1.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'json-glib-1.0', required by 'GEGL', not found
No output from 'pkg-config --libs gimpui-2.0'
gmic_gimp.cpp:52:21: fatal error: gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory
#include <gtk/gtk.h>
^
compilation terminated.
Hello all, I installed the latest version of the GMIC plugin to my gimp 2.9 install using the instructions posted here, but after moving gmic-gimp to the plug-ins directory and starting gimp, I got this message:
Could not execute plug-in “gmic_gimp”
(/home/jzzz/.gimp-2.9/plug-ins/gmic_gimp)
because it uses an obsolete version of the plug-in protocol
Which OS are you using, and which instructions did you follow exactly?
Where did you get your 2.9 GIMP from? Did you compile it yourself, or did someone provide binaries?
same issue here:
Could not execute plug-in “gmic_gimp”
(/home/martin/.config/GIMP/2.9/plug-ins/gmic_gimp)
because it uses an obsolete version of the plug-in protocol.
GIMP compiled for Linux Mint Debian Edition as described here:
ok, got it running, Problem with GMIC plug-in for Gimp 2.9 pointed me in the right direction.
If you are running gimp from the distribution and your own compiled version in parallel you need to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH accordingly.
). Here are the steps for the Linux users (esp. Ubuntu in this case):
