Unzip, put in ~/.config/GIMP/2.10/plug-ins/ (remove any old version) and also ~/.config/GIMP-AppImage/2.10/plug-ins/ It should supercede the existing built-in plugin. Remember to update the filters (now 545) That works for me.
@Carmelo_DrRaw
Slightly different topic but might be linked. Question came up on g-f.net yesterday about lots of error messages with latest Gimp 2.10.21 appimage + gmic_gimp_qt. Fixed it, but you might want to update your version of gmic_gimp_qt Gory details here: Gimp + Gmic + AppImages
I am just testing, but already I can say that I noticed this behaviour when filter has to calculate for a long time.
My guess was that it might have something to do with allocated memory.
I just tested “dream smoothing” with 2 different photos:
One that was 8288 × 5520 in size. After about 2 min filter just stopped working without error message or crashes, similar to the above video.
On the photo with the wolf (1920 × 1280) filter finished the task and transferred the result to the GIMP as a new layer without any problems.
The settings for the filter were the same. Output mode was “New layer”
Yes, that is very interesting. I have duplicated the photo with the wolf and scaled duplicate to 7000 × 4667 pixels.
Then I tried different filters with original and enlarged duplicate. I tried some filters in “artistic” subornders that take longer to calculate, like “brushify”, “chalk it up” and “dream smothing” and “stylize”.
On the larger duplicate all filters stopped working at some point and on the small file there were no problems.
Here is the result of “brushify”:
That’s interesting. Then, it is not related to a shortage of memory.
I see no reasons then why it couldn’t work with large images…
Really strange, and I’m out of ideas right now
I deleted everything in the .config folder that had to do with GMIC, including the folder with GIMP’s Appimage. Then I re-downloaded GIMP 2.10.20 (with plugins) AppImage from @Carmelo_DrRaw:
If I use “Extract Foreground” filter with this GMIC version and then press ENTER key to confirm interactive window, window disappears and GMIC continues to work (you can see it on the indicator below). But even after 10 minutes nothing happens.
Then I re-downloaded GIMP 2.10.20 (with plugins) AppImage from @Carmelo_DrRaw:
started GIMP and GMIC and then GMI’C-Qt for GIMP 2.8 ver. 2.1.3 appeared!
You have an old gmic version installed somewhere and taking precedence. The Gmic that comes with 2.10.20 is 2.9.0
Might be a hardware problem. This using an average laptop, 4 core Intel / 8 GB memory / kubuntu 18.04 / Gimp 2.10.20 appimage + gmic_gimp_qt pre-2.9.3
That ‘no preview’ does not mean that interactive extract does not work. Bumped your wolf screenshot up to 7000x4000 pix and works ok. 60 second video example. https://i.imgur.com/IU5Ss08.mp4 with middle cut-out.
Dream smoothing is another matter, it is slow at the best of times. There could well be a image size limitation. Bumped an image up to 9000x6000-ish CPU maxed out, running hot, stopped it after 15 minutes. It did not crash, might have finished sometime. A smaller 6000x4400 image did complete in 8 minutes. 30 second video https://i.imgur.com/jpwbWGk.mp4 with lots cut-out
Could it be that the progress bar is not visible in the plug-in window when using the dark theme, while it’s visible with the light theme ?
Did you wait enough for the filter to process, when using the dark theme ?
I’m trying to understand… That’s one of the weirdest bug I’ve encountered
If you use other filters with darker themes, the progress bar will move (left and right) for a while and then just stop. You can still see it but there is no more activity. And “apply” and “OK” buttons remain grayed out. I notice that the filter doesn’t work anymore because my fan is getting quiet.