Can not find Liquid rescale

[Kevdavey]

Hi everyone,

I started using GIMP a few weeks ago and I'm loving it. I was looking to change an image size and not have it distort. I found that other versions have a liquid rescale tool and my version does not. I was trying to find a way to install the plug in but the main download website says that I should already have it being an OS X user. I am using version 2.8.22. 

I hope someone can help.

[Ofnuts]

"Liquid rescale" isn't part of standard Gimp, it is a plugin. Where have you seen this statement that it is included in OSX versions?

On https://www.gimp.org/downloads I see:

Quote:Native build

The official GIMP 2.8 DMG installer (linked above) is a stock GIMP build without any add-ons.

There are other trustable builds (http://partha.com, for instance)(*) but I would not call them "the main download website".

(*) there are also rather suspicious sites, some versions can potentially include malware.

[h00pak]

The download page for Liquid rescale says that it's part of Gimp now.

[rich2005]

(05-16-2019, 03:26 PM)h00pak Wrote: The download page for Liquid rescale says that it's part of Gimp now.

http://liquidrescale.wikidot.com/en:down...age-macosx

This is a specific (old) version of Gimp for OSX that came from lisanet.de 

Might be in the partha.com  version - or might not. Certainly not in any of the general release.

[Krikor]

(11-01-2017, 07:43 AM)Kevdavey Wrote: Hi everyone,

I started using GIMP a few weeks ago and I'm loving it. I was looking to change an image size and not have it distort. I found that other versions have a liquid rescale tool and my version does not.

I use version 2.10.11 of Samj Portable, and in this version it also does not have this tool.

[dinasset]

samj has ported many plug-ins to 2.10 (see her may 2018 posts on her site samjcreations)
here a set wich contains lqr
https://samjcreations.blogspot.com/2018/...ts_25.html

(but these versions are for Windows only, as Ofnuts said look at Partha for other OS)

[Semper Phi]

I was wondering... has anyone managed to get liquidrescale or a similar plugin to work on OSX? Or Linux (as those solutions tend to also work in OSX now and then)

[rich2005]

(01-12-2024, 12:58 PM)Semper Phi Wrote: I was wondering... has anyone managed to get liquidrescale or a similar plugin to work on OSX? Or Linux (as those solutions tend to also work in OSX now and then)

Unless you can compile it yourself then I suppose nothing available for OSX. 

I do have it for linux (kubuntu), there is a dependency liblqr also there is a specific version for the Gimp flatpak, obviously not for OSX.

If (big if) you can get a gimp_gmic_qt plugin installed in your OSX then that has a seamcarving filter.

[Semper Phi]

(01-12-2024, 01:39 PM)rich2005 Wrote:

(01-12-2024, 12:58 PM)Semper Phi Wrote: I was wondering... has anyone managed to get liquidrescale or a similar plugin to work on OSX? Or Linux (as those solutions tend to also work in OSX now and then)

Unless you can compile it yourself then I suppose nothing available for OSX. 

I do have it for linux (kubuntu), there is a dependency liblqr also there is a specific version for the Gimp flatpak, obviously not for OSX.

If (big if) you can get a gimp_gmic_qt plugin installed in your OSX then that has a seamcarving filter.

Thank you for a lighting fast response. What I'm trying to do is expand an image with a plain background. It is now too square and I would like to make it longer, more landscapy so to say. However, due to the lighting the background is not 100% plain of course. Would there be another plugin that would work very well? Or perhaps something natively installed?

As background: I'm a total Gimp noob.

[rich2005]

I think you are going to be out of luck with Gimp and Liquid Rescale. This has come up before see: https://discuss.pixls.us/t/liquid-rescal...gimp/35122 without any success for OSX, but you could still try the suggestions and determine for yourself.

I had a good look around at what might be available for OSX. There is Krita with the built in G'mic plugin, the java application imagej + the seam carving plugin also ImageMagick (command line).

Unfortunately each of these only support shrinking an image not expanding it.

The wonders of AI ? Plenty of wonderful scaling options on-line, none of them implement seam-carving.

Are there any Mac forums where you might get advice? There is this: https://ports.macports.org/port/gimp-lqr-plugin/ but from that pixls post not working. I use linux so I do not know. What was not mentioned in that post was the liblqr dependency https://ports.macports.org/port/liblqr/

It is a great shame that Apple makes it so difficult to run Gimp.