Things you wish you knew at your start with GIMP

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Things you wish you knew at your start with GIMP, "if you knew at the start "! There would have been a change
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write freely your creative and personal answer !
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[Ofnuts]

That seven years later I would create a forum about it.

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for me ..
in short and direct answer !#:plugins
gimp cannot stand without plugins! ..

[Espermaschine]

(03-14-2018, 01:09 PM)unknown7 Wrote: for me ..
in short and direct answer !#:plugins
gimp cannot stand without plugins! ..

what are your essential plug-ins ?

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(03-14-2018, 01:41 PM)Espermaschine Wrote: what are your essential plug-ins ?
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For example but not limited to! there are a lot 

1-fx foundry
2-script - fu                       
3-layer effects
4- G’MIC
and alot like layer via cut liquid rescal a lot and a lot just google it and the main site is  http://registry.gimp.org/ , but i do not know why it is no longer active may be i should ask for that !..

[Ofnuts]

(03-14-2018, 02:18 PM)unknown7 Wrote: the main site is  http://registry.gimp.org/ , but i do not know why it is no longer active may be i should ask for that !..

Spammed to its death... If you create a place on the net where any one can post stuff you get spammers, and the more popular that place is, the more spammers. gimp.org is in the top 10K of the web(*), so it got lots of spammers, and nothing in its design was built to prevent this.

(*) By comparison, this forum's rank is about 900K (read: barely on the spammers radar), and despite two to three lines of defense against spam we still get 5-10 spams a day.

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(03-14-2018, 02:49 PM)Ofnuts Wrote: Spammed to its death... 

 
so! what is the alternative ! everytime i search for plugin in most times lead me to this site !  so i mean most if not all my plugins from it !
so is there  alternative have live updates and active links and of course clean !?????

[Ofnuts]

The registry is still available, but in read-only/archive  mode. gimpscripts.com is commatose/dead.

OTOH, thanks to their open source, freely redistributable nature, most Gimp script/plugins can be recovered from any available source if needed, and this include people who have downloaded them in the past.

[rich2005]

Of course it depends how you search. If you use http://registry.gimp.org/ then it is a brick wall. Not only that but seriously out of date.

If you search for a particular type of plugin you often get a positive result. Although still out-of-date. :example search for: gimp script +arrow gets



gives: http://registry.gimp.org/node/20269

I will start off some links for you:

Some collections

ofnuts http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-pat...s/scripts/
ofnuts http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-too...s/scripts/
Saul Goode's http://chiselapp.com/user/saulgoode/repo...pt-fu/home
RobA's scripts http://www.silent9.com/incoming/scripts/
http://gimphelp.org/ many updated to Gimp 2.6/8 fx-foundary scripts + some brushes.
http://www.arakne.es/en/category/dessign/gimp/
Japanese site, all sorts: http://www.geocities.jp/gimproject2/gimp2.8/plugins/ (edit: windows plugins)

Some one-off plugins

http://www.alessandrofrancesconi.it/projects/bimp/
https://slybug.deviantart.com/art/Layer-...-305728401

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(03-14-2018, 04:26 PM)rich2005 Wrote: I will start off some links for you :

 thanks ! , The obstacle in front of the open source programs and its plugins is  to keep alive ..!