I mistakenly omitted two plug-ins from the latest binary distribution of Gimpshop. I’ve updated Gimpshop 2.2.11 for OS X so that it now includes the missing plug-ins.
I put together a quick fix (60K) for those of you who would rather not download the entire 85 MB install again. Make sure you read the readme file.
I also omitted one thanks. I’m not sure how, but I forgot to thank Aaron Voisine, creator of the original Gimp.app. Without Aaron’s help and patience, I would not have been able to create the Gimpshop Universal Binary that I find myself using more and more each day (thanks primarily to Photoshop’s slow load time on my Intel-based Mac and the fact that I don’t have the luxury of Photoshop on my Mac at work).
What was missing?
macclipboard – Enables copy and paste between Gimpshop and your Mac system’s clipboard. Macclipboard allows you to copy and paste images from any OS X program into Gimpshop. You’ll find these copy and paste functions (Paste from Clipboard and Copy to Clipboard) at the BOTTOM OF THE EDIT MENU.
macfile – Macfile adds “Show in Finder” to the BOTTOM OF THE FILE MENU.
Sorry for the oopsie!
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Thank you.
Finally didn’t get codec overrun thing on 5th try of downloading from here/mirror sites.. Yay.
Also, I forgot to say this last time I posted, but Thanks for pointing where to look for X11 on install DVD too!
Does the 85 MB Binary have the left-out stuff added now?
Chad, the new binary has the added plug-ins. These are plug-ins that Aaron Voisine includes in his Gimp.app distribution and I’ve followed his lead (read: copied) and have been adding them to Gimpshop since the first version of Gimpshop for OS X.
Thanks for using the program! I’m going to install Windows (gasp!) on my Intel Mac so that I can work on the PC distribution of Gimpshop. I’m hoping it’s not too much of a headache.
Are there any plans to allow plugins for Photoshop CS/CS2 to be used with GimpShop?
Hey Scott,
i’ll probably email this to you as well, but I thought maybe posting here will let your readers put input, and maybe point out that I’m just a moron
As I’ve mentoined before, I’m a “swiitcher” and just got a Mac about a month ago, and I’m getting used to it every day, and have very little complaints… one thing that I complain about one day, then praise the next… is the “click focus / click again for action” “feature” that OS X has…
to clariy, lets say I’m browsing a web site and I want to send an email to somone from iMail, I have to click once to focus iMail, and then click again on NEW to get it to respond to the command. Windows, would have just been one click…
Now generally, it doesn’t bother me, I mean… it’s nice to have, except however, when I’m working in Gimp… now I’m not sure if this is a Gimpshop thing, but from reading around, it seems that OS X allows you to declare if a button will allow off-focus clicks or not.
Is there any way you can enable this in Gimpshop… or is it something Gimp needs to do… or am I totally off, and it’s not even possible? When I’m switching from the tool box, to the work space, and I want to, for example, select the Crop tool… I have to click the Toolbox, then click on crop, then click back on the workspace, then click on what I want to crop…
Is it a major annoyance, not usaully… except when I forget and think I’ve selected the crop, and I’ve selected the brush, and I draw all over my image
Anyway, i hope that makes sense, I really like gimpshop, you’ve done a great job, but that’s taking some getting used to, and I thought maybe I’d get your input. Cheers
Also, why doesn’t COMMAND X cut, like it does in all other Mac software? or does it, and I’m just stupid again
Cheers
swOrdfish, make sure you enable “Focus Follows Mouse”. It’s included in the Gimpshop install image. All you have to do is double-click that applescript file and you should be good to go. Read the readme for more info on it. Also, X11 doesn’t recognize the Apple Command key (yet!) and you’ll have to use the Apple Control key in place of it for Gimp keyboard shortcuts.
You know what, I’m an idiot. I even had a discussion with my Business partner when I downloaded the Universal Binary as to if I should isntall it or not…
Thanks Scott
P.S. Why does every time I post a comment, some advert pops up? Is that revenue based advertising for you? or is that some spammers or something?
sw0rdfish, you’re seeing spam as it’s posted (thanks to the magic of Ajax AND Spam Karma 2). Spam Karma runs every minute or so and cleans up all the spam. What you’re seeing is spam as it’s posted and then within a few seconds, Spam Karma catches it and deletes it. 44,151 spams eaten in the lasts four months!
Refresh the page, and you’ll see that spam email magically disappear.
The only ads on my site are Google Ads.
I figured as much! Nice… If I hever have that much trafic ( which won’t happen cuz I’m far from brilliant ) I’ll look up Spam Karma 2
Hi, great mod to a great app! I have been using Photoshop for a long time but with moving on to graduate school I won’t have a license from my work to use anymore. I have wanted to make the switch to Gimp but never had the time to spend learning the changes (nor the motivation to). Now that losing Photoshop may become a reality (and I cannot afford the application myself) and I have found your mod, things have become much simplier! Thank you!
I have noticed that there still are some differences. I was thinking it would be nice to have a page of menu names and locations in Gimpshop, Gimp, and Photoshop to show the differences. Maybe a table of sorts on a wiki? That way anyone who uses Gimpshop can add entries as they come across them in daily use. Unfortunately I don’t have a permanent web server, and I’m not familiar with any web hosting sites that will provide php and an SQL database for Media Wiki, but if you like the idea and can host one on your site I would be happy to set something up. I believe It would be a nice resource for the Photoshop switcher.
Thanks again for the awesome mod!
Jayson
Hello Scott!
I am getting around with gimp since 2 months now and i recently installed your gimpshop. Not at first for the reason to have photoshop-like menu structure but hoping to have the possibility to use the gimp plugins, because since 2 months I’m trying to get them work but they don’t. I tried anything – checked out the plugin folders – posted the problem over the web but it’s not getting better. Especially for web eport I want to use the guillotine-plugin that is there on my harddrive and that is shown on the split screen while loading, but it’s not in the menu. I even have no plugin management tool or somerthing.
It would be so helpful if you had any idea of how to fix this problem. Many thanks. Mika.
Mika, the Guillotine plug-in is located in EDIT > TRANSFORM > GUILLOTINE.
The rest of the gimp plugins should all be there, but I’ve moved or renamed some of them to match Photoshop. Hope that information helps.
Gimp has no plug-in management tool. Instead, you’ll need to add compiled plug-ins to Gimp’s plug-ins folder. In OS X, Gimpshop’s plugins are located inside of the Application’s package… right click Gimpshop and select ’show package contents’. Compiling plug-ins for OS X isn’t too difficult if you know your way around the OS X terminal window.
Please let me know if this solves your problem.
-Scott
Hello Scott!
Thank you for the reply. I already know all this. But under EDIT > TRANSFORM > GUILLOTINE there is no guillotine, although it is in the plugin-folder and the path to this folder ind PREFERENCES is right. Once I saw a picture, where under EXTRAS a kind of PLUG-INS item link appeared, thats what I called the “plugin-management tool”. This link I am missing too.
I don’t know is the SCRIPT-FU menu a plugin? Or only the items in its list? Because I have the SCRIPT FU menu and also its entries. Maybe ony the guillotine is missing.
I run a new Intel iMac, Mac OS 10.4.6. Maybe there’s the problem, although it’s Universal. As I mentioned I tried at least 3 different GIMP derivates. But not one of them offered me the gulliotine. (Danton and Robespierre maybe would have been happy to change situation
)
Mika.
Oh now i see. Those plugins don’t work withot compiling it? I don’t understand it. Why does Gimpshop then load them while starting? What does it load? I Think this compiling goes much too far for my abillities.. As I read there are kind of engines needed to do this. I didn’t found a step by step workout and I’m not so firm with unix. Mhm..
Hi,
I installed GIMPShop 2.2.11 on my Mac Powerbook. At startup, I always get the following error:-
The application helpbrowser quit unexpectedly.
2006-07-05 11:05:55 -0700
Link (dyld) error:
Library not loaded: /sw/lib/libgtkhtml-2.0.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/Gimpshop.app/Contents/Resources/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/helpbrowser
Reason: image not found
Is there a fix for this?
System info: – Mac OS X 10.4.7
1.5 GHz PowerPC G4
1.25 GB DDR SDRAM
Thanks.
Hi Scott,
I’m only new to gimp so please bear with my question. I am a ceramic artist and my decal manufacturer keeps wanting me to install their icc colour profiles…only having photoshop LE is there any way to install this profile into your gimpshop app? I’ve tried doing it with just gimp but it doesn’t appear to work or I don’t know how to do it. I’ve researched, and researched but can’t find any solutions so I’m not sure if this is an option.
Regards
Lisa
Scott,
I’m a relatively new Mac user and of course, i’m having a few “issues” in terms of downloading the GIMP.
I’ve downloaded X11 as instructed, as well as downloaded Gimp 2.2.10. Being that I’m fairly proficient on a PC, I’m just as deficient on a Mac.
given I know your a busy man, is there a site that might direct me better in regards to how to open the Gimp. I’m really dying to use it and see your handywork in terms of making it an alternative to Photoshop.
Thanks, especially for the rest of your blog.
Just wondering, when you compiled this binary did you happen to pass –enable-mp so that that the core duo intel macs can use both cores?
I’ve tried building, but I keep running into problems. :\
I’m a newbie to Gimpshop, having just downloaded it and brought it up – version 2.2.8. . . . and I just signed up for the blog because I cannot find the “help” routine. After hiting F1, the message says that it should be in \Gimpshop\share\gimp\2.0\help but this folder is nowhere on my machine. Is there a module (file) that I can download, create the \help\ folder and put the file there?
. . . and I see there is a version 2.2.11 – so I guess that I did not download the latest version.
Hi Scott
is there a solution for the missing GUILLOTINE plugin in the meantime? I miss that more and more..
HI
I downloaded gimpshop 2 2 8 fix1 setup exe. I am running windows xp. I install it and follow the instructions to run the bat. Thje program opens fine. However there are no help files. Do I need to download a different file to get the help files.
Thanks.
HI
I downloaded gimpshop 2 2 8 fix1 setup. I followed the instructions and ran the bat.
The program opens fine but I do not have any help files.
Do I need to download something else?
Thanks
Please email me at ldunbar@wildblue.net
ik heb het programma gedownload en nu zou ik hem graag in het Nederlands willen.Is daar een plugin voor te downloaden.
Hello would like to tell you how great Gimpshop is and I really appreciate your greatness
Doing my internship now and I have no access to photoshop, your hack is a life saver! Once again thanks!
And Dittybot is hell cool!
I downloaded and installed GimpShop yessterday to a fresh install of OSX 10.4.6 on a PowerMac G5 2 GHz and 1 GB ram. I did the OS install on an external firewire drive to have a relatively clean system. Only iphoto 6, firefox, open office, techtool and realplayer share the drive with OSX 10.4. I then downoaded
dcamnoise2-0.63-g5
I quit GimpShop
and followed the following note on installing plug ins which I had found
“For the above, ctrl-click its icon, show package contents, and you’ll find the plugins directory as Contents/Resources/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins”
I then restarted GimpShop.
I then noticed that the Image/Filter/enhance
submenu was entirely missing.
The Filter menu goes
Blur
Colors
Noise
edge detect
sharpen
generic
The Plug-In Browser shows the Dcam Noise .0.63 item as being in the enhance menu.
dcmanoise is listed as a document by show info
while the other plug-ins are shown as Unix Executables
If I take out dcmanoise the enhance menu sub item does not come back.
Do you have any suggestions ?
Separate from the dcmanoise issue, it would be nice to have the enhance menu back.
Thanks,
David Gibson
Suddenly, GimpShop does not recognize and therefore does not open any image files at all, not even the one in its “previously opened” selection, a .jpg file. Tried PNG, BMP, TIFF and the same results. Have no problem with any other image program. Using an Itel iMac, OS X 10.4.9, updated x11 – Anybody have any ideas?
I am having the following problem “can’t find help browser”
Library not loaded: /sw/lib/libgtkhtml-2.0.dylib”
Here’s the tail of my
/Users/me/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/helpbrowser.crash.log
————————————————
Date/Time: 2007-04-11 22:00:33.179 -0500
OS Version: 10.4.9 (Build 8P2137)
Report Version: 4
Command: helpbrowser
Path: /Applications/Gimpshop.app/Contents/Resources/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/helpbrowser
Parent: gimp-2.2 [497]
Version: ??? (389)
PID: 531
Thread: Unknown
Link (dyld) error:
Library not loaded: /sw/lib/libgtkhtml-2.0.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/Gimpshop.app/Contents/Resources/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/helpbrowser
Reason: image not found
Hey, I need a program that will allow me to import multiple photos onto a virtual surface and resize/arrange them and then export that collage as a single file… very basic idea no luck with anything… new to photoshop style programs but didnt think i needed user knowledge for those programs to be able to use them, Im not a computer novice but Im not an expert by any means, just to keep in mind. so if you can help me out, please do. Thanks. Fly.
Hi, I was just wondering when a compile of Gimpshop for OS X Leopard will be made available. I am not too happy with the fact that Apple bunged the Leopard version of X11 and at the moment, I am not able to use my Gimsphop at all.
I uninstalled Gimpshop for Windows and then reinstalled it. I then reinstalled Dcamnoise and it worked (on Windows). I will try uninstalling and reinstalling Gimpshop on my Mac and see if it has the same effect.
Thank you.
David
For anyone using the Windows image of the product on the Mac. Have you considered using Crossover and attempting to run the program in one of the bottles? If successful please let me know.
Cheers!