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Improve Your Photos with the Heal Selection Gimp Plugin for Mac



You can access the Resynthesizer plugin for MAC via this link (it will take you to the GitHub page where the file download is located). I recommend following my instructions in the remainder of this article to see how to download and install the plugin properly (and save yourself some frustration).


The 'some plugins already included approach: download a binary from Partha, Photography and Related Musings. Does not include the resynthesizer plugin itself but has recent builds against which building the plugin itself is a bit easier. Latest builds available. Currently at McGimp 2.10.8 Standard Edition (2019).




Heal Selection Gimp Plugin Download Mac



Using Homebrew you can run brew cask install lisanet-gimp to get a version of GIMP with some parts of the resynthesizer ready to go, including the most important Filters > Enhance > Heal selection. This suffers from the same problem as the lisanet offerings in @LangLangC's answer: it is out of date. For example, there is no support for .HEIF files.


There are now prebuilt Mac versions of the Resynthesizer and other plugins available at -plugins-collection/releases/tag/continuous. There is a thorough tutorial on how to install the files from this site here.In short you download the current version of the plug-in (currently ResynthesizerPlugin-Gimp-2.10-osx.tgz), extract it, and put the extracted files in your plug-ins directory, which may be inside your application bundle. (/Applications/GIMP-2.10.app/Contents/Resources/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins)


Gimp update 2.9.22 update promptly deleted any signs of "Resynthesizer"; healing is gone.As a plugin, the Mac version is not available because it is part of some modified version. I believe mine was McGimp.Downloaded McGimp (2.9.7), it's not included.I looked and saw no early versions of any custom modifications stating it was included. libregraphicsworld.org: nothing.


Second, after you put any .py in the plugin folder you have to "turn it on". Mac does this to protect you. Open Terminal and go to the folder where the plugin is, then type "chmod u+x " This will give the plugin execute rights. For example "chmod u+x plugin-heal-selection.py". Then start Gimp and it should be there!


If your GIMP plugin is in a ZIP file, you'll need to copy the contents to GIMP's Plugins and Scripts folders. Make sure that the downloaded plugin has been unzipped before continuing.


Can't GIMP already do this? Yes, but not very well. The Duplicate to Another Image plugin lets you copy a selection onto a new image scaled to the same size as your original, keeping the object in the same place.


Step 5: Now, resynthesizer is ready to use by the options from Filters > map, Filters >render and Filters > enhance. Then choose the desired functions like heal transparency, heal selection, texture, style, uncrop etc.


If there is a strong contrast at the edges of the area you want to heal, make a selection before you use the Healing Brush tool. The selection should be bigger than the area you want to heal and precisely follow the boundary of contrasting pixels. When you paint with the Healing Brush tool, the selection prevents colors from bleeding in from the outside.


System-wide script-fu scripts are stored in /Applications/GIMP.app/Contents/Resources/share/gimp/2.0/scripts/. Executable and python plugins are located in /Applications/GIMP.app/Contents/Resources/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/ 2ff7e9595c


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