good work mahvin. thank you!

You're welcome!

Yes
most simple way to create that file may be just fave a filter
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I just finished a new version of Graphic Boost, so i will start a new topic

this time i did my test on 5 very different kind of images,
just to clear as a beauty treatment for a Lion face may do havoc on a young girl skin ( your models may beat you, if they didn't ask for a Halloween style make up) and even vice versa:

1 close up of feminine models ( NB in general the less adapt subject for that filter,
The filter may be very rough , even devastating on light uniform areas as uniform or bleached sky and smooth skin but there are exceptions
2 environmental portrait (usually they come out well)
3 Nature and wildlife
4 Car & Old Car
5 Urban scenery

I can't resist to show an example, a soft painting preset for Graphic Boost

used on "Wildlife"



and "Urban"
original by Pranav (i should trace the link)

Great tutorial man, very helpful Now I know what to do lol

K, any mac experts? Need the directions for osx

should be identical is only needed find the corresponding path

I think you may do easily

1) open gmic and made a filter update (to be sure to have the file to search )
2) open Finder to search ".gmic_def.1472 " note the dot before the name.
now go in Finder "Options" and there enable visualization and search of hidden and system files

Sure Mac users may be more accurate in details, but once you allow visualization and search of hidden files you should find easily where is that file

And in that is the place also for the .gmic and the gmic.faves files

finder for hard drive...can't find gmic to open and when I put gmic into finder, all that comes up is a photo that I used gmic on.
finder for my home...gmic is in my gimp but only brings up the .exe file, and there is nothing on how to update

2-ton, is G'MIC installed for GIMP? Do you see G'MIC in your Filters menu?

gmic is installed for gimp, in fact, the gmic file is not .gmic, it is gmic_gimp

K, just figured out how to take a screen shot with osx...so much I don't know yet!

@2-ton,
That is the plug-in.

@mahvin,
It may be something in my settings, but I don't need Administrator privileges to open or save .gmic. (LinuxMint9/Ubuntu10.10).

Do you mean the plugin is called gmic_gimp
You can't have yet any file called .gmic yet, must be created

But you may check if you found the right place refreshing the gmic filter, that will create (as i wrote before) a new file called .gmic_def.1472

we will do nothing to that .gmic_def.1472 but the point is that indicate the place where add the .gmic file

added screen shot on last post...so if that is my gmic, how do I update? do I add a .gmic folder somewhere? Sorry for all the questions...I'm sort of lost on the mac still.

Let's start from the top:

2-ton: open GIMP, open an image, and then run G'MIC. Then on the G'MIC interface, click refresh.

Now do a find for your version of G'MIC (this will show on the top menu bar of G'MIC when called from GIMP Filters menu. It will create a definition file named .gmic_def.xxxx (xxxx=your version of G'MIC). Do a find for .gmic_defxxx after you refresh G'MIC.

P.S. Your screenshots aren't displaying for me.

no.
I get up to refreshing gmic, and then I put G'MIC 1.4.7.0 in the finder search and nothing comes up. Let me rephrase that, I searched .gmic_def.1470
also I have preferences set up to show all extensions, supposedly that is the same as showing hidden files
*scratches head*

You are using the wrong search criteria

Try searching for .gimp_def.1470 instead (this is a hidden file, so you may need to make it so that your folders display hidden files. I dont know how macs are set up for hidden files)

ghost posting, lol. I'm gonna go help dh clean the basement...and hopefully later I can figure this out. At least the gmic I have now works great!

A little something about viewing hidden files on a mac here:

http://www.mactricksandtips.com/2008/03 ... -pane.html

I found this interesting bit at G'MIC Flickr, for using custom filters with Mac:

the link here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/gmic/discu ... 086492694/

Forest (GKweb.it) says:

How to add custom filters?

As a reference, I explain shortly here how to install custom-made new filters which appear now and then in this Flickr group and are not included with the standard G'MIC distribution.
-Download the filter: it will appear as a text.
-Copy the text into a plain text file and save it with the name ".gmic" in the User Home folder. It will be loaded the next time you use G'MIC.

The problem is that on Mac OSX the files with a name beginning with a dot are usually used by the System and always kept invisible, and the user is normally prevented from editing them and from creating them manually (programs can create them automatically, anyway).
If you try to save a file with a name beginning with a dot, an alert appears suggesting you not to do so ("Filenames beginning with a dot are used by the System, choose another name").

Anyway, on Mac OSX, these files can be produced, saved, opened and edited with programs like BBEdit Lite (a text editor for programmers, from http://www.barebones.com/) and with other specialized text editors (BBEdit has also a special menu item "Open Hidden…" to edit them) and with any text utility which can find and open hidden "invisible" files (those with the names beginning with a dot).
The .gmic file (as well as the ".gmic_def" and the ".gmic_faves" files, created automatically by G'MIC), once created, is really in the User Home directory (folder) and this method works well.

You can also use (for example) Tex-Edit Plus (from http://www.tex-edit.com/ ) instead of BBEdit to create, open, edit and save the "invisible" files (in Tex-Edit Plus, if you press the "option" key before you choose "Open" it becomes "Open as text…" and you can see and open also the invisible files).

tbh, it's pretty much over my head for now. I will just use gmic as it is for a while, then when I have learned more of osx, I can figure it out.

to summarize :
the file is hidden

to see (read ,open ,edit or create ) hidden files you may use the "Open Hidden…" option of a this text editor for Mac
BBEdit Lite http://www.barebones.com/
P.S
Tomorrow i may use a bit a MAC i may try to see if and where is a option to show hidden files, in case you didn't solve yet