I did a quick look through this post so I'm sorry if I missed this already but is it just me or is the second part of the Filters>Light & Shadow menu missing. Xach Effect, Perspective and Drop Shadow. I use these all the time.

Partha, not sure what a compiled script is, and I haven't gotten around to putting any plug-ins as yet.

Hi Partha,

Speed difference that i mentioned a few posts back was unfounded, it must have been another process running at the same time.

Went for a clean restart with both and no discernable difference.

Regards

Sam

Probably me (though I am not sure how, ). I will check this out.

Thanks Sam for reporting back!!

As an fyi, I had done a speed check on a D800 sample jpeg image with Gegl operations and my Mac was very fast in rendering c2g, gaussian-blur etc.

I just checked. They show up on my Filter menu just fine.

lol figures ok hmmmm I haven't messed with anything other than installing the APNG and brushes and fonts... The two scripts I couldnt get to work I took out but haven't touched anything else... I wonder why it would do that.. Thanks for the reply Partha.

Please check to make sure you don't have any scripts that are somehow interfering with the builtin scripts.

I checked the only things added in now are the APNG files/folders and the brushes and fonts. I need to finish some stuff up tonight but tomorrow I will try reinstalling or something. Thanks Partha.

@Partha....sorry hadn't been able to do much lately. Reading a post just now got me going to run my own check on a D800 sample pick with GEGL. Before you had requested but I just didn't know which one would be comparable to the Ellipisionism (sp) filter in the Artistic folder of G'Mic. Anywhoooo...Ran it with C2G and completed in a few minutes, I'd say roughly 3 mins time. Not sure I did it right, I saw the first few blocks of the prewiew start to draw and I clicked on "ok".

The next test was on Gaussian Blur...that was completed earlier. This time I just let it finish the preview. I was expecting the image to revert and get drawn again ( due to seeing done in G'Mic all the time ) but was nice to see that the image just stayed as it was after the "preview" was finished.

On whim, went back to the C2G operation and tried it again without prematurely hitting "ok" button. Seemed to complete faster. Double-checked it again my hitting the "ok" in early stages of "preview". It was the same amount of time. This time I put stop watch to it...just about 2 mins.

(I apologize about the length of roughness of this post. I just simply reporting as i do things as I do them, I won't be editing myself. Which could be humorous as I would appear I am learning how to make fire. Compared to others on this site, I think my knowledge is pre-historic.)

I did a Color-Temperature correction...that was real zippy...went from the original to a cooler temp..bathed the scene in blure light in well under 30sec. Very zippy compared to C2G.

I am now doing a Difference-Gausian filter in Gegl. The default was fairly zippy about the same timing as the color temp filter. But I didn't time it. For grins, I slide the Route 1 slider to 214.?? and let it redraw...this was taking awhile but with some more interesting results than the default. I had forgotten to time it...so I canx out of it to restart it. That took about a minute to recover from the canx operation. Then I select the Gelg menu again...seemed to take longer for the menu to appear.

Soooo...it takes awhile longer for the new settings. At about 6mins into it, it is more than 3/4 done. I absent-mindely come back to this entry to report on time. I realize I have stolen the focus of program and then switch back. It was nice to see I could switch between the programs even tho it seems sluggish doing so. Came back to Gimp window and the same 1/4 or less part of the frame has not moved. 8 mins into it...I figure I really messed it up by switching in mid-preview and decided it probably just needs more time. At 19mins, I decided just too darn long...I've messed it up and will do it again but not steal focus this time. I go to abort the program, and the finder "abort" window takes long time...about 30sec to appear. When it does, I give it just a little more time. Part of the drawn image goes alpha or checkboard on me but then suddenly appears completed! 20 mins time moreorless. The hard drive is still thrashing about some, and that finally stops in about 2 mins.

Came back here to write and switching programs very sluggish as well as just typing..so something like a swap file? really messed up my OS on a external harddrive hackiness. Going to redo this whole operation again but can't now. If you like to try my settings on the exact same pic...

1. Gegl
2. Difference - Gaussian
3. Route 1 @ 214.10
4. Route 2 @ 2.000 default
5. The pic was the first sample pic on D800 nikon's website, the pic of the library.


later

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