bkh1914: Is that PM's tutorial, it's not related to mine.

akky:


Did you find a .gmic file in the same location? No? Then you have to create one, but....

Someone else who uses a Mac had problems saving the file without an extension. Since I don't know anything about Macs, I can't advise, but what I do know is that the file cannot be saved with an extension, or G'MIC wont be able to read it.

Once you manage to create a new .gmic file with the code added, G'MIC should find it and have the filter available at the top of the menu.

No, PM's tutorial is flip and rotate.
I'm just wondering why you need to use G'MIC when GIMP already contains everything you need to easily create seamless plaid patterns.

That's like asking why is there more than one make of car...

Do you have something personal against G'MIC or scripts and plug-ins? I'm confused, I can't tell if your hostile or you find discovery outside of GIMP to be insulting. I am clueless, please explain...

Well..I tried to create the rotate 'my first filter' I bombed. I have no idea what i did or did not do right. I also was looking through the gmic filters and seen the additional filters under the about and tried to add those by clicking apply and then refresh. Nothing, nada, zippo... I am sure I am missing something i tried to follow the tutorial for creating 'My first filter' but got totally lost. I have to admit I totally do not get the .gmic file i need to create. Is it a folder i need to create in gmic? or is it some kind of file with the extension .gmic?

I have my gimic folder with everything in it in my plugins folder of gimp 2.6 not the gimp 2.0 folder. For the most part gmic works for me except adding new filters and creating this one.

I am going to take a break before I get to frustrated. I hate being a newby so many things at times i just don't get and can't see the steps I might be missing.

I did create a few more plaids i did not rotate them though but i did make them into small tiles. i named them after the pictures I used to create them.

Liana

ok... so the last parts of my file look like this:



so I can put this new filter Right under the End of Filter and before the End of Directory.

Cecilia, akky, and Lianam:

Try this file attached below. Open it, and look at it first, so you can see how its written.

Then place the "extracted" file into the same folder/location as your .gmic_def.xxxx file.

You will need to extract the file from the zip, and it will need to be where G'MIC can see it.

Don't bother/open/or edit the .gmic_def.xxxx file, its for other purposes.

Lianam, I didn't invent G'MIC so the whys and why fors are beyond me, but once the light comes on (as it did for most of us) then we look back and wonder why we made things so complicated. It's that initial hurdle we have to get over being new to something we aren't familiar with.

Akky: We'll get there as long as you're willing to keep trying.

Cecilia: You could place the filter anywhere on the file as long as you don't paste it where it breaks another filter. Most people just start a whole new filter at the end. The only reason the ###start### and #####end##### is for authors to keep their filter list neat and tidy, separating the filters for convenience.

This is just a snippet (portion) of my .gmic file. Just to give you an idea of what it looks like with a few filters in it.

who is David? and where can I find the filter

LOL at me catching up...ok I see this text here but I cannot save it as anything other than a text file of some sort...it is either rtf or doc or txt. As I understand it none of those will work. Please correct me if I am wrong...it seems to me that Snow Leopard just will not let me do it.

David created G'MIC and its under his Ronounours folder in the G'MIC menu.

Somewhere on Gimp Chat is instructions for activating these testing folders.

Akky: Again, I don't use a Mac, so I can't advise. You cannot save this file as a txt or doc or rtf. It has to be saved strictly as .gmic

I thought this discussion was already covered elsewhere on Gimp Chat or on G'MIC Flickr.

ok I'll see if I can find it thank you...Its ok that you dont use a mac...well it is but ya know....LOL ....and I am annoyingly persistent with this...but I appreciate everything you are doing to help me

I'm ok weith getting GIMP to recognise GMIC etc and have written a little thing about it but its the extra bits I dont get.

ok, this is what I made following the instructions.

quite interesting!!

Akky: I understand, we all went through the little bits and not everyone did it easy peasy. Heck I think some of us, myself included, still get confused by the little things.

I need to find a USED Mac somewhere and use it strictly to help Mac users. It's tough not being able to explain or help people, because I don't know how to advise them. Drives me nuts.

David told me that if you saved a filter as a Fave, it will create the .gmic file. I am assuming, this works for Macs as well.

Good job, Cecilia!

Lianam: Have you tried to save a filter as a fave in G'MIC? David said it will create the .gmic file (see comment above).

Ok back!! I drive myself nuts sooo..

Anyways, some how my applications data folder was totally hidden. Good thing my partner's was not. I found the .gmic_def.1843 file and I placed your folder you so kindly gave us into the applications data folder. I opened gimp and gmic and refreshed my filters to avail I got nada again. Something is just not right.

I will keep trying. I am a stickler for details why I struggled rewiring my tractor but it is done! Thanks for your help you so willing give Mahvin I do appreciate it.

Liana

Lianam: extract the file from the zip into the appdata folder location. It won't work still in a zip.

It was extracted. Heck I even downloaded it again to the application data folder and extracted it again it still does not show up in gmic.

Liana

Hmmmmm... Did you try saving a filter as a fave in G'MIC? David said it automatically creates a .gmic file. And if it does, then you could just copy/paste the code into "that" file and see if it works.

My apologies.
I was just trying to point out a simpler method. I probably should have posted it in a new thread.
Nothing against G'MIC, it's just that people always seem to have trouble with it. But that's part of the learning curve.
Peace...

Well I have not knowingly placed a filter in the favs but I do have filters in that file I have no idea how they got there. I will post a screen shot of my GMIC and see if it sheds some light.

Liana