Comments on: Deep Dive Special : Building a Stable Open-Source Photography Toolkit – The Pitfalls of GIMP 3 and Friends/2025/04/10/deep-dive-special-building-a-stable-open-source-photography-toolkit-the-pitfalls-of-gimp-3-and-friends/Sat, 12 Apr 2025 06:01:29 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Bushcrafter/2025/04/10/deep-dive-special-building-a-stable-open-source-photography-toolkit-the-pitfalls-of-gimp-3-and-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-3740Sat, 12 Apr 2025 06:01:29 +0000/?p=19361#comment-3740In reply to Barrie8.

Hello Barrie,
I think using the GIMP 2.10.25 version is a wise decision. I’ve already come across some early developments on forums for the Resynthesizer plugin and even for Nik filters in GIMP, all intended for GIMP 3 – but, as the admins there also note, these are mostly small ‘home’ projects that are untested and potentially risky.
And then there’s the issue with Snap, Flatpak, and AppImage, which often don’t allow these kinds of plugins to work properly – unless you’re on Windows, of course.
In any case, I see no reason not to just stick with a 2.x version for now – they work well, and so do the results.

Thanks for commenting, Barrie! Have a great weekend.
Marc.

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]]>By: Barrie8/2025/04/10/deep-dive-special-building-a-stable-open-source-photography-toolkit-the-pitfalls-of-gimp-3-and-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-3739Fri, 11 Apr 2025 20:35:38 +0000/?p=19361#comment-3739i use gimp 2.10.25 the version with python support. I used chatgpt successfully to fix one my fav filters; nat geographic. I tried a couple of others that were not working but failed. I think if I perserved with chatgpt or other alternatives I may have got further. Im waiting the plugin issues to get fixed befored I wade into gimp3.2 though. There needs to be somewhere to put all these plugins, some have not been looked at for over 25 years. Previous registry attempts have failed. Shame because gimp is known for it’s wide variety of scripts and plugins.

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