GIMP Plugin Faves - GreycLab/gmic-community GitHub Wiki

The G'MIC for GIMP plug-in allows you to save personal favourites and give them names.

see picture

The 'Faves' button is either a "star" or a "plus" depending whether you've selected a filter.

You can use this for:

Remembering Filters

  • Faves are like a bookmark. The plug-in menu contains many filters arranged in folders, so by putting the commonly used ones into 'Faves' makes them quicker to access and easier to find.

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. select the filter

  2. choose the settings

  3. press the add button .. (+) see red arrow in picture

  4. double click to rename it

  • Once you create a Fave it appears in the top folder .. see blue arrow in picture

Favourite Pre-sets

  • GIMP will only remember one set of "last-used" values for a single plug-in. This means it would forget the pre-sets for a particular filter inside G'MIC once you select a different one. Faves are different, they are permanently stored in your personal folder and will not be re-set by GIMP even with "Reset All Filters".

e.g. You an keep multiple pre-sets for the same Filter function and given them different names.

Sharing Settings

  • The Fave information is stored in a simple text file, 'gmic_faves' in the User's personal directory. Copying that file could be used to share such pre-sets or you may want to delete it if this becomes corrupted. If you have read this far you probably want to look at making your own custom code [How to create a custom filter in the G’mic plug-in] tutorial by Zonderr.