3 hours ago
That was a great help.
It's now 1/2026, and there is still a serious lack of help and tutorials for gimp 3 plugins. I guess this is partly because of the transition and major changes from gimp 2 to gimp 3. There's not much knowledge about - though please prove me wrong, and those who have it are probably busy on other things.
I'm pretty new to gimp - used it for tweaking a few images in the past and that's it, and whilst I have a lot of s/w design experience, absolutely none of it was python which I looked at for the first time last week. I did, a long time ago, write some VB automation stuff for driving Photoshop, but the similarity is zero.
There is documentation in the form of auto generated stuff, but, whilst that is useful in its place, it just describes the bits, not how the bits hang together as a system. For a beginner on this like me, that overall picture of architecture and structure is what I don't have.
I don't think it's reasonable to expect gimp developers to down tools and write loads of documents - they won't, anyway - so as far as I can see the only way to shed more light is for people like us to publish bits of code here and there, asking questions and for comments. Gradually knowledge may increase.
Cannot contribute much myself at the moment - I haven't got anything to work so far. I do have a shell plugin that registers, runs and pops up a dialog, but that's it - doesn't do anything else yet. It's supposed to load images one by one, make some changes, and write them out elsewhere as JPEGs - if only I can figure out how to open an image file, display it and write it out and discard it again. I can add that if it helps.
It's now 1/2026, and there is still a serious lack of help and tutorials for gimp 3 plugins. I guess this is partly because of the transition and major changes from gimp 2 to gimp 3. There's not much knowledge about - though please prove me wrong, and those who have it are probably busy on other things.
I'm pretty new to gimp - used it for tweaking a few images in the past and that's it, and whilst I have a lot of s/w design experience, absolutely none of it was python which I looked at for the first time last week. I did, a long time ago, write some VB automation stuff for driving Photoshop, but the similarity is zero.
There is documentation in the form of auto generated stuff, but, whilst that is useful in its place, it just describes the bits, not how the bits hang together as a system. For a beginner on this like me, that overall picture of architecture and structure is what I don't have.
I don't think it's reasonable to expect gimp developers to down tools and write loads of documents - they won't, anyway - so as far as I can see the only way to shed more light is for people like us to publish bits of code here and there, asking questions and for comments. Gradually knowledge may increase.
Cannot contribute much myself at the moment - I haven't got anything to work so far. I do have a shell plugin that registers, runs and pops up a dialog, but that's it - doesn't do anything else yet. It's supposed to load images one by one, make some changes, and write them out elsewhere as JPEGs - if only I can figure out how to open an image file, display it and write it out and discard it again. I can add that if it helps.