Introduction with question

[Signman2025]

Hello everyone!  I'm new to Gimp!  Been using Corel Draw for over 20 years now and am retired from the graphics field. I'll be 70 in July so be gentle with me please! I'd like to get to know how to use Gimp to pass my time and have been watching videos on how to do things.  I'm very excited to try my luck with Gimp.  I've started by downloading Gimp 3.0.2 and wanted the G'mic and Resynthisizer plugins too.  Well That didn't go to well. I'm not sure if these are compatible.  Neither plugin works on my Windows 11 PC running a Intel Ultra 9 processor with 32 gig of ram.  I've followed the videos from downloading to installing and everything seems to go well but when I try to access the plugins they are not there in filters. Soooo, I'm here to learn as much as I can from all of you.  Please don't yell at me for posting this if it is in the wrong place...just point me in the right direction please.  Thanks Robbie

[Ofnuts]

The plugin interface has changed between Gimp 2.10 and Gimp3. Most plugins written for 2.10 have to be converted to work with Gimp3, so when you download things if they don't explicitly state Gimp3 support, they are probably meant for v2.

There are Gimp3 versions of GMIC and resynthesize.

[rich2005]

@Signman2025

To get you started.

The Gimp gmic plugin is straight forward. On the gmic download page there is a section for Gimp3 Get the installer. https://www.gmic.eu/download.html    
Which at the moment is the file gmic_3.5.4_gimp3.0_win64.exe  about 40 MB

When you run the installer, it is worth noting the installation folder, that is where your plugins go.
It is a hidden folder, C:\Users\"yourname"\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\3.0\plug-ins

   

Resynthesizer is more hands on. The Window version for Gimp 3.0 comes from gimpchat.com but the required files I have zipped and attached.  Unzip and put in the same folder as gmic. With Gimp 3.0 plugins go in their own folders. The installations looks like this:

   

I have checked and they do work. Win11 / Gimp 3.0.2-1

[Signman2025]

(10 hours ago)rich2005 Wrote: @Signman2025

To get you started.

The Gimp gmic plugin is straight forward. On the gmic download page there is a section for Gimp3 Get the installer. https://www.gmic.eu/download.html    
Which at the moment is the file gmic_3.5.4_gimp3.0_win64.exe  about 40 MB

When you run the installer, it is worth noting the installation folder, that is where your plugins go.
It is a hidden folder, C:\Users\"yourname"\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\3.0\plug-ins



Resynthesizer is more hands on. The Window version for Gimp 3.0 comes from gimpchat.com but the required files I have zipped and attached.  Unzip and put in the same folder as gmic. With Gimp 3.0 plugins go in their own folders. The installations looks like this:



I have checked and they do work. Win11 / Gimp 3.0.2-1

Thanks so much for your replies.  I have done that and upon restarting Gimp I get an error that it is looking for the libgimp-3.0-0.dll file then throws a code (0xc0000022).  I'll try reinstalling Gimp and see if that helps.

[rich2005]

(5 hours ago)Signman2025 Wrote: Thanks so much for your replies.  I have done that and upon restarting Gimp I get an error that it is looking for the libgimp-3.0-0.dll file then throws a code (0xc0000022).  I'll try reinstalling Gimp and see if that helps.

That looks like the error you get installing installing the gmic_gimp_qt for Gimp 3.0 in a Gimp 2.10 installation.
see; http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=...a3#p296273

There are different plugins for Gimp 3.0 and Gimp 2.10.x It is not a problem if you want to use Gimp 2.10 - I use it all the time