Re: [Gimp-user] gimp newbie and sharpening an image in gimp.

[Partha Bagchi <partha1b gmail com>]

Change the last line to: "<Image>/Filters/BP"

On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 10:31 AM, shirish शिरीष <shirishag75 gmail com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Newbie here as far as gimp is concerned. Please CC me if somebody
> answers as I've turned off mail for the list as I am info. overloaded.
>
> Before jumping in - let me give some background.
>
> I am on Debian buster and running gimp 2.8.20-1.1
>
>  apt-cache policy gimp
> gimp:
>   Installed: 2.8.20-1.1
>   Candidate: 2.8.20-1.1
>   Version table:
>  *** 2.8.20-1.1 900
>         900 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages
>           1 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64
> Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
>
> I have a bunch of images that I want to sharpen. I was trying to get a
> way to sharpen images but got this somewhat oldish script for doing
> that -
>
> https://twentymegahertz.wordpress.com/2017/01/05/gimp-
> script-for-image-sharpening-using-grain-extract/
>
> I copied the script as it is and renamed it as
> gimp-sharpen-grain-extract.scm . I was unsure as to what the extension
> for the scheme interpreter should be but then saw
> https://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/gimp-scripting.html
>
> and specifically https://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/install-script-fu.html
> and saw that there are two places where scripts can be put.
>
> a. /home/shirish/.gimp-2.8/scripts - user
> b. /usr/share/gimp/2.0/scripts - global .
>
> I copied the script to my userspace -
>
> /home/shirish> cp gimp-sharpen-grain-extract.scm ~/.gimp-2.8/scripts
>
> Trying to run gimp, gimp runs but the script doesn't work - it says
>
> /home/shirish> gimp
>
> (gimp:7249): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: g_object_set_is_valid_property:
> object class 'GeglConfig' has no property named 'cache-size'
> GIMP-Error: Plug-In "none"
> (none)
> attempted to install procedure "script-fu-bp-sharpen-grain-extract"
> in the invalid menu location "/Filters/BP".
> The menu path must look like either "<Prefix>" or "<Prefix>/path/to/item".
>
> It is possible that the script itself is wrong or some path has
> changed or something, can somebody guide me to do the right thing or
> right way ?
>
> I find the manual instructions tedious to say the least. I want to
> have some automated ways of doing that.
>
> What I usually do is take snaps of events via my mobile phone, copy
> them to my hdd in a particular directory and from there run
>
> mogrify -path /home/shirish/another_directory/ -monitor   -quality 70
> -trim  -resize '>'600x400 *.jpg
>
> This way the original photos/pictures/images are not touched and the
> ones which are there in the other/output directory are ones which are
> web-size friendly.
>
> Now the images themselves become a bit dull, see
> https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2018/01/25/pune-metro-anniversary-
> celebrations-report-and-suggestions/
> for examples of pictures.
>
> I want to sharpen the images a bit but am confused how to proceed for it.
>
> If the script can be fixed, please help me with that. If there is some
> other way/other solution which could help enhance the quality of the
> photos. I am a click them kind of photographer, not a professional or
> even an amateur by any standards.
>
> Look forward to either help in the script or some simple ways I could
> enhance (maybe using some filter or something).
>
> --
>           Regards,
>           Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल
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