GIMP is a fantastic image editor that rivals Photoshop itself, offering similar and professional tools. So much so that some professionals have chosen to use this program as a viable alternative to Photoshop, even on Windows and other platforms. In addition to its flexibility and power, GIMP also has another advantage: it's free and open-source, unlike the expensive licenses typically required by its proprietary competitors.
Another advantage of GIMP is that its capabilities can be extended beyond its default features. This is because extensions, plugins, filters for more effects, and artistic brushes can be added. To do this, we can install or compile all these available tools, as I will explain in this article, once GIMP is installed on our system.
Assuming you already have GIMP installed on your system, which you can do by downloading and installing the latest version from the project's official website or by using your distribution's package manager to easily install the version available in the repositories. Once installed, to add extensions/plugins from the repositories , you can do the following (depending on your distribution, use one of these commands):
<br data-mce-bogus="1"> sudo apt-get install gimp-plugin-registry<br data-mce-bogus="1"> sudo yum install gimpfx-foundry<br data-mce-bogus="1"> sudo dnf install gimpfx-foundry<br data-mce-bogus="1">
However, if we want to compile, we will need to have a series of dependencies installed, such as for Debian and derivatives:
<br data-mce-bogus="1"> sudo apt-get install build-essential libgimp2.0-dev git<br data-mce-bogus="1">
And for CentoOS / RHEL and derivatives:
sudo yum group install "Development Tools" gimp-devel git
And then, whatever the distro, we must clone the git repository, for example, for this case:
<br data-mce-bogus="1"> git clone https://github.com/nombre/del/proyecto/en/git.git<br data-mce-bogus="1"> cd nombre-directorio-clonado<br data-mce-bogus="1"> make<br data-mce-bogus="1"> make userinstall <br data-mce-bogus="1"> sudo make install<br data-mce-bogus="1">
As for the textures , we can also obtain them by following these steps…:
<br data-mce-bogus="1"> cd /tmp/<br data-mce-bogus="1"> wget https://github.com/nombre/dirección/textura/nombre.tar.bz cd ~/.gimp-*/ tar xvf /tmp/nombre.tar.bz
And once unpacked, you must go to GIMP and from the Filters menu, you can access it.