On Fri, 2019-01-25 at 18:35 +0000, Tawney Carrier via gimp-user-list wrote:

I am trying to add the beautify filter to my GIMP. I have visited several sites who all have different methods. None seem to work for me. Why aren't these filters just included in the download, instead of being a "plug-in" add/on feature?

There are probably tens of thousands of GIMP add-ons; we could not possibly include them all.

Can someone provide accurate information as to effectively installing the feature?

It depends on what you want it to do exactly.

it also depends on which Linux distribution you're running (or Windows or Mac, or something else?) but usually involves adding a script to the script folder that you've got set up in Preferences; if you're using GIMP 2.10 some older scripts might no longer work, but you'd have to say which one exactly, and whether you're getting errors or can't find it in the menus or it's greyed out or you try to run it and it doesn't work, or it introduces pimples and wrinkles and makes the subject ugly instead of beautiful, i really can't guess from your description.

Liam (ankh)

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On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 16:21:12 -0500 Liam R E Quin wrote:

On Fri, 2019-01-25 at 18:35 +0000, Tawney Carrier via gimp-user-list wrote:

I am trying to add the beautify filter to my GIMP. I have visited several sites who all have different methods. None seem to work for me. Why aren't these filters just included in the download, instead of being a "plug-in" add/on feature?

There are probably tens of thousands of GIMP add-ons; we could not possibly include them all.

Can someone provide accurate information as to effectively installing the feature?

It depends on what you want it to do exactly.

it also depends on which Linux distribution you're running (or Windows or Mac, or something else?) but usually involves adding a script to the script folder that you've got set up in Preferences; if you're using GIMP 2.10 some older scripts might no longer work, but you'd have to say which one exactly, and whether you're getting errors or can't find it in the menus or it's greyed out or you try to run it and it doesn't work, or it introduces pimples and wrinkles and makes the subject ugly instead of beautiful, i really can't guess from your description.

Liam (ankh)

I think he want a https://github.com/hejiann/beautify which work on my FreeBSD.

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On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 9:35 PM Tawney Carrier wrote:

I am trying to add the beautify filter to my GIMP. I have visited several sites who all have different methods. None seem to work for me. Why aren't these filters just included in the download, instead of being a "plug-in" add/on feature?

As Liam already mentioned, there are too many potentially useful plug-ins out there to include. We've been working towards simplified installation though.

As for the particular plug-in in question, in the past, it caused some curious outrage:

https://twitter.com/dymaxion/status/495382826372853761

https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/09/20/beauty-white-photo-editing-software-edition/

It's not like we need more of that, right?

Alex