NEWS GIMP 2.10 and GIMP 3 plugins can co-exist again.

GIMP's lead dev Jehan solved a crash on GIMP's side which means GEGL Effects continual no longer crashes on close in GIMP 3. The Gimp 3 bunker repo has been removed, it isn't needed anymore.

The latest version of GEGL Effects is October 13 2024 Stable which is based on the July 22 2023 checkpoint. No new features were added but text clipping is gone since March 2024 and GEGL Effects now works on "layer groups" in Gimp 2.99.19 as of October 13 2024.

Downloadable binaries for Windows and Linux is here

https://github.com/LinuxBeaver/GEGL-Effects---Layer-Effects-in-Gimp-using-GEGL/releases/

Preview of GEGL Effects

GEGL Effects CE by Beaver

GEGL effects CE is a GEGL Gimp plugin that does layer effects/text styling in Gimp. Allowing users to make all their favorite text styles. GEGL Effects CE ships with and requires three bonus filters, and two hidden operations. You will find that gegl:bevel, gegl:innerglow and gegl:glassovertext are more useful on their own as they have more options in stand alone.

Instructions

If you choose not to use prebuilt binaries. You must compile innerglow, glassovertext, zzstrokebevelimage, bevel and gegleffectscontinual and put the .so/dll files in gegl-0.4/plug-ins. Then restart Gimp and go to Gimp's GEGL operations. You can effortlessly compile just by clicking on the sh file respectively for Windows (mysys2) or Linux

About GEGL Effects CE

In the early days this was the experimental version of GEGL Effects before becoming the default. Now this is a stable version of GEGL Effects that can co-exist with a designated old version of GEGL Effects (that I recommend people ignore). Presets from said old GEGL Effects will not work with this version. You can find old stable here. https://github.com/LinuxBeaver/GEGL-Effects---Layer-Effects-in-Gimp-using-GEGL/tree/main

Example of plugin working alongside a special legacy version of GEGL Effects as seen here.

When you download the plugin or compile the following co-plugins will ship with it as either binaries or .c files, - GEGL InnerGlow, GEGL Bevel, GEGL Glass On Text, and GEGL zzstrokebevelimage. The plugin will not work correctly without them and all normal download methods will give you all five binaries.

Directories to put binaries and info

.dll is for Windows and .so is for Linux

Windows C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\gegl-0.4\plug-ins

Windows Alt C:\Users\AppData\Local\gegl-0.4\plug-ins

Linux ~/.local/share/gegl-0.4/plug-ins

Linux (Flatpak) ~/.var/app/org.gimp.GIMP/data/gegl-0.4/plug-ins

*note - Windows users may need to create the plug-ins folder if it doesn't exist. But this may be an indication you are using an old version of GIMP 2.10.

Compiling and Installing

./build_plugin_linux.sh and ./build_plugin_windows.sh with mysys2 should auto compile GEGL Effects and many other plugins of mine but if you want to know what the bash script is doing read below.

Linux

To compile and install you will need the GEGL header files (libgegl-dev on Debian based distributions or gegl on Arch Linux) and meson (meson on most distributions).

meson setup --buildtype=release build
ninja -C build

If you have an older version of gegl you may need to copy to ~/.local/share/gegl-0.3/plug-ins instead (on Ubuntu 18.04 for example).

Windows

The easiest way to compile this project on Windows is by using msys2. Download and install it from here: https://www.msys2.org/

Open a msys2 terminal with C:\msys64\mingw64.exe. Run the following to install required build dependencies:

pacman --noconfirm -S base-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain mingw-w64-x86_64-meson mingw-w64-x86_64-gegl

Then build the same way you would on Linux:

meson setup --buildtype=release build
ninja -C build

Notes about using GEGL Effects on 2.10 vs GIMP 2.99/3

Gimp 2.10 users are expected to first layer to image size then open GEGL Operations and apply GEGL Effects Continual. GIMP 2.99.19/GIMP3+ users can just type in GEGL Effects or go to filters>text styling and edit text live.

Guide on how to use GEGL Effects

This tutorial contains everything you need.

https://github.com/LinuxBeaver/Gimp_Layer_Effects_Text_Styler_Plugin_GEGL_Effects/blob/ContinualEdition/Help_Documents_for_GEGL_Effects_here/GEGL_Effects_guide_final.pdf

Picture gallery of GEGL Effects

Inner Glow Bevel and Glass Over text, the stand alone co-plugins

Inner Glow

Bevel

Glass on Text

Downgrading to older versions of my plugins

I strongly advise against downgrading. But if you choose to downgrade GEGL Effects or any of my plugins that has a GEGL Enum List (blend mode switchers) to an earlier version, you must go to /config/GIMP/2.10/filters and delete the saved settings file associate with the plugin. You can find it by searching the plugins name, If this is not done it will keep reporting that a file is corrupt and not allow you to make presets.** MULTIPLE VERSIONS OF ANY OF MY PLUGINS CANNOT CO-EXIST.** Gimp will always select the earliest one. The only exception to this is a builds of GEGL Effects I provided where I renamed the ENUM list to make them co-compatible. I recommend you don't downgrade unless you know what you are doing. Downgrading plugins can break .xcf files in 2.99.17+ and bring back crashes from the past.