Also, can you run GIMP from the command line doing the following?

Go to Start menu -> Exec…, then type cmd and press enter. In the console, write:

 cd %ProgramFiles%\GIMP-2.0\bin gimp-2.6 -c --verbose > "%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\Desktop\out.txt" 2>&1 

About big images:
unfortunately it is currently impossible to do the rescaling per tile (this is because deciding where to rescale is a “global” operation); an implementation which could save some memory using the disk could maybe be done, but not in short time (and it would likely be extremely slow, too).
There are however a few ways to save some memory, which are:

• reducing as much as possible the number of colour channels of the images (e.g. you might remove the alpha channel from the main layer if not needed, and use monochrome preservation/discard/rigidity layers if needed)
• also, reducing as much as possible the size of the auxiliry layers might help (e.g. if you need to mask a region, crop the layer to such region)
• another way to save some momory is more aggressive, causes a considerable slowdown and requires fiddling in the code and recompiling the plugin, but in case you need it here it is: you should edit the file render.c under the src subdirectory of the plugin source code distribution, go to line 218 (i.e. after a number of lines which all begin with lqr_carver_set_…) and add exactly this line:

lqr_carver_set_use_cache(carver, FALSE);

Then save the file and recompile the plugin with make. BTW if you find this is actually useful I may consider adding somewhere an option for memory saving in the future, so let me know if you try this.

correct me if I am wrong, since I have ubuntu 8.10 and I currently try to compile the newer version.
First thing I am not able to add correct layer as 'discard features', I am trying to add the layer with (gimp-image-add-layer theImage theWLayer 0) where I put 0 also to the appropriate prop of the script-fu function, but even with setting the value to 4000 it doesn't work at all. I am running this from the commandline without interface.

I would also love to know if it is possible to extend the algorithm to rescale really big images, in doing rescaling per tile or hierarchically. since I end up with my 2gb ram on about 6000x6000(original size being scaled down) images. This is nice but for my current project I would love to do even much bigger images…

Warmaster

I don't know much about coding for GIMP, but, I think that you could use GIMP's source code and extract the rescale tool, and make it into a Module, I've seen Modules that added buttons to GIMP, color selecting, paint tools, and all sorts of other cool things like that.

Maybe Liquid Rescale could be made into a Module and have the functionality as if being included in GIMP?

1. select the area to remove as usual
2. press one of the “auto size” buttons
3. go to interactive mode (thirs small button in the “set width and height” section): this will apply the new size settings and show you the result
4. (if needed, adjust the result)
5. press the “reset” button in the “map” section of the interactive dialog
6. press the “reset” button in the “Set width and height” section of the interactive dialog: this will do the back-LqR step and complete the scaling

It sounds more complicated but in fact it is not, and gives you more control over what you're doing.
The previous workflow is still available from the “output” tab, anyway.

In general, if you leave the mouse over the various items in the dialog window for a few seconds you can get some useful tips, suggesting what to do. More information can be found in the tutorial or in the manual pages, follow the links from the sidebar at the top left.

I just installed Liquid Rescale on latest version of Gimp on a computer running Windows XP Pro (x64 edition). When I tried to rescale an image, all the items on the Feature masks tab were grayed out. What causes this behavior?

Thanks.

About next version (0.7.0), it's not coming out very soon probably. The development version currently has a few imporevements and can be downloaded from the git repository. The instructions are here (there's also an RSS feed to know when new commits are up). If you want to volounteer for beta-testing you can send me an email and be notified when a new version is about to come out, this would be very apprecieted (and of course the same invitation is open for anyone who may want to volounteer for this).

I would like to ask if, and suggest that, the next version of Liquid Rescale will have interactive rescaling? I've seen others writing that Liquid Rescale will have an interactive rescale option — I know it already has somewhat interactivity in 0.6.1 — but, I would like something more like the interactivity in Photoshop.

I know this is a hard task, I just want to know whether the next coming version (0.6.2?) is the version that you might implement truly interactive rescaling.

On that note: When is the next version coming out? Or how close is it to being released?

Also, I would like to know if there is anyway I can "beta test" each version before they are released? All I would need is source code that can be compiled :)

Thank you.

Is this a common occurance?
If it is, can it be fixed?
If it can't be fixed, shouldn't version 2.4 of Gimp be taken off of the supported versions list?

Just offering some questions/ideas…

1. first you scale to some new size
2. then you click on the “reset” button in the “Map” section
3. then you click on the “reset” button in the “Set width and height” section

If what you want is instead to go back using standard scaling, I don't think this would actually fit within the interactive framework.

Can it be done? Without being confusing.

The GIMP plugin will take advantage of the new features in the next version, but the performance can already be improved by just installing the new library version (you don't need to recompile the plugin¹).

Note for Windows users: I will pack a version with the new engine soon.

Another thing which is different between the last version and the tutorial ("Quick element removal" section) is the location of the "Mode" box, which was moved from under the size controls to the "output" page (and slightly modified, too).

Julien

About suggestions: they are always very welcome, but please consider the latest version as basis for improvement if possible.

BTW to find out which plugins are included in gimp-plugin-registry and what is their version you can read the description of the package with Synaptic.

I am using Ubuntu 8.10 and used synaptic package manager to download gimp-plugin-registry (which includes LqR) a few days ago. It is likely that it doesn't include your latest bug fixes.

Like you, when I get time, I will give a definitive answer. But I am not proficient in finding the versions of things yet.

Thanks

BTW I have some suggestions for improving the user interface. Along the line of: use words that describe the goal, and that nieve users can understand, rather than words that describe the techniques that only expert Gimp users can understand. For example, use "Zoom" for the technique of applying LqR, then applying LqR again back to the original size. If I get time, I will post to "Request a feature."

Calling error for procedure 'gimp-image-add-layer':
Image 'file:///home/bootch/LeefersFarmArt/Trial.pnm' (1) is of type 'gray', but an image of type 'rgb' is expected

I'm trying to dissappear (or remove or discard) an object.

I understand that this is not a high priority (greyscale a small portion of use) ( I can probably work around it) and that maybe it is a known limitation.
I searched for RGB in the tutorial and the manual but found no mention that discarding only works for color images.
It must be related to the need for a color (red) highlight for the selection to discard.

(btw in my reply i indicate this as best side to get help for LR).

well i would have check better done before posting here, i just looked in the computers we have around , in all gimp 2.6 is installed in a Gimp-2.6 folder…but thinking better that may be done to limit conflict with a previous Gimp version we need to run at best some animation plugins

i am downloading again last gimp installer to check better

The installation file is a self-extractig executable. If you have GIMP installed in the default location, i.e. in the GIMP-2.0 folder under your main Program Files folder, just execute the file

INstaller can't work because that "the default location, the GIMP-2.0 folder in Program Files "does not exist:
Gimp folder for Gimp 2.6.x is called "GIMP-2.6" NOT "GIMP-2.0"

Something similar to install in 2.7, that installer will only deflate the content in a new bogus "GIMP-2.0" folder..

.only with obsolete version as 2.0 or 2.2 (not sure about 2.4) that may work

the version from apt-get is not up-to-date. If you want to install the latest version, you need to download and install the sources version which you find in the Download page. You will also need the latest version of the liblqr library, which you have to download from here (sources version, of course).

However, you should also uninstall the liblqr-1 and gimp-plugin-registry packages first, but beware that the gimp-plugin-registry also provides other plugins, so if you uninstall it you will be removing those as well, and if you want them back you will have to install them manually again.
The command for uninstalling is

 sudo apt-get remove liblqr-1 gimp-plugin-registry 

If you decide to do it, install the additional required packages first. In Ubuntu, giving this command in a terminal should do the trick:

 sudo apt-get install build-essential intltool gettext libglib2.0-dev libgimp2.0-dev 

Then, compile and install the liblqr library, closely following the instructions in the installation instructions page.
Then, install the plugin following tthe instructions you find here.

Thanks for you're Help.

Sorry for my English & my president…
I'm French

As for the previous version 0.5, the translations and help files will only work correctly in the standard version if the Windows Program Files directory name (which depends on the system language) starts with the letters "PROGRA" and the installation path is the default one. The PortableApps version is a little less problematic since it only requires that the installation path is the default one (something like L:\PortableApps\GIMPPortable, but the drive letter is not relevant).

Many thanks must go to François Collard for having compiled the plugin over and over until we managed to make it work properly.

• Added interactive mode: you can adjust the scaling size incrementally. Also, after the first computation the scaling can go in real-time!
• Scaling beyond 200% is now possible (the scaling is automatically divided in steps)
• The "scaling mode" was moved to the Output tab, and renamed; two new scaling modes were added
• Fixed non-interactive mode (previously buggy), and included three scripts to help command-line batch processing (so that you can easily automate liquid-rescaling operations on a large number of files from the command line)
• Split the auto-size button in two, one for width and the other for height

Go get it from the Download page!

http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=37395&p=268558

You might have to contact the plug-in's authors about how to call LQR from a script. The source code seems to indicate that when run non-interactively, the plug-in only expects five parameters, but its PDB registration demands 24 parameters.

Anyideas on how I can get this to work?

It's not something special, what I have done here.
It's only an SFX-File. But I find it a little bit easier for some people.
The Text in the Install-Window is made with OpenOffice.org and the Icon is not totally made by myself(I think you know the Source). Only the "+" is made by me and I delete the Background of Wilber.
And I combined that all with WinRaR (now the english version)

I extracted the /lib and /share folders in the Windows download to my C:\Program Files\Gimp-2.0 folder in Windows Vista.

I'll try upgrading from Gimp 2.4 to 2.6 then re-install and report back.

I've run this installation of Gimp hundreds of times with no trouble, even with other plugins. I wonder (naively) if there's some disconnect between the way Gimp for Windows treats libraries and plugins vs the way Gimp for Linux treats them.

For more Questions, you can Mail me: ed.teneerf|2retsamolah#ed.teneerf|2retsamolah