Re: [Gimp-user] Can't find feather_paste.py in GIMP

[Partha Bagchi <partha1b gmail com>]

Thanks Joao. Will try that out.

Joe, (Total speculation) maybe you are not looking at the right place?

Note that the plugin will show up at the bottom of the Edit menu.

Hope this helps.

Partha



On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Joao S. O. Bueno <gwidion mpc com br>wrote:

> On 14 January 2014 21:26, Partha Bagchi <partha1b gmail com> wrote:
> > Looks like you downloaded correctly and while I would not have put it in
> > the gimp plug-ins folder, it should still work.
> >
> > So when I installed it, it showed up correctly as expected under
> >                                 Edit -> Feathered Paste.
> >
> > It will be grayed out till something is in the clipboard. When the
> > clipboard is populated, you can use feathered paste.
> >
> > However, I am not sure it works as advertised from my cursory usage.
> That's
> > something to take up with the author.
> >
> > I would want a pasted layer and not pasted on the image.
>
> Hi Partha -
> as it is, the plug-in does merge down the pasted layer, after feathering.
>
> You can change this behavior by commenting out the second before last line
> inside the plug-in function - the one spelling:
> pdb.gimp_image_merge_down(img, sel, EXPAND_AS_NECESSARY)
>
> -----
> Just place a "#" character in front of it and save again.
>
> ---
>
> Another detail in your message: the plug-in does not become "enabled"
> when there is something int the clipboard. There is no way for GIMP to
> know the plug-in
> does consume the clip-board. It however, will go from disabled to
> enabled when there is an active image.
>
>   js
>  -><-
>
>
>
> > Hope that helps.
> >
> > Partha
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:24 AM, SirCrow <forums gimpusers com> wrote:
> >
> > > > 1. Where did you download the file from?
> > > https://github.com/jsbueno/gimp-plugins/blob/master/feather_paste.py
> > >
> > > > 2. What the file extension after downloading?
> > > .py
> > >
> > > > 3. Where did you put the file once downloaded?
> > > C:\Program Files\GIMP\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins
> > >
> > > Joe
> > >
> > > --
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