Hello and welcome to yet another tutorial by
Davies Media Design, my name is Michael Davies, and in today's tutorial I'll be showing you how
to download the Resynthesizer plugin for Windows. This is going to be for GIMP 2.10 or newer, so if
you're using an older version of GIMP this may or may not work for you - I'm not really sure, I
haven't tested it with older versions. But this definitely works with newer versions of GIMP.
I'll be using GIMP 2.10.14 for this tutorial which at the time of this tutorial is the latest
version of GIMP. But of course before I get into that I want to direct you guys over to my website
at DaviesMediaDesign.com. As always I have tons of GIMP and Inkscape tutorials on here, as well
as my GIMP Book of Layers, and GIMP and Inkscape Help Articles so definitely check that out. You
can also enroll in my GIMP 2.10 Masterclass: From Beginner to Pro Photo Editing on Udemy.
You can enroll in any of my Skillshare classes by visiting GIMPschool.com. And as I mentioned
you could purchase my GMIP Book of Layers on Amazon or get it free with a membership to Davies
Media Design. I'll include a link to this as well as all the relevant links from this tutorial in
the description of the video. For those of you who aren't aware, the Resynthesizer plug-in is a
free third-party plugin you can download for GIMP. It's most similar to Photoshop's Content Aware
Fill feature, and I do have an entire tutorial comparing the two features to one another so I'll
link that in the description of this video. But both of them essentially allow you to erase large
objects found in photos. The Resynthesizer plugin for GIMP used to be found on the GIMP plug-in
registry, but they did away with that a few years ago. So now it's kind of hard to find a
reliable link to download this plug-in from, or if there is a reliable link there's not really
a straightforward way to download and install it. So that's the purpose of this tutorial today -
I'm going to show you guys both a reliable link to download this and how to download and install
the plug-in for GIMP. For starters I'll come over here to the link for the Resynthesizer plug-in -
and this is on GitHub. GitHub is a pretty reliable source for downloading things. The main issue
with GitHub, though, is that it's geared towards developers so there's not really a straightforward
way of downloading this plug-in. What you have to do is scroll down here until you get to the
Readme.md file - "md" stands for "markdown." So I'll click on this and that's going to open up the
Readme file for this plugin. And if I scroll down, there's some instructions in here and some other
information. But up top here there's something called "Quick Start," and the first link here is
going to be a link to the GIMP plug-in Registry Archived Page. So I mentioned the registry is no
longer active, but they did archive it here so you can check out the original page if you want.
But if you're using Windows come down here to this third link, and if you right click and go to "Open
link in new tab" or just click on it it'll take you to the page that contains the Resynthesizer
plug-in file. So this is the file we're after, and what I'll do is I'll come down here and
click "download," and on my computer it asks me where to save it before it downloads it. I'm
just saving this to my "Downloads" file and I'll click "Save." So here is the ZIP file that's going
to download, and I'll go to "Show in folder" to bring up my file explorer. So here's the ZIP file.
What I need to do is right-click on this and go to "Extract all," and I'll choose a location where I
want to extract this. So I'll extract this to my downloads folder, click extract. Once it's done
extracting it'll open up the extracted folder here. So if I double click on this, this is all
of the contents found within the Resynthesizer plug-in folder. We're gonna need all these files
to drag into GIMP. So keep this open and I'm going to come back to my downloads folder here with my
file explorer. We're gonna use this to install the plug-in in GIMP. So that being said I'm going
to open up GIMP - and again this is GIMP 2.10.14, so the latest version right now - and what I need
to do is I need to find the plugins folder where I want to drag these files for the Resynthesizer
plug-in. So go to Edit>Preferences... and I'm gonna come all the way down here to the
bottom two folders and expand that and then I'm going to scroll down until I get to "Plugins,"
and I'll come up top here. I'm gonna go with the very first file destination here - this is
the file where GIMP prefers you upload your user preferences. So I'm going to copy this,
right-click and go to "copy." So make sure everything is highlighted here - this is just the
location on your computer where your plugins are being retrieved from - and then I'll come over
here to my file explorer. I'm going to bring up that original "Downloads" folder, or you can just
go to File>Open New Window. I'm gonna click on the current file destination here which should
bring up this highlighted destination, and I'm just gonna right click and go to "Paste." That'll
bring up this new file destination which is where we want to go, and I'm gonna hit the enter key,
and that'll take us there. If you have any older files for a previous version of Resynthesizer
that you used for your current version of GIMP, or for older versions of GIMP - which probably
don't work and that's why you're watching this tutorial - make sure you erase all of those
older files before you install the new files otherwise this won't work. So in my case I'm
just gonna erase these files here. I actually installed this earlier. So these are the new
files. But I'm just gonna erase them for the sake of demonstration. But once you've erased all
your old Resynthesizer files, come back here to your extracted Resynthesizer folder, and you can
hit ctrl+a to select everything, and then you're going to click and drag all these files into your
plugins folder. And next what you have to do is come over to GIMP, and if I close this down - for
most of you you'll see that the plugin files are not currently inside of GIMP, for me they are
in here because as you guys just saw the files were in my plugin folder - so what you'll have
to do is close down GIMP and just reopen it... and now when you go to Filters>Enhance, you should
see those plug-in files here which include "Heal Selection," "Heal Transparency," there's also some
other ones including, if I come to "Render" down here, you'll see "Texture" and there's several
other ones I'm not going to go through all of them. But now let's test this out by opening up
a photo. I'll test this out really quick just to show you guys what it can do. So go to File>Open
Recent and open up this photo here. And I'll hold ctrl and zoom in, grab my lasso tool, and I'm just
going to select the ducks down here, hit the enter key, go to Filters>Enhance>Heal Selection, and
I'll just go with the default settings. Again I do have an entire tutorial dedicated to the
Resynthesizer plug-in and how it compares to Photoshop's Content-Aware Fill, so check that
out. I'll just go with the default settings and click OK. And now those ducks have disappeared.
I'll hit ctrl+shift+a, and there we go. Alright so that's it for this tutorial, hopefully you
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for watching and I'll see you next time.
