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 liked it. If you did you could subscribe to my
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the description of the video, but thanks for watching and I'll see you next time.