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 and install the GIMP patch
called "PhotoGIMP." So this is a patch designed to help people switching from Photoshop to GIMP,
and it makes it easier to switch from Photoshop to GIMP by using certain things like shortcuts
from Photoshop, etc. We'll get into that in a second. I'll be using GIMP version
2.10.20 which is the latest version of GIMP at the time of this tutorial
Before I get into that check out my website at DaviesMediaDesign.com. I have tons of video
tutorials on here, my GIMP Book of Layers, and Help Articles so definitely check that
out. You can 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 you can get more
with a premium membership to Davies Media Design, and I'll include a link to this as well as all
the relevant links from this tutorial in the description of the video. So this tutorial is
going to be covering how to download and install the PhotoGIMP patch for Windows in particular. So
this does work for Linux and MAC as well - I'll be doing a separate tutorial on how to install this
for MAC. But the first thing you'll need to do is navigate to this link, which I'll include in the
description of the video. This is on GITHub and DioLinux is the one who came up with this. I'll
scroll down - you can see all the files that come with this as well as the splash screen. So this
will replace your existing GIMP splash screen, and you can see the features that come with this. So,
it mimics Photoshop's tool organization, it has a bunch of free fonts - which by the way a lot
of the fonts don't include a commercial license so if you want to use some of these free fonts
that are included with this patch for commercial purposes definitely check the license of each
individual font before you use them - you'll see it also comes with some Python filters including
Heal Selection, which is the filter that comes by default with Resynthesizer - so that allows
you to easily erase objects in photos in GIMP, which I have a tutorial on - new splash screen,
as I mentioned, it declutters the canvas - which I'll show you, and I think the biggest thing here
is that it replaces the GIMP shortcuts with Adobe Photoshop shortcuts - So all the shortcuts you're
used to as a Photoshop user will now be installed in GIMP instead of having GIMP shortcuts - and
the last thing to mention is that you'll have a new desktop icon. So let me minimize this,
right-click>View>Show Desktop Icons. So this is the default GIMP icon. We're gonna keep an eye
on that as we install this. So coming back here to the GitHub page, I'll scroll up and I'm gonna
click "Clone" to download this, and then come down here and click "Download Zip." This is gonna ask
me where I want to download my zip file. For some of you it might automatically start the
download. So I'll choose my "Downloads" folder and click "Save." I've already downloaded this once.
Once it's done downloading, click on this little arrow and click "Show in folder." So here is the
Downloads folder where this file is located. What you're going to want to do is extract the files,
so right click on here and go to "Extract all." So it's gonna ask you where you want to extract
this - I could go with this location, for example, or you guys can browse and choose any location
on your computer. I'm gonna exit out of this because I've already extracted this. So here is
my extracted folder - this is what should pop up once you're done extracting this. Next we're gonna
navigate inside this folder by double clicking on it, and you'll see a variety of things in here.
I'm gonna click on the "var" folder, so double click on that to enter it. We'll go into the app
folder, "org.gimp.GIMP," the "config" folder, and then the "gimp" folder. So that'll leave us with
this 2.10 folder. We're going to need that for the next step, but we're gonna stop right here. Next
what we need to do is find the main 2.10 folder in our GIMP download. So to do that we're going
to open up the current version of GIMP we have downloaded. I hope you guys have GIMP 2.10.20.
So let me minimize everything on my computer and just double-click on the shortcut. Here is
my current installation of GIMP, and I have all my preferences from my other tutorials I've done,
but what I need to do is go to Edit>Preferences and come down here into "Folders," and scroll
down. You can click on pretty much any one of these folders - so I'll just go with my brushes
folder and just click on the folder that says "AppData/Roaming/GIMP/2.10," and then whatever
folder you're in right now, and then come up here - you'll see a little icon that says "Show file
location" in the file manager. So we'll click on that. So here we are - here is the brushes
folder - what we actually need is this 2.10 folder. So let's come over here to this GIMP
folder here, and now you can see 2.10 - and this is the folder we're going to be working
with. But the next step is we want to back this folder up because this folder contains a lot of
important information about our GIMP. For example it contains a lot of the default preferences that
come with GIMP when you first download it from the GIMP website. It may also contain things
like plugins you've installed over the years or over the months and some of your personal
preferences. So I do recommend backing this folder up. So we'll do that by coming over here and going
to File>Open>New Window, and what we're doing right now is simply creating a backup folder.
So I'm here inside of my D: Drive - all I did was click on the D: Drive here. I'll come on
top and click "New folder," and I'll just name this "GIMP 2 10 backup," hit the enter key,
double click to enter that folder, and now we'll come back here. And remember this is our original
2.10 folder - so I'll right-click, go to "Copy," come over here, right click and go to "Paste."
You can also just do ctrl+c and then ctrl+v to paste. So now we have all of our GIMP information
backed up here in case we want it back later. So I'll minimize that for now. So remember this is
our original GIMP folder that we accessed via the brushes folder here. So what I'll do first
is exit out of GIMP - so we'll exit out of the Preferences and out of GIMP entirely. Next I'm
going to right click on here and go to "Delete" - so that will delete that main 2.10 folder. Now
we're going to navigate back to the folder where we have our PhotoGIMP-master - so that's going
to be this folder here. So this is the folder when we extracted our file from the zip file
and then we entered all those folders - here is the final 2.10 folder we need. So I'll ctrl C
to copy that. We can minimize this, and coming back here we're going to right-click and go to
"paste." So that has pasted the PhotoGIMP files now into GIMP, and our desktop icon
didn't update here let me right click, go to "Refresh." So that part didn't work - this
was made for Linux so perhaps not everything is going to work for Windows. But now what I'll do
is just double click to open GIMP, and here you'll see the new PhotoGIMP splash screen.
And once GIMP has finished loading you should now see the brand-new layout - so this is the
PhotoGIMP layout. So I'll point out some of the new features - for one they got rid of the little
Wilbur icon that's usually up top here, all the icons are automatically converted to symbolic
icons - so they are that single color - the tools are automatically in a single row and grouped,
which is only available in GIMP 2.10.20 or newer, and then they've cleaned up the default workspace
here - so you only have your tool options, fonts, layers, and channels, and that frees up room in
the canvas. So I'll go to File>New, and click OK just with the default settings. So you can see our
canvas has a bit more room, and the main thing I want to point out here is that your shortcut keys
have been automatically replaced with Photoshop shortcut keys. So I'll come over here and click
and hold this, and you'll see the move tool now instead of having the M shortcut key has the V
shortcut key. Another example is the paintbrush tool - so instead of that being P now that's
going to be B. And you can see all the other shortcut keys there - let's go to the crop tool,
that's another common one, so that's just C now instead of shift+C. And if I come over to the
fonts you'll see there are a bunch of new fonts in here - again check the individual licenses on each
one of these fonts because some of them can not be used commercially. And if I click on my Paintbrush
tool and come back to the tool options and click on the brushes, you'll see there's also some
new brushes in here. So you guys can feel free to browse through those. So before I finish off this
tutorial by showing you how to restore GIMP back to its original state before PhotoGIMP, I do want
to mention I will not be using the shortcut keys from here. I will not be using PhotoGIMP - I just
want to show you guys how to install it in case you are a Photoshop user, so if you are a longtime
viewer of my channel - a subscriber - and you're wondering if I'm going to be using this setup
moving forward for the rest of my tutorials, I will not. I will continue using the setup I
usually use - some of you might prefer this setup, but I will show you guys how to restore GIMP back
to what it was before PhotoGIMP. So let's exit out of GIMP here, and now let's open up our GIMP
backup folder. And then we'll also open up the main folder here that GIMP is working with - here
is that 2.10 from the PhotoGIMP-master file. So all we have to do to back this up is right-click,
go to "Delete," navigate over here to the backup folder, right-click> Copy, right-click>Paste,
and now GIMP should be backed up to the default. And we'll know based on the splash screen. And
there GIMP is gonna be returned back to normal, and indeed we are back to my setup here. Alright
so that's it for this tutorial hopefully you liked it if you did you could check out my YouTube
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