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Yes it can I opened a hdr and converted to exr. Then closed gimp opened exr and converted to hdr. This was done in Gimp 2.10 windows verison!
Canvas rotation and flipping....nice! Symmetry painting sounds handy too.
Will take time to download that tomorrow, I'm excited to see what they did to it. Been using Gimp for ages and got used to it, so I hope the handling didn't change too much.
OK, nice! Tks!
...waiting until I know there is a clean version of the installer.
Partha and Samj both have finalised installers now. They are not the official release but I can vouch for these two - they are trustworthy and have packaged extras that are very useful indeed.
http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=16456
http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=16455
Cheers for this, and well can't be any worse than the file from Gimp.org itself which is weird, will test the second one as the first one is overly large and well still says evaluation version.. lol
..colour me paranoid, but I had a system get infected on a Microsoft update download from what was supposed to be a "trusted site".
I know what ya mean I did download one of the files, and ran it through Virustotal and well I have not installed it, as half the engines timed out and had one hit of it being suspect.. And reading the Gimpchat forums , some others are getting suspect hits with their AV, but there are a few that are not to happy with the latest version including finding out their plugins no longer work..
It's entirely up to you of course but what I meant is Partha and Samj are very well respected and trusted members of the gimp community. There are a number of instances of virus checkers giving false positives with open source software but think of what "open source" means. It means the source code has to be made publicly available. A bit difficult to hide a virus then? If plugins don't work it isn't because of a virus, it's because the plugins will need to be updated to work with the new Gimp. That is always a problem with updates where there are a number of popular third party plugins. The native Gimp plugins have shown no sign of error so far.
Samj's portable working fine with the packaged G'MIC filter set that Gimp users find indispensible.
Wow! Thanks for sharing this. There has been so much good opensource stuff coming out its very hard to keep up to date. I'm going to get right to installing this.
Recently someone (well last year) posted some links to text to speech and similar SW freebies in the DAZ forums and Windows Defender flagged it as being infected. To date in almost 3 years of Windows 10 that is the only SW that Windows Defender has flagged and quarantined. I then deleted that SW within the Windows Defender UI. However Windows Defender did not flash me a buy warning on screen like I would have preferred when it detected that trojan SW. I downloaded that SW via Google Chrome which is also supposed to scan SW it downloads but it flopped on that trojan SW.
The Gimp 2.10.0 SW Windows 10 only states that that SW is not in the Microsoft list of known safe SW not that it is actually a trojan. A Windows Defenfer scan says that it is not but Mirosoft will gather data results from many users and run tests itself befor Gimp 2.10.0 gets added to it's list of known safe SW.
I downloaded the Partha version and scanned it with Malwarebytes Premium. It said it was clean. I trust MWB.
Laurie
You can download the file without using torrent from the main site.
The issue is that even when direct downloading from the official site link, when trying to install some AV's are flagging it as having FileRep Malware, and Windows 10 App Protection pops up advising not to run it as it comes up as Unknown Publisher.. Even some people on the Gimpchat forum are having issues with this.. Which is weird because the beta/developer version never had this problem.. And in the end even if it is a false positive with how things are these days you just never know..
Okay after redownloading the file which seemed to be a bit smaller (or probably imagining it) and telling windows to run the file anyway, Avast never made a sound or complained and was totally cool with it this time around so looks like it had its FileRep updated..
So all is hunkydory now and am very happy with the new version loving the dark theme it has and not getting blinded by the previous versions theme.. :)
Anyone else gets a lots of errors on startup? About half of the plugins doesn't work and those which starts will give you more errors or freeze the software!
Get yourself over to Gimp Chat Forum and ask questions. I have tested Samj's portable and have found no problems at all so far but I don't know about the official release or any installable versions. Third party plugins from previous versions are bound to need updating but if you are referring to native plugins, I really don't have a clue. GC members are really friendly and helpful and will be happy to answer your questions.
I'd been using the 2.10 release candidate version, which wouldn't load the gmic filters plugin. Tried the final release version today, but that doesn't load gmic either. So, I got samj's portable version and found that it loads the gmic plugin, even though there's still a missing dll error at startup. Gmic works fine though, except that the version included doesn't contain as many filters as the previous version I had - it's missing things like "graphic novel" and "illustration look", that I used often. So I had to reinstall Gimp 2.8 alongside 2.10 portable, just to get the full Gmic set.
..think I'll wait until the bugs get worked out as I use filters a lot.
The Partha version I have has no problems either. G'MIC loads fine, it found and uses my NIK filters just fine.
Laurie
Are you sure? There has been some juggling and some filters are under different headings now.
EDIT: G'MIC GTK both those filters are there under Artistic.
I use filters too. I'll also wait.
Yeah, my mistake... I'd been going round in circles trying the different versions. It was the Partha version that was giving the dll error and has only 391 filters in Gmic [qt version]. The samj version has all the filters. The only reason I kind of prefer the Partha is that it's got the Nik plugins working from within GIMP. Perhaps they can be installed in the samj version too? I just haven't had time to play around with it. Until now, I'd only used the 2.10rc to open exr canvases, so I'm not really up to speed with all the changes from 2.8.
The "missing libidn-11.dll" error on startup with the Partha when it tries to load Gmic doesn't seem to stop anything from working. Just click to get rid of the dialogue and it continues to load without any problems. So it's no big deal really.
I've used Parthas stuff too. I do most of my filter work in Photoshop cs 6 so not a problem. I am running win 7 pro 64bit and had problems with old plugins not working just uninstall everything and clean registry and reinstalled fresh copy of new gimp no problems. No worries im sure that gimic will have a fixed version of their plugin in no time. I'm just glad that the gimp developers finally put something out.
I just downloaded Gimp 2.10 last night. It looks great. I've been using the Partha compile of the 2.9 beta version for the last year with no problems so I don't expect any with the 2.10 now that it's out. I love being able to use the .exr files in Gimp. I've had fun playing around with those since I figured out how to create them in DS.
I played with it a little bit today to make sure everything is working and also transferring all of my scripts and plug-ins over from the beta version. I did my first bit of postwork on an image today to make sure it could find my Nik Filters. I'm excited Gimp 2.10 is finally here.
...so you can now use Gimp to create HDRs?
Certainly looks like you can, not really sure if it was in the 2.8.22 version of Gimp, but there is a Radiance RGBE .hdr option in the export dialog I just did a test with an ordinary .jpg file and exported it as a .hdr file.. And well it has done something now to see how it goes in Daz Studio..
...but without using a panoramic camera, is it possible to create an HDR dome from a normal "flat" .jpg? What about using Carrara or Bryce?
Yeah you can use a standard jpg, the images below are what I got doing a quick render with IBL Master, the other is the background that I used and ran though Gimp doing nothing special just saving it as a .hdr.. It is a bit on the blue side but shows there is no real need for fancy hdr's..
Just make the background the background image if so desire and be sure to hide the environment dome, since it is not the right size the image will come out all messed up..