Hi all,

Newbie here as far as gimp is concerned. Please CC me if somebody answers as I've turned off mail for the list as I am info. overloaded.

Before jumping in - let me give some background.

I am on Debian buster and running gimp 2.8.20-1.1

apt-cache policy gimp gimp:
Installed: 2.8.20-1.1
Candidate: 2.8.20-1.1
Version table:
*** 2.8.20-1.1 900
900 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages 1 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I have a bunch of images that I want to sharpen. I was trying to get a way to sharpen images but got this somewhat oldish script for doing that -

https://twentymegahertz.wordpress.com/2017/01/05/gimp-script-for-image-sharpening-using-grain-extract/

I copied the script as it is and renamed it as gimp-sharpen-grain-extract.scm . I was unsure as to what the extension for the scheme interpreter should be but then saw https://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/gimp-scripting.html

and specifically https://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/install-script-fu.html and saw that there are two places where scripts can be put.

a. /home/shirish/.gimp-2.8/scripts - user b. /usr/share/gimp/2.0/scripts - global .

I copied the script to my userspace -

/home/shirish> cp gimp-sharpen-grain-extract.scm ~/.gimp-2.8/scripts

Trying to run gimp, gimp runs but the script doesn't work - it says

/home/shirish> gimp

(gimp:7249): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: g_object_set_is_valid_property: object class 'GeglConfig' has no property named 'cache-size' GIMP-Error: Plug-In "none"
(none)
attempted to install procedure "script-fu-bp-sharpen-grain-extract" in the invalid menu location "/Filters/BP". The menu path must look like either "" or "/path/to/item".

It is possible that the script itself is wrong or some path has changed or something, can somebody guide me to do the right thing or right way ?

I find the manual instructions tedious to say the least. I want to have some automated ways of doing that.

What I usually do is take snaps of events via my mobile phone, copy them to my hdd in a particular directory and from there run

mogrify -path /home/shirish/another_directory/ -monitor -quality 70 -trim -resize '>'600x400 *.jpg

This way the original photos/pictures/images are not touched and the ones which are there in the other/output directory are ones which are web-size friendly.

Now the images themselves become a bit dull, see https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2018/01/25/pune-metro-anniversary-celebrations-report-and-suggestions/ for examples of pictures.

I want to sharpen the images a bit but am confused how to proceed for it.

If the script can be fixed, please help me with that. If there is some other way/other solution which could help enhance the quality of the photos. I am a click them kind of photographer, not a professional or even an amateur by any standards.

Look forward to either help in the script or some simple ways I could enhance (maybe using some filter or something).

Regards,
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On 04/02/2018, Partha Bagchi wrote:

Change the last line to: "/Filters/BP"

Dear Partha,

where should I change the line ?

65 (script-fu-menu-register "Fu-Sharpen-Grain-Extract" "/Script-Fu/Sharpness/Sharper/")

66 ; 67 ; end
68 ;

Are you saying change it to -

66 script-fu-menu-register "Fu-Sharpen-Grain-Extract" "/Filters/BP"

Is my understanding correct ?

Regards,
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On 04/02/2018, shirish शिरीष wrote:

at bottom :-

On 04/02/2018, Partha Bagchi wrote:

Change the last line to: "/Filters/BP"

Dear Partha,

where should I change the line ?

65 (script-fu-menu-register "Fu-Sharpen-Grain-Extract" "/Script-Fu/Sharpness/Sharper/")

66 ; 67 ; end
68 ;

Are you saying change it to -

66 script-fu-menu-register "Fu-Sharpen-Grain-Extract" "/Filters/BP"

Is my understanding correct ?

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That's a negative, I get the following -

Error while loading /home/shirish/.gimp-2.8/scripts/gimp-sharpen-grain-extract.scm:

Error: (/home/shirish/.gimp-2.8/scripts/gimp-sharpen-grain-extract.scm : 66) eval: unbound variable: /Script-Fu/Sharpness/Sharper/"

Regards,
          Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल
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On 04/02/2018, shirish शिरीष wrote:

at bottom :-

On 04/02/2018, shirish शिरीष wrote:

at bottom :-

On 04/02/2018, Partha Bagchi wrote:

Change the last line to: "/Filters/BP"

Dear Partha,

where should I change the line ?

65 (script-fu-menu-register "Fu-Sharpen-Grain-Extract" "/Script-Fu/Sharpness/Sharper/")

66 ; 67 ; end
68 ;

Are you saying change it to -

66 script-fu-menu-register "Fu-Sharpen-Grain-Extract" "/Filters/BP"

Is my understanding correct ?

That's a negative, I get the following -

Error while loading /home/shirish/.gimp-2.8/scripts/gimp-sharpen-grain-extract.scm:

Error: (/home/shirish/.gimp-2.8/scripts/gimp-sharpen-grain-extract.scm : 66) eval: unbound variable: /Script-Fu/Sharpness/Sharper/"

And some more errors on the console -

While parsing XMP metadata: Error: No XMP packet found

(script-fu:27394): GLib-WARNING **: (../../../../glib/gerror.c:407):g_error_new_valist: runtime check failed: (domain != 0)

(script-fu:27394): GLib-WARNING **: (../../../../glib/gerror.c:407):g_error_new_valist: runtime check failed: (domain != 0)

Regards,
          Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल
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clearing the confusion -

the errors shared above were with the naming of the script before.

After the change, the error is same, only the error has differed slightly -

gimp Praveen.jpg

(gimp:27442): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: g_object_set_is_valid_property: object class 'GeglConfig' has no property named 'cache-size'

(script-fu:27450): GLib-WARNING **: (../../../../glib/gerror.c:407):g_error_new_valist: runtime check failed: (domain != 0)
script-fu-Warning: Error while loading /home/shirish/.gimp-2.8/scripts/gimp-sharpen-grain-extract.scm:

Error: (/home/shirish/.gimp-2.8/scripts/gimp-sharpen-grain-extract.scm : 66) eval: unbound variable: /Filters/BP"

While parsing XMP metadata: Error: No XMP packet found

(script-fu:27450): GLib-WARNING **: (../../../../glib/gerror.c:407):g_error_new_valist: runtime check failed: (domain != 0)

/home/shirish/.gimp-2.8/scripts> tail -5 gimp-sharpen-grain-extract.scm (script-fu-menu-register "Fu-Sharpen-Grain-Extract" /Filters/BP")

; ; end
;

just to make sure that I haven't fouled up anywhere with the instructions given/shared I have put the entire script as a paste -

http://paste.debian.net/1008712/

Regards,
          Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल
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On 04/02/2018, Partha Bagchi wrote:

You are missing a quotation mark. Make that last line:

(script-fu-menu-register "script-fu-bp-sharpen-grain-extract" "/Filters/BP")

Thank you Partha, I was finally able to see where the script resides. It is in Filters > BP > Sharpen using grain extract

but now am unsure how to use the dialog boxes presented but this I guess I can put as a new problem, at least the first one is resolved :)

Thank you for being patient.

Regards,
          Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल
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