Toyworks11 Author

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GIMP - Why Can't I Access My iPhoto Library?

Mac OS X 10.7.5

Gimp 2.6.11

What The **** ? OK, I've been holding out asking this question and now I have to ask.

I'm trying to learn Gimp Image Editor because I need to do a bunch of image editing for a video for the Veterans.

When I try to bring an image in, I can't find my iPhoto Library.

Here's a screen shot.

Also, you're supposed to be able to drag in photos, but it won't let me do that either. So I have spent 4 hours today trying to figure this out and got nowhere.

I hope one of you smart guys can tell me what's going on here. Restore my faith in Mac

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Update keeps installing old softwar

Posted on Jan 14, 2013 4:57 PM

30 replies

Toyworks11 Author

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Jan 15, 2013 7:56 AM in response to VikingOSX

Should I be using 2.8.2 ? Terrance, I set the default editor to Gimp, but it still won't let me drag photos in from Gimp. It opens Gimp when I edit from iPhoto, but if I want to clone from one pic to another, I couldn't get 2 pics to open at once to edit from the iPhoto edit menu.

Toyworks11 Author

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Jan 15, 2013 8:02 AM in response to Frank Caggiano

OK Frank. I'll see if I can update to 2.8.2 Seems like I tried to download that one time and my Mac didn't like it, and some other user suggested 2.6.11 and it loaded Ok. I'll try it though. Can I leave this version on my Mac in case the other doesn't work?

Toyworks11 Author

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Jan 15, 2013 8:06 AM in response to Frank Caggiano

How can I use iPhoto for simple quick edits if I have it set in preferences to open in Gimp? I would like to be able to open my photos in iPhoto with either Gimp or iPhoto to edit

Toyworks11 Author

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Jan 15, 2013 10:42 AM in response to Frank Caggiano

Well, I tried to install 2.8.2 and it won't install on my intel. Tried it twice.

This is my Mac and this is the message I got

Jan 15, 2013 10:46 AM in response to Toyworks11

Where did you download from? Here is a OS X native version for Lion

http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/Download.html

give it a try.

VikingOSX

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Jan 15, 2013 10:51 AM in response to Toyworks11

You need to get the right build for your installed OS X. Pick the 2.8.2 download for Snow Leopard and Lion from here. This is where I got mine and it just works.

Jan 15, 2013 10:52 AM in response to Toyworks11

Toyworks11 wrote:

How can I use iPhoto for simple quick edits if I have it set in preferences to open in Gimp? I would like to be able to open my photos in iPhoto with either Gimp or iPhoto to edit

If you were to go with this setup, iPhoto and GIMP set as its external editor your workflow would look something like this:

Import images into iPhoto

Organize, set keywords, label, etc in iPhoto.

Open image in iPhoto right click image the following opens

You see you have the option to edit the image in iPhoto or in the external editor.

Make your choice and proceed.

Toyworks11 Author

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Jan 15, 2013 11:45 AM in response to Frank Caggiano

Thanks Frank. I downloaded from there and it worked. The edit features are the in iPhoto now. The question I have now is.... How to clone parts of one photo to another. I know I'll have to read the manual, but just wondered if you had a quick tip for me on this.

Jan 15, 2013 6:26 PM in response to Toyworks11

That's going to be tricky with this set-up and it would have been nice to know this was a requirement at the beginning.

The difficulty is that you can only have one image open in the external editor at a time. To cut and paste between two images you need to have them both open in GIMP at the same time.

On images you want to do this to you will need to skip the external editor path and open both images in GIMP directly. One way and possibly the best way is to export both images to say the desktop and then open them in GIMP. Once you're done save the final image and import that into iPhoto.

regards

Toyworks11 Author

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Jan 15, 2013 8:58 PM in response to Frank Caggiano

I don't know how I did it, but I have it set now so that I can actually open 2 images in seperate windows and clone from one to the other. I just opened them up seperately and tried cloning and it worked. Thanks so much for all your help. The other thing i've been trying to figure out is I haven't found an easy way to adjust brush size. I did find one way, but it's like changing the pistons in the space shuttle.

Here's a pic I just did a test clone on.

Shootist007

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Jan 15, 2013 11:46 PM in response to Toyworks11

Try the [ and the ] Keys. In Photoshop that is what raises and lowers brush sizes. Yup works in Gimp to.

Toyworks11 Author

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Jan 15, 2013 11:49 PM in response to Shootist007

I tried that earlier and it didn't work on my Mac.

Shootist007

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Jan 15, 2013 11:51 PM in response to Toyworks11

Then your Mac is screwed up. Those are the keys you use to raise and lower the size of any tool, that can have its bruch/selection size adjusted.

It is just those keys, no shift key.

Jan 16, 2013 8:35 AM in response to Toyworks11

Glad it's working for you now. As for GIMP related questions the GIMP site has a lot of good documentation as well as tutorials and links to GIMP related sites.

Especially if this is your first experience with an image editor like GIMP you should spend some time looking over the docs and tutorials. It is amazing what you can do with it. If you're familiar with something like Photoshop the transition shouldn't be to painful there are a lot of similarities.

regards

Toyworks11 Author

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Jan 16, 2013 9:29 AM in response to Frank Caggiano

Thanks so much everyone. This site is the best, and you guys are all so knowlagble. By the way, the brush sizer did start working for me, thank goodness. I haven't used Photo Shop, and this will take some learning for sure. If I can't figure something out, I'll be back here asking questions again. Thanks

Here's my most recent creation. I scaled the smaller pic up

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