Install for Windows

Here's a step by step to install on Windows without building from source.*

Find your user plugins folder in Gimp.

1. Open Gimp and go to Edit > Preferences.
2. Scroll down in left pane and click the almost impossible to click dot/+ sign next to Folders, to expand the Folders section.
3. Click Plug-ins
4. Click the one that starts C:\Users...
5. Click the second icon at top-right whose tooltip is "Show file location in the file manager".
6. Close Gimp.

Download the latest release, the zip file version - on the project main page look for Releases at right.

1. In the zip file find the PluginScripts folder
2. Copy all the .py files from this to your plugins folder
3. You can throw away the zip file now, we don't need anything else in the downloaded zip file.

Download a build for Windows of the resynthesizer software

1. Visit https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-Resynthisizer-Heal-Selection-Runtime-Error?pid=12687#pid12687
2. At the bottom of the discussion are some zip files to download, download the first of the 3.
3. Open it
4. Copy the 2 .exe files (resynthesizer.exe and resynthesizer-gui.exe) to that same plugins folder of yours.
5. Done! You can delete this zip file too.

Open Gimp to complete the installation.

Heal selection... is now in the Enhance section of the Filters menu.

*To use Resynthesizer in Gimp on Windows, you'll need to either:

Build the code from source - not on the table for most users who don't have a C++ compiler and a thorough knowledge of building C++ code projects.

• or -

Get copies of the .exe files, which are not included in the release files here.

Building from source just is not realistic for most users, thus the steps published here.