

Most of the Plug-ins are available for free to download. The added plug-ins are successfully added to GIMP. Now, add the folder where we have stored our downloaded plug-ins. Now, select the plug-ins folder from this menu. Open GIMP and navigate to Edit-> Preference menu, it will open a dialog window select the folder option given in the left menu at bottom:Įxpanding the Folders menu will open a list of default folders where GIMP contains its data. If you cannot locate the plug-ins directory in the GIMP folder, then there is an alternative way to do the same. scm extension.įor python-based plug-ins, we must have python installed in our Linux system. py extension or /home/$USERNAME/.gimp/scripts for script files having the. Most of the plug-ins can also be installed by copying into the specific directory, which is "/home/$USERNAME/.gimp/plug-ins" for python plug-ins having. Plug-ins can be installed using a repository or by compiling. GIMP Plug-ins are easy to install and setup. Most of the Linux distribution packaged GIMP as their default image manipulation program. It is also known as Photoshop alternatives for Linux. GIMP is one of the most used applications for image editing and other graphical tasks.
