The Gimp For Mac
'Resynthesizer' I've been chasing my tail like a dog all afternoon over this. Gimp update 2.9.22 update promptly deleted any signs of 'Resynthesizer'; healing is gone. As a plugin, the Mac version is not available because it is part of some modified version. I believe mine was McGimp. Downloaded McGimp (2.9.7), it's not included. I looked and saw no early versions of any custom modifications stating it was included.
Libregraphicsworld.org: nothing. 'Resynthesizer' for Mac does not exist any more. It is total bs when they claim Gimp had 'Content Aware' years before Photoshop. There was a plug-in for Gimp, requiring a grad student programmer to install it, but no one thought it was important enough to make it a standard filter or fill function.
I searched all over. There are dozens of tutorials on how to use it, usually boasting 'we're first' ad nauseam, but no one mentioned where I can download and install it in a Mac, manually or otherwise. Gimp may have had the plug-in floating around somewhere, but Photoshop had it installed and easy to use in a logical location. No, I do not work for Adobe, otherwise I wouldn't be trying to find it for Gimp. Gimp, still doesn't have it; neither do I.
Gimp 2.8
Time to have a beer. There are currently two relatively easy ways to get to this plugin. 'Easy' as in 'still a pain', just like the other, third and fourth option. The batteries included approach: download a build from. Sadly development seems to have stopped about a year ago. Currently the latest version is 2.8.12 built for Sierra. The developer libraries included approach: download a binary from.
Does not include the plugin itself but has recent builds against which building the plugin itself is much easier. Latest builds available. Currently at 2.10-rc1 (2018). Use the help of to build everything from scratch/source including all build-dependencies and then go to GIMP and build that as well from source.
Install the official binary for GIMP as regular on macOS, the install a virtual machine and a Linux in that, with GIMP and the resynthesizer plugin ready-made from a repository. That said, its probably easiest (and a huge hassle) to just install two versions of GIMP, like in the 4th option. A recent one without the plugin but all the latest core features, and either an older GIMP with plugin, or the GIMP on VM route.