


Navigate to Applications -> Utilities and select XQuartz.You’ll be asked to locate X11.app right away. Once you’ve installed XQuartz, launch Gimp.At one point you’ll need to enter your OS X password. Click your way through the installation process.dmg file and run the installer package (XQuartz.pkg).


If it’s 2.8.0p1 or higher, proceed to the next step. In the ‘next’ column look to see which Version of Gimp you’re using. Select Gimp in your Applications by clicking on it once. If your “view” isn’t set to “columns” – switch it now (you can switch back to your default as soon as you’re finished this step). Open a Finder window and navigate to your Applications folder.After upgrading to Mountain Lion, when you launch GIMP for the first time, you may get a message asking if you’d like to install X11 now.If you still want to install GIMP using the X11 version, the steps below are still accurate.īackground: OS X 10.8 doesn’t come shipped with X11 anymore, so you’ll need to download an alternative and possibly upgrade your version of GIMP. That version comes as a standard DMG, and all you’ll need to do is open the DMG file and drag GIMP.app to your Applications folder. Simply visit the GIMP download page and locate the Native Build for OS X. The GIMP developers have created a “Native Build” of the GIMP, which means you no longer need to install any additional software in order to use it (and it works in Mountain Lion). Update: while the steps in this tutorial are still valid, they’re also no longer necessary. This brief tutorial will show you how to get GIMP working again in OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion).
