PSPI - run Photoshop plug-ins under the Gimp!
Well, finally, I have a little raised karma, I will try to write here my first topic ...
So, what I always lacked when working with GIMP was photoshop plug-ins. Yes, of course, they have their own image processing tools, but they are often not enough. When, once again, a picture was laid out on the “leprosy” with a Fractalius photo filter, I was stuck with envy, and I climbed to meticulously google something similar under the hymn. And I found PSPI - an “adapter” between GIMP and “3rd-party Photoshop plug-ins (.8bf files)”. The Linux version of the PSPI was released back in March 2006, but as it turns out, he knows far from all of it ...
So, how to do it: go to the PSPI page and download the archive for your system. Personally, I downloaded the Ubuntu binaries and although version 5.10 is listed there, it got up perfectly and at 7.10 with Gimp version 2.4. We unpack the archive and put the pspi and pspi.exe.so files into the $ HOME / .gimp-2.4 / plug-ins folder. Next, create a separate folder for photoshop plugins, for example, $ HOME / photoshop-pluins. In it we dump, respectively, all the necessary plugins. Start the Gimp, select the menu "Advanced" (Xtns) and in it "Photoshop Plug-in Settings" and add the path with your folder with the plug-ins there. Reboot Gimp and in the filter menu we get a favorite set of photoshop plugins.
Thus, it can be said that Gimp approached Photoshop at a fairly close distance. In fact, for home use it is more than enough ...
So, what I always lacked when working with GIMP was photoshop plug-ins. Yes, of course, they have their own image processing tools, but they are often not enough. When, once again, a picture was laid out on the “leprosy” with a Fractalius photo filter, I was stuck with envy, and I climbed to meticulously google something similar under the hymn. And I found PSPI - an “adapter” between GIMP and “3rd-party Photoshop plug-ins (.8bf files)”. The Linux version of the PSPI was released back in March 2006, but as it turns out, he knows far from all of it ...
So, how to do it: go to the PSPI page and download the archive for your system. Personally, I downloaded the Ubuntu binaries and although version 5.10 is listed there, it got up perfectly and at 7.10 with Gimp version 2.4. We unpack the archive and put the pspi and pspi.exe.so files into the $ HOME / .gimp-2.4 / plug-ins folder. Next, create a separate folder for photoshop plugins, for example, $ HOME / photoshop-pluins. In it we dump, respectively, all the necessary plugins. Start the Gimp, select the menu "Advanced" (Xtns) and in it "Photoshop Plug-in Settings" and add the path with your folder with the plug-ins there. Reboot Gimp and in the filter menu we get a favorite set of photoshop plugins.
Thus, it can be said that Gimp approached Photoshop at a fairly close distance. In fact, for home use it is more than enough ...
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/18407/
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