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I used Adobe Photoshop - couple of years back when I was still using pirated software for my notebook. As we all know, Adobe Photoshop is the best and most expensive photo editor around. However, after using it for quite sometime, I don’t feel right with the pirated copy. In addition, the installer cdrom that I bought did not function properly. My Photoshop editing session sometimes behave “strangely” and it sometimes “hanged” my notebook.

I found GIMP as the replacement when I decided to jump into Open Source bandwagon, and never looked back since then. GIMP can do almost all the things that Adobe Photoshop can do, and it cost you almost nothing. I have experienced with the earlier version of GIMP (which was really buggy), but the latest version on GIMP is almost flawless. It can even use third party plugin for Adobe Photoshop.

pspi.exe

Tor Lillqvist wrote an executable file, pspi.exe, for Adobe Photoshop third party plugin lover in 2001. Pspi.exe is a GIMP plugin that runs 3rd party Photoshop plug-in filters. It can run Adobe Photoshop plugins with .8bf files.

How to install pspi.exe?

You need to have your own GIMP program yourself. Uninstall your pirated copy of Adobe Photoshop CS (if any), and get the GIMP installer package for Windows from GIMP.org.

Head to Tor Lillqvist’s page of pspi.exe plugin here. Download the Windows executable GIMP-pspi plugin.

Unzip it and put the file (pspi.exe) in your GIMP plugins folder. It is usually here: C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins.

Restart your GIMP. You should see “Photoshop Plug-ins Settings…” from Xtns menubar. Locate the folder where you put your Adobe Photoshop third party plugins, and put the link there.

For example, you can head to Flaming Pear Software for hot plugins for your GIMP. Bare in mind that a lot of third party plugins for Adobe Photoshop, especially which is free or “freeware” are mostly useless, as GIMP have their own plugins that can do better job then they are. You can test it before you have it as your favorite plugins.

*Attention for Linux users: You can also use Adobe Photoshop plugins in Linux!

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