With this plugin’s help, you can easily remove objects from photos, repeated textures for a better image, transparent tiles or healing, and transfer textures from one idea to another. I hope this little description helps you to use the NikSoftware Filter from withing Gimp, too.Resynthesizer is a unique plugin that every serious GIMP user must install. Now by using the Gimp ShellOut plugin, I have no need for using the PSPI Gimp plugin. So just select 2 or more images, and drag them onto HDR Efex Pro2, and voila. You can always drag 1 or more images directly to a Nik application. Thus it makes no sense to add HDR Efex Pro 2. Note that I have not added HDR Efex Pro 2: The reason is simple, the HDR technique merges two or more images together, ShellOut passes only the current layer to the external application.
In the above snippet I have added Color Efex Pro4, Silver Efex Pro2, Viveza2, Dfine2, and SharpenerPro3. Now your directory names may vary, so take the snippet as a sample.
Download the Gimp ShellOut plugin from, I downloaded ShellOut V 0.7.Check that Gimp has the python plugin installed, as ShellOut is python plugin.Download Gimp, I have installed Gimp 2.8.4.Now I try to describe step by step the installation and configuration steps: Thus I’ m now able to use the NikSoftware filters from gimp, directly thanks to the ShellOut Gimp plugin, and some simple configurations. Now if you think about it, that’s exactly the way Lightroom invokes the NikSoftware the terminoloy of Lightroom is less technical but basically it exports the image, and invokes the extenal NikSoftware application, not using the Photoshop plugin.
So I gave up, and forgot about using NikSoftware Filters from Gimp, as I was quite happy using Lightroom and NikSoftware.īut as another user on Google+ asked about using NikSoftware from Gimp, I thought about it again, and then I found a nice Gimp plugin called ShellOut, which is able to invoke external applications from within Gimp and passing the current layer to these external applications. I even was able to invoke the Color Efex Pro 4, and it opened, but the image shown by Color Efex Pro 4 was corrupted. I gave it try: I installed PSPI and registered the directory of the NikSoftware 32bit plugins. Now there is a Gimp Plugin called PSPI which stands for Photoshop-Plugin. Now I don’t own Photoshop, but I have installed Gimp 2.8.4, and from time to time I use various Gimp filters like G’MIC, or National Geographic.īut I was not able to use the NikSoftware Filter from Gimp as NikSoftware is shipped as Standalone-Executables, and as Photoshop-Plugins, but not as Gimp-Plugins. Usually I use them from Lightroom4, and that’s okay for me. Recently I bought NikSoftware Filters, like Color Efex, or Silver Efex.
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