I'm certainly not the right person to ask about linux
maybe Tux or Partha

Yes, I know, I think maybe I will just forget about it and drool instead. I really like what that wireworm plug-in does and to me it is worth having.
I could always go over to Windoze but I don't want to.
thanks

Hy Molly
In linux first you need wine installed

then you may get much better results with RobA shell out script and Xnview (get the Windows version not the linux port..yes ,exactly as written not vice versa !)

Xnview will run very well with wine, and if called by the RobA script will open and colose automatically as was a plugin

with that you may run well most of photoshop plugin...no match with pspi

IN ANY CASE, even to use pspi for linux, you need Wine installed, even if is not written too clearly, Wine is strictly required to run PSPI in linux
(as it is required for xnview that i prefer much )

PS

64 or 32 bit should not be the problem :
if your gimp is compiled for 64 bit should have somewhere inside (not sure where on fedora ) a "32" folder where put plugin only at 32 bit as PSPI (again better xnview in my opinion )

PC, Installing wine won't harm My Fedora install, will it. I don't want to do anything that will screw that up.

well wine is well tested
i used on Ubuntu almost only to run xnview and Mandelbulb 3D but often and i never had problem, should no be problem on fedora too and should be in the official repository.

pspi would not give error messages if wine is missed (maybe it will with gimp in debug mode, but not normally) instead will simply refuse to show up and work

but i am not sure where is the 32 folder ,did you found it ?
in theory should not be strictly needed place there, the plugin has just 2 files neither should interfere with the 64bit plugins.

Anyway for sure Xnview will work if you have wine installed and will run well almost any PS plugin you may wish,
luckily RobA shellOut script is still compatible with gimp 2.8

okay, I have wine installed and rebooted. I have to go do supper so will be back later.
I have no idea what I do next.
I just want to be able to run wireworm.

Wireworm shows up as a bunch of garble in xnview. I think I will need a bit of a tutorial to figure out how to tie in Wine, xnview and wireworm. It is Greek to me. lol

Hi folks.

This filter should work if the PSPI plugin is in the 32 bit directory of Gimp-2.8.
Personally i would run it in XnView through shellout.

A 64 bit compiler is in the works for the new Filter Meister so when it is ready it will compile it's 8bf files in both 32 and 64 bit. So then this should no longer be an issue to run 8bf's directly in 64 bit hosts.

This came about when Adobe informally announced it probably will not make CS available in 32 bit starting with it's next release.So Alex understands 64 bit plugins will be essential if that happens.And so do all the other authors.

Yes.
By using the curves tool on a selection you can change the color to lighter or darker shade.
This is very, very, handy when trying to give an added or healed area of an image the same color shading.
For instance if i select a wire area in the image i want to remove or cover up.
I can then move that selection to another part of the image i like and copy>paste the selection.Now just make that copy and paste a new layer.Move the copied area over the area you want to fix and then use colors curves to fix the shading. If it's needed.Which it usually is. I have fixed many panoramas this way and older photographs.It's almost impossible to see the seams.

This bunch can never resist a challenge, submit one image or idea and get 200 responses, all of them right and different. This is good for even experienced users because it teaches old dogs new tricks. I think what really makes it good is that it never seems to be a contest.

Yeah, I love to have a go at these things but if somebody else can do better, fantastic. It teaches me something in the process.

+1 Erisian

Ok cheers Rod. My thinking was coming around to this as I'd hinted but via Adjust HLS. I'm going to set aside some time to work on my isolation chops as I still don't think I have it nailed and always have the dread feeling when I know I'm going to need to isolate an object, will be playing with the curves for sure

Gimp's curve tools are OK but I always feel I'm missing out on something are there any better (more powerful) curve tweaking tools around? (Maybe I should pull my finger out and learn to write plugins)

my experience is sometimes the cloner is too aggressive or uses a bit too much data than I need. In those situations I find it useful (though it takes a lot of work and time) to duplicate the layer and simply erase the object (takes a fine comb to do it properly) and then pencil in the background. For the air is it easy : colorpick from right next to the erased part.

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