Xero 8BF filters (windows only)

muffinn · **Joined:** Oct 04, 2016 **Posts:** 47

Can someone tell me where Harry's Filters appear in te Gimp Menu system when installed

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16191

muffinn wrote:

Can someone tell me where Harry's Filters appear in te Gimp Menu system when installed

I believe under Filters>The Plugin Site>

muffinn · **Joined:** Oct 04, 2016 **Posts:** 47

It's that I don't see

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16191

I recompiled all Harrys filters. They will now work in GIMP-2.8.22.

Link to ZIP file (sourceforge). 11.6 MB
https://sourceforge.net/projects/rods-c ... p/download

WAIT for the download to start!! It will start auto magically. =)

Menus locations ---
Filters>
Cryptology
Harrys Rave Grads
Harrys Power Grads
Mirror Rave
Nirvana
VideoRave

INSTALL instructions
Just unzip the folder to wherever you place your 8BF files for GIMP and start GIMP. Go to Filters>Photoshop Plugin Settings and point PSPI to the folder Harrys. Wherever you have placed it. Click OK and restart GIMP.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16191

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16191

Example - Filters>VideoRave>Swirl Distortion

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16191

muffinn · **Joined:** Oct 04, 2016 **Posts:** 47

Thanks for this but where do I locate/setup "Filters>Photoshop Plugin Settings".
I've looked in Preferences/Folder Options and under Filters on the menu bar...

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16191

muffinn wrote:

Thanks for this but where do I locate/setup "Filters>Photoshop Plugin Settings".
I've looked in Preferences/Folder Options and under Filters on the menu bar...

You have to have the 32 bit plug-in PSPI.exe in the plug-ins folder.
Attached here in a zip file also.
Place it (PSPI.exe) in your /.gimp-2.8/plug-ins folder and restart GIMP.

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muffinn · **Joined:** Oct 04, 2016 **Posts:** 47

Excellent thanks

They do work but I do get the following when I run Gimp:
pspi: LoadLibrary() failed for C:\Users\Mike\.gimp-2.8\plug-ins\HarrysFilters4\HarrysFilters4_64bit.8bf: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.

MareroQ · **Posted:** Thu Jun 15, 2017 10:27 am **(#31)**

@Muffin
You downloaded the wrong 64 bit version - you need a 32 bit version for Gimp (why - explanation in the first post).

@Rod
Thanks Rod for sharing (works very well also for Gimp 2.9).
How do you compile *.8bf plugins?

mackenzieh · **Posted:** Sat Apr 13, 2019 6:27 pm **(#32)**

Is the PSPI filter still in existence? Does PSPI work for gimp 2.10.10 windows 64 bit? If not, does the 32 bit filter work even though some are using 64 Bit? If it does, will the photoshop plugins work?

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16191

MareroQ wrote:

@Muffin
You downloaded the wrong 64 bit version - you need a 32 bit version for Gimp (why - explanation in the first post).

@Rod
Thanks Rod for sharing (works very well also for Gimp 2.9).
How do you compile *.8bf plugins?

Filter Meister. Soon to be open src my friend.

I just wish Filter Forge would allow for compiling filters to the Adobe 8BF format. So far they will not.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12850

Haven't heard about Fter Meister going OS, Rod. That is cool news.

Nidhogg · **Posted:** Sun Apr 14, 2019 7:49 am **(#35)**

mackenzieh wrote:

Is the PSPI filter still in existence? Does PSPI work for gimp 2.10.10 windows 64 bit? If not, does the 32 bit filter work even though some are using 64 Bit? If it does, will the photoshop plugins work?

I believe PSPI works on 2.10.10 same way than it did on 2.10.8 or 2.8.
It doesn't matter if your OS or Gimp is 64-bit, but the .8BF filters need to be 32-bit.
Meaning the old filters have better compatibility.

mackenzieh · **Posted:** Sun Apr 14, 2019 12:27 pm **(#36)**

Nidhogg wrote:

mackenzieh wrote:

Is the PSPI filter still in existence? Does PSPI work for gimp 2.10.10 windows 64 bit? If not, does the 32 bit filter work even though some are using 64 Bit? If it does, will the photoshop plugins work?

I believe PSPI works on 2.10.10 same way than it did on 2.10.8 or 2.8.
It doesn't matter if your OS or Gimp is 64-bit, but the .8BF filters need to be 32-bit.
Meaning the old filters have better compatibility.

Oh, that's cool. I was just curious. I tried to find the PSPI filter using the xero site, but the site is no longer available.

Nidhogg · **Posted:** Sun Apr 14, 2019 12:56 pm **(#37)**

No, but you can easily get them...
PSPI is executable, pspi.exe. You put it in the GIMP plug-ins folder. Use search, it's uploaded in GimpChat probably more than once, and you can't go wrong because there is only one version. The site of the original creator Tor Lillqvist is down.

8BF filters are the so-called Photoshop filters. You put em in their own folders. Start Gimp, there will be an entry in Filters menu to locate the folder where your .8bf files are. Restart of Gimp required.

Here is one page for the Xero filters, I see the 32-bit filters download is alive. Use virus scanner anyway, I can't check them because I've been using only Linux lately.
There's also "XERO XL". These are same , but they have bigger preview window, which is better because you can't resize the preview. Use XL version for those that you like.

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https://franiemargot.com/pages_divers/page_filtres.htm

mackenzieh · **Posted:** Mon Apr 15, 2019 1:03 pm **(#38)**

Nidhogg wrote:

No, but you can easily get them...
PSPI is executable, pspi.exe. You put it in the GIMP plug-ins folder. Use search, it's uploaded in GimpChat probably more than once, and you can't go wrong because there is only one version. The site of the original creator Tor Lillqvist is down.

8BF filters are the so-called Photoshop filters. You put em in their own folders. Start Gimp, there will be an entry in Filters menu to locate the folder where your .8bf files are. Restart of Gimp required.

Here is one page for the Xero filters, I see the 32-bit filters download is alive. Use virus scanner anyway, I can't check them because I've been using only Linux lately.
There's also "XERO XL". These are same , but they have bigger preview window, which is better because you can't resize the preview. Use XL version for those that you like.

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https://franiemargot.com/pages_divers/page_filtres.htm

Here's another page: http://www.creationsylvie.net/psp/filtres_psp.html

I searched for pspi.exe here and I don't see it.

Wallace · **Posted:** Mon Apr 15, 2019 1:18 pm **(#39)**

mackenzieh wrote:

Nidhogg wrote:

No, but you can easily get them...
PSPI is executable, pspi.exe. You put it in the GIMP plug-ins folder. Use search, it's uploaded in GimpChat probably more than once, and you can't go wrong because there is only one version. The site of the original creator Tor Lillqvist is down.

8BF filters are the so-called Photoshop filters. You put em in their own folders. Start Gimp, there will be an entry in Filters menu to locate the folder where your .8bf files are. Restart of Gimp required.

Here is one page for the Xero filters, I see the 32-bit filters download is alive. Use virus scanner anyway, I can't check them because I've been using only Linux lately.
There's also "XERO XL". These are same , but they have bigger preview window, which is better because you can't resize the preview. Use XL version for those that you like.

Code: Select all

https://franiemargot.com/pages_divers/page_filtres.htm

Here's another page: http://www.creationsylvie.net/psp/filtres_psp.html

I searched for pspi.exe here and I don't see it.

I have this pspi.exe file for you.
Not sure if it works with GIMP 2.10.

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pspi.zip [19.46 KiB]
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FlutteringBy · **Joined:** Nov 22, 2018 **Posts:** 83

Hi Wallace,
I use PSPI with gimp 2.10.10 & it works just fine....I'm so glad to be able to use a lot of the filters that I'm familiar with....

I'm also running Windows 10...