:Linux.com: Running Photoshop Plugins in the GIMP, Even Under Linux
Linux.com: Running Photoshop Plugins in the GIMP, Even Under Linux Apr 12, 2006, 06 :00 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (6984 reads) (Other stories by Nathan Willis)
"Linux advocates are familiar with the refrain that would-be switchers in the graphic arts have to rely on Adobe Photoshop under Windows because it can do things that the GIMP can't. An important but altogether different hurdle is the installed (and paid-for) base of often expensive third-party Photoshop plugins. But a solution to that problem might be easier than you think.
"The key is a piece of software called pspi (for Photoshop Plugin Interface), written by GIMP hacker Tor Lillqvist. It is a GIMP plugin that acts as a bridge between the GIMP and Photoshop plugins; to the Photoshop plugin it looks like a full, running copy of Photoshop. It provides the hooks into the menus and functions of Photoshop that the plugin expects to see, and connects them to the GIMP's extension and menu system..."
