UPDATE (2005/10/15): New Version! I created a new version of GIMPshop for Windows since Scott released the source of GIMPshop 2.2.8. You can get it here.
These Photoshop users get some help now by Scott Moschella's GIMPshop (Announcing GIMPshop). Basically it is just a hack of the current GIMP-sourcecode changing the menustructure, naming and key-bindings to be more like Photoshop. Scott did this for Max OS X, but there are already packages for several linux flavours.
Since win32 ports don't really work, I took what I found in the comments of Scott's article and created an installer for Windows (tested on WinXP and Win2k) which should make the installation easy and should work for everyone. Also it is just 7.9MB small (thanks to LZMA compression). It is all you need. GTK is included and all unnecessary files have been removed. These are the gimp-gtk docs, the inlude files and all localization files. The latter don't make any sense, since Scott did the port in English only. Additionally I included the GIMP Deweirdifier Plugin which puts all GIMP windows in a single parent window to keep your Windows taskbar clean.
Get the installation binaries here:
GIMPshop_0.1beta_Setup.exe (includes GTK Wimp theme now)
Mirror 1 (thx to Suramya)
Mirror 2 (donated by James Lenhart)
Mirror 3 (thx to www.nisbetdesign.com)
You can find several links to the source in Scott's article
Find more info and tutorials on the official Gimp website, the gimp user group and in the Gimp resources at Deviant Art
Now have fun playing with your new toy and alot of thanks go out to Scott for this great hack!
Peace out
Matthias
UPDATE:
I just added the GTK Wimp theme to my installer to get the Windows Look'n'Feel. I didn't make it optional since I think Windows users wouldn't want the GTK look'n'feel anyway. You can still get the old installer without GTK Wimp here. Let me know what you think.
I changed the version number to .1 beta as several people told me Scott does. Also if there is any more interest in this package I'd appreciate any mirrors to make it permanent (since uploadtemple.com deletes files after 30 days).
UPDATE 2: I forgot to mention the credits for compiling go out to Hybr1s, thx Hybr1s! I also updated the download location to the mirror kindly donated by Suramya.
UPDATE 3 (2005-06-07): I want to clarify some things: I am not doing any development on GIMPshop. I merely did the packaging for Windows. I don't know when the next version will be there. Only Scott at plasticbugs.com knows. When it is there you can be sure to get the Windows port here and there will also be version for Win98/ME. Until then I kindly ask you to be patient.
thx for your work, dude!
This is perfect, the plasticbugs guy should make this the official Win Port. Works GREAT!
thx ;) After watching the traffic on my blog rise I wondered, why there where no comments. Now I figured the CVS version of my blog software was messy.. Just fixed that and be happy to receive your thanks :-)
I just made a new package btw which includes GTK Wimp, which allows Windows Look'n'Feel in Gimpshop for Windows.. I'll put it on the site in a minute g
Is the gimp open source?
I'm glad somebody finally did something about my shoddy packaging job
The inclusion of GTK-Wimp is a good idea, makes it look alot better than before. One thing I noticed is you have the version as 2.2.4. I think Scott said to consider it as .1 beta or something similar. Other than that Great Job.
Hehe. Were you the one who compiled it for win in the first place? Because I just repackaged it to run without all that copying (gimpshop over original gimp).
I didn't notice any versioning by Scott so I assumed the gimp version#.. I'll change it to .1 beta now. g
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Nice job !!! Was hoping someone would package it with the GTK+ 2 runtime to avoid the installation odyssey.
A nice side-effect of you leaving out the localisation files is that the full beauty is now easily accesible for non-US systems without having to set the time zone.
Thumbs up !
That was my though. The locales files don't make any sense anyway since they were not changed to be like the localized versions of Photoshop. I for one would not even be able to use a Photoshop/Gimp in my native language since the translations are mostly artificial words which would be new to me.
Hi!
Thanks for your awesome work getting GIMPShop to us Windows users!
I've put up a website - http://www.gimpshop.net/ - it's all about GIMPShop and other open source projects.
I have been trying to put your feed up on my site through a service called Feeddigest.com and they are getting some errors from your RSS and ATOM feeds that you might want to know about. Here's what they sent me:
Our servers keep getting:
500 Can't connect to blog.yumdap.net:80 (connect: timeout)
I tried to diagnose it. I can ping blog.yumpdap.net from my home machine, but from the FeedDigest proxy server.. no pings. They both get the right IP. I did a traceroute and it seems 81.169.160.62 (some IP at your Web host, I imagine) is rejecting traffic from FeedDigest's IPs, but allows other stuff through. So.. this seems to be an issue at your ISP.
Our proxy server's IP is 67.15.191.5, if this helps you with further enquiries. I'd be worried that your ISP is rejecting traffic at all, as it may mean many people cannot view your site correctly.
dakira, Would you like me to mirror this file on my site? I'd be more than happy to (with a link back to you, of course).
Thanks for porting GIMPshop to Windows!
-Scott
Yeah.. that would be nice!
great work this install was so much easier then the previous one i had been holding off sending the windows port to my friends cause it was kinda sloppy but now i've been sendin it out to everyone so thanx for all your hard work to scott, hybr1s, and dakira
wonder if someone will make a torrent for this i'd gladly seed it
Awesome job. This is one of the best ports of GIMPShop to Windows I have seen so far.
I have created a mirror for GIMPShop on my website at: http://mirror.suramya.com. (Direct Download link for Windows exe: http://mirror.suramya.com/redirect.php?id=5)
Feel free to post this on your site as a permanent mirror. :)
Let me know if you have any problems/questions.
- Suramya
Did anyone try it out on WinXP's restricted users and standard user log-ins? We're having some trouble that the hacked shortcuts revert to their old (original GIMP) shortcuts.
When used with Administrator rights... all runs well. Anyone would care to try and check it out?
I can tell you right away what the problem is. It is rather with Scott's hack. The ps shortcuts come with it but are not installed. The ps-menurc is there with GIMP anyway. It is normal you have to copy it from etc to $user.gimp-2.2.
What I did is save singleusersystems some work and create that directory on installation and copy the file there.
So if anyone knows where gimp stores it's standard-menurc values they could be changed so that the ps keybinding are the default..
Dakira,
It seems that you also have to copy the menurc file along with the ps-menurc file inside the $user/gimp 2.2 folder.
I'm still testing it for any side effects though.
in fact the menurc file is the only file to be copied. The ps-menurc is not looked at by gimp until renamed.. in my package ps-menurc and menurc in etc/gimp/2.2 are the same (since I first thought replacing the original would change the default.. which was wrong).
I have tried what you described and it stills comes back to the old GIMP if you dont have admin rights!
Could you please help? Could you describe the steps again? Is it working for you? THANKS
Sorry. I don't think I can help you because I don't know what exactly your problem is. Most people think GIMPshop is a 100% clone of photoshop. This IS NOT the case! If you don't install the GIMP Deweirdifier you still have all those GIMP Windows. The only thing changed is the menu structure. Create a new image. The image window has it's own menu. THIS is the menu that is supposed to look like Photoshop. Nothing else. The copy-instructions above are for the keyboard shortcuts only. The have nothing to do with the look.
I copied C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\etc\gimp\2.0\ps-menurc to C:\Documents and Settings\<user>.gimp-2.2\ and renamed it just "menurc" - replaced the one that was already there. I am set up in single-user mode and it worked. Anyway, a couple things you may want to do is set the edit-clear to "delete" and select-none to "escape" - much easier to deal with.
nice work, was hoping for somehing to make my Gimp experience a little easier, as I am more or less a non techie and cant use linux very well, but I do happen to be a graphic designer looking for an alternative to photoshop. Unfortunately, old habits are hard to break and this helps make it a little easier for us.
sorry for the double post, just one thing to ask.
Whenever i click outside the docks, the dock windows disappear and must be recalled back manually. Any way to prevent that? i realise it is probably a gimp question, or perhaps of the deweirdifier, but still askin.
Great work, much appreciated.
I'm having a (small) problem, though, in that when I minimize The GIMP and then maximize it again I get a blank, greyed-out 'Open Image' dialogue window, which doesn't respond to attempts to close it. The only way to get rid of said window is to get a proper 'Open Image' window up (File/Open), which then takes the place of the intruder window, and becomes closable. This only seems to occur when I have an image open. Any suggestions?
From what I know the problem is with the GIMP Deweirdifier and it should disappear if you just remove the "backgroundwindow"-plugin from the plugins directory. The facy windows xp designs seem to be problematic, too.
This is good. I am forced to use a Windoze box at work. I have a Mac at home and need Photoshop-like abilities at work. This will allow me to do at least a little something on this crappy OS.
Any screenshots available ?
I am willing to download, but just wanted to see the screenshot(s) before downloading, since am on dial-up connection.
regards
There are alot of screenshots in the original article of Scott. So I'd advice you to go there for the screenshots (the link is somehwere in my article).
I've put up a mirror at http://www.nisbetdesign.com/gimpshop/GIMPshop0.1betaSetup.exe
Will you marry me? Thanks SO MUCH!!
Hey I dont know how or who to contact in this matter, but I would be more then willing to make a permanent mirror link for you guys. I have a server that virtually has unlimited bandwith. If you would like to talk to me more about it, Email me at sipherx-at-gmail-dot-com
Thanks. I made my email like that, so I dont get spammed.
By the way, I just now thought about it, I didnt make it clear that I am donating this mirror so I am not charging for this mirror, its got a very fast connection running to it, and it is very stable and steady. The reason why I wanted someone to email me is, is because I can setup a custom domain for example http://mydomain.com/whatever you want/ or whateveryouwant.mydomain.com So give me an email.
Another mirror here...
http://ri0t.info/bandwidth/GIMPshop0.1betaSetup.exe
This looks really awesome... I'm not going to throw away Photoshop just yet, though ;) I wonder if Adobe will try n' stop this project somehow being as it could start cutting into Photoshop sales if it gets really popular.
New mirror in Hungary 8).
www.kronart.hu/archiv/gimpshop0.1betasetup.exe
Sadly i can't even start this program in Win98. Was very excited with your windows version, so that was a big disappointment! :-( Below is the error message i get on opening - it is my hope there will be a fix sometime in the future?
GIMPSHOP caused an invalid page fault in
module LIBGTK-WIN32-2.0-0.DLL at 015f:00d3d69e.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=015f EIP=00d3d69e EFLGS=00010206
EBX=015002e0 SS=0167 ESP=0134f730 EBP=0134f758
ECX=00000000 DS=0167 ESI=01500330 FS=2b3f
EDX=00000008 ES=0167 EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
83 38 00 74 0a 47 8b 4d ec 83 3c b9 00 75 f6 8d
Stack dump:
00ede2e5 014feed0 0134ff68 7800db11 780332a0 00000000 015002f0 009580e8 01500330 014feed0 0134f7b8 0094b6f3 015002e0 01500200 00000000 00000044
The question is: does the original gimp run in win98? What you could try is the following: Don't install the gimp deweirdifier (single window option in installer). Then you might try to remove the GTK Wimp files (because this might be winxp only). In the next installer I will make the latter optional if this really causes it not to work in 98. I have no gimpshop on the machine i'm on atm, so I ca't tell you where to locate the GTK wimp files. I'll get to it when I'm back home on Sunday.
FYI - i have since upgraded and installed GIMPshop in Win2000 and WinXP. Both worked wonderfully. This is just awesome - thank you and keep up the incredible work!!
I can't get it to run on win98 either. I installed it on my winxp machine last night and it runs like a charm. Awesome port guys. Thanks for the hard work :)
I have WIn98 second edition and I cannot get Gimp to load and have the same problem.
What is teh answer PLEASE>>>>>>>>>>>
Regards
Tony
Luc seems to be a simular prob here I am trying to find the answer but I think it is down to these intelligent guys to show us the patch we need to solve this problem as you can see the details of the problem are:
GIMPSHOP caused an invalid page fault in
module LIBGTK-WIN32-2.0-0.DLL at 017f:00d3d69e.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=017f EIP=00d3d69e EFLGS=00010206
EBX=014e2a80 SS=0187 ESP=0134f730 EBP=0134f758
ECX=00000000 DS=0187 ESI=014e2b30 FS=13c7
EDX=00000008 ES=0187 EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
83 38 00 74 0a 47 8b 4d ec 83 3c b9 00 75 f6 8d
Stack dump:
00ede2e5 014d9570 0134ff68 7800db11 780332a0 00000000 014e2a90 009580e8 014e2b30 014d9570 0134f7b8 0094b6f3 014e2a80 014e27d0 00000000 00000044
So how about it Gimp have you a patch?
Tony
Update: I used whiskey's comments on the gimpshop creator's site to try and make it work. We have to first install gtk2+, then gimp, then finally install gimpshop. Then we have to copy all of gimpshop folder's files into the gimp folder, thereby replacing the original gimp folder's stuff.
Now I tried this, and the errors stopped, but the interface is just REGULAR gimp!!! Not photshopized!!!!
Some people have reported that it has been working, but some screenshots would be nice. I don't understand what on earth to do to make gimpshop run to look like photoshop. Even following the instructions on the other site, still I'm getting the standard GIMP menus!
Gimp shop is very good for design.
I installed gimpshop with the background window option. There are a few issues I noticed with that... the first being that the child windows it opens aren't actually opened inside the background window, they're opened on top of it, which negates the purpose of having a background window. The background window can't be closed either. Exiting gimpshop leaves it open, and the exit option in the file menu for the window doesn't work. I have to kill it each time from the task manager.
It would also be nice if the options from the main child window (like open, save, etc) were available in the main window.
the bg-window only works if it knows the name of the gimp .executable (can be set in options->setup). I solved this by adding a registry key on installation-time. This might not work if you don't install as admin.
I just dont get why the mac and linux versions of gimpshop are fine, and yet the windows version is so riddled with bugs and problems. Conspiracy theories.....
The Mac and Linux version have the advantage that both systems have GTK installed. Both systems have a good windowmanager. A "clean" windows version works fine, too but looks bad. That's why I included the GIMP deweirdifier and the GTK Wimp theme.. Either of those might pose a problem in old windows versions. WinXP and Win2k users don't seem to have any problems.
I'm no pro in writing installer scripts, so I didn't know, yet how to seperate the GTK Wimp theme and the rest of GIMP. For the next release I'll have figured out how to do it and win98 users should have no problem. For the time being I'd try to compile it yourself for Win98 (see http://linux.suramya.com/tutorials/Install_GIMPShop/)..
I am windows XP, and it just looks like plain old gimp :(
The first time I tried it I got the old Gimp windows, but it worked the second time
For whatever reason it works fine as administrator, but it won't let me set the window exe when I'm running as a user. (Gimpshop was installed as administrator)
you can try this: The options of the backgroundwindow are stored in the registry (hkeylocalmachine i think). Try to export them and modify the .reg file from hklm to hkcu and import it as the user you want to use it with. this might work but i'm not too sure about it ;) The GIMP Deweirdifier is VERY buggy and I'd rather recommend NOT installing it.
GOOD WORK! This is great :)
I still like the Gimp. It's a great piece of work!
But IMHO GimpShop is just more 'usable'...
Does anyone know how to switch GTK Themes on Windows?
Could someone give me instructions as to what EXACTLY to do/install in order to make this work with photoshop like menus on it?
I'm starting with nothing gimp related insatlled :D Except I think I still have gtk from yesterday when I tried to make it work. Nevermind, just assume I have nothing gimp related installed, nothing linux related installed, and I'm on winXP. I'll reinstall gtk on top of the current files (if they are there still).
Thanks in advance for any help, I'd be grateful :D
Here is what I do on a clean XP: I double-click the installer, install everything and it works. Just as that. You have to be an admin user, though.
Yargh thats what I did and it said "libglib.2.0.0_.dll is missing"
I uninstalled gtk2 and then instlaled from the links on this page, and still it comes up as old gimp. Oh well, it was not meant to be I think :(
It's nice but there's 3 Sharpens and that might be confusing to newbies. The one under Enhance is the one everyone is used to and thinks of. If the other two Sharpens have anything to do with that one, couldn't they be put as sub-menu items under it?
If you had read my post you'd know I have nothing to do with gimpshop except packaging it for windows. Please go to Scotts blog and post your recommendations there or contact him directly. Your suggestion sound pretty good.
I seem to have a language problem with this install, I get polish menus and tips
I have winxp with polish language support because polish language doesn't display properly without it, but it doesnt mesn i want polish language apps on my pc. life is hard enough ;)
I cant find a language option anywhere
hard looking through polish menus anyway
any idea's how to install with an english interface
that is VERY strange since I removed ALL localizations. Anyway.. you can fix this by setting up a environment variable LANGUAGE and set it to 'en'.
how would I do that?
never played with environment variables
sorry to sound a bit thick, a little more information is needed.
Right-click on "My Computer" and go to Properties -> Advanced -> Ennvironment Variables.
Seems to work great if I open the app directly :-)
However, if I double click on an image (already associated with gimpshop), then I get an error stating "libglib.2.0.0_.dll is missing" during program startup. This is followed by other "missing errors" and the program fails to load properly.
Can't complain though. Overall a great product, and free too! Good work.
P.S. I'm a WinXP user on an Athlon XP 1900+, 512Mb Ram.
It doesn't work right under WinXP. I still get the regular Gimp UI.
Same for me :(
Same here. XP Home SP2
Same here, Win XP Professonal SP2
Are you using GIMPshop under a different user -rights? It seems GIMPshop is needs Admin access.
try copying the ps-menurc file inside your profiles gimp 2.2 folder.
Congratulations to Scott for this great job. But I'm still having the problem that I have to change the system-language for using gimpshop. Because I'm using gimp in school with my pupils in Austria, this is a sad fact when you want to use Gimpshop in a network with limited rights on each workstation. If anybody has a solution for this problem, please help me. If you need somebody for translating the menues, I would do that.
I removed all the lanuage files so it should be English all the time. If you want it in German, have a look at the original GIMP and look out for locales directories. This is where the language files are. Just copy the German locales directory to the same location in the GIMPshop tree. All your pupils will have a German GIMPshop then. But it will be with the original GIMP German translation and not with the namings the German Photoshop uses. If your pupils are not too young I'd let them use the English version. When I was a kid (10 years old) there was no German software and I had to cope with what I get. This way I picked up alot of English before even having classes in school. ;)
Can't get scanner working in GIMPshop, crashes with error in twain.exe + kernel32.dll :(
mhh.. I have no scanner to test this. But there definately are still alot of problems with gimpshop. I'll ask friends to test this, but until now I think one should consider the .1 beta as a technical preview ;)
Hi, I just installed Gimpshop onto my XP SP2 machine and I get this odd error popup when I start and when I try to save using the program. I hit continue a couple of times and it seems to open and work fine. Error message: "There is no disk in drive. Please insert a disk into drive\Device\Harddisk6\DR10"
I can hit cancel and it does the same thing, pops up a couple of times then it starts normally. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Ok, I found the problem with my error messages. This is actually a known bug with GIMP and not the XP port. It was caused by a card reader with empty bays on it. If you run into this no disk error, try removing any card readers from your system. (ie. flash drive readers, 6 in 1 media drives etc)
Nice! Thx for the tip!
Just ran into the same issue, and found a solution at the following webpage:
http://www.tech-recipes.com/windows_tips506.html
In a nutshell, I had a device labeled as drive I:
I changed it to M:
Issue resolved.
What a great idea, but may be there is a much simpler solution to do this.
I really appreciate Scott's idea, but after i read through the bunch of problems on this page I begun to compare the GIMPShop with the original GIMP.
What I have found:
The Menu structure:
The menu structure builded from XML files. Scott made a great work and changed them to reflect the structure of Photoshop.
If You copy these files from the GIMPShop installation under the original GIMP installation folder then you have the new, PhotoShop like menu structure, BUT with original GIMP'ish menu texts.
I have tested this with the new 2.2.6 version also.
The files located under GIMP\share\gimp\2.0\menus\
The Shortcuts:
The PhotoShop shortcut file part of the original GIMP distribution.
You can found the file under GIMP\etc\gimp\2.0\ named ps-menurc.
The top of this file:
; This file installs keyboard shortcuts from Photoshop 6 in GIMP 2.2.
;
; Rename it to 'menurc' and place it into your personal GIMP directory:
; ~/.gimp-2.2 folder (Linux) or C:\Documents and Settings\<user>.gimp-2.2
; folder (Windows).
;
; There is a web-page describing these keybindings at
; http://epierce.freeshell.org/gimp/gimpps.php
The Menu texts:
Scott modified 87 source files which contains the menu texts to make the wonder.
There is a big backdraw of this method: you have to compare and modify these source files with every new release of GIMP.
This can cause a big leap after the release of a new version.
BUT there is a much simplier solution.
You can localize the GIMP by setting the LANG System variable under Windows enviroment (check the help for other systems).
Then the GIMP going to use the \GIMP\lib\locale\ files to display the menu and all other texts.
These files also have to be compiled from the source, but I think to much simplier to maintain 5 files which holds these texts what are created for this purpose than maintain the real source at every new release.
You can found these files in the source distribution under the po folders (po, po-libgimp, po-script-fu, po-plug-ins).
And here is my idea: we can make a new language - for example ENPS (based on the ENGB version) - and we can make all necessary changes in these files.
Then we have just 5 files to compile and distribute instead of the whole application.
After that we have to do just one simple step to get the GIMPShop: set the LANG to ENPS.
Unfortunatly I don't know C, so I can't do this on my own, but if Dakira or Hybr1s can accept my solution then they able to compile these