Need Advice on Plugin Installation

[Chaplain Mark]

(01-20-2018, 09:33 AM)rich2005 Wrote: The NIK filters are not Gimp plug-ins. They are Ad*be PS filters that do not natively work in Gimp.

There is a work-around using a Gimp plugin shellout.py

The easiest way for the less-than-confident is use a version of Gimp where shellout is already set up.

This is one for Windows but it is the development version Gimp 2.9 see: http://www.partha.com This is separate from Gimp 2.8 so you do not lose your existing Gimp installation.  

Although this comes with the required shellout plugins it does not include the NIK collection which has to be installed separately (big and bloated) https://www.google.com/nikcollection/

If you search gimpchat.com there is more information as a starter: http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=13847 and  http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=13853

For a large ( about 400) collection of filters, there is a Gimp plugin gimp-gmic that comes with a Windows installer.
see: http://www.gmic.eu Some of these are equivalent to the effects from the NIK PS plugins.

For Gimp 2.8.x
Gimp plug-ins are generally single files, something.exe or something.py (occasionally a something.dll as well) and these go in your Gimp Profile: C:\Users\your-name\.gimp-2.8\plug-ins

There are other scripts something.scm that also add functionality to Gimp and these go in C:\Users\your-name\.gimp-2.8\scripts

Thanks so much, Rich, this was very helpful in giving me some perspective on the project.
Not really sure if I will carry on with attempting to graft the NIK plugins into my copy of GIMP; I do like to tinker with software, but the NIK installation sequence might be a bit too deep for me.
If anything, the gimp-gmic which ships with a Windows installer will be the most practical.

Thanks again, I appreciate your reply and help..!!

Chaplain Mark