Gimpdome

i'd hate to see you spend a bunch of money on something that may or may not work but you can install many ps plugins and have them work in gimp.  this is a link that explains how to do that.   The first entry is the one to read. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04/03/8-handy-tweaks-to-make-gimp-replace-photoshop/






 

i think you want to make a folder called photoshop plugins and put all the plugins there.  there tell gimp where to find them as explained.

if you do a search on "eye candy in gimp" you will find more discussions about doing this.  i'm not convinced that this will work at all.

Here's a topic I prepared on the subject of using PS plugins in GIMP: http://www.gimpdome.com/index.php?topic=3034.0  It's not specifically related to Eye Candy, but it may provide some useful information....then again, it may not.