If you are having an error message when trying to open a photoshop file in Gimp , you have found the answer.

Gimp 2.8 is having an issue opening photoshop files. With this solution you should be able to open photoshop files and edit them in Gimp , the free photoshop software solution. I have Gimp 2.8 and Ghostscript version 9.14 and these steps worked perfect , operating system is Windows 7 64 bit.

1. You must download and install Ghostscript 9.14 (no email address or other bs needed, Ghostscript is a GNU software that     is totally free and been under development for over 20 years). You can download it here
http://www.ghostscript.com/download/gsdnld.html

2. If you don’t have the latest,  best free photoshop alternative Gimp 2.8 You can download it here
http://www.gimp.org/

3. Go to your Program files and find  Computer/Program Files/gs/gs9.14
Open the bin folder  (example: C:\Program Files\gs\gs9.14\bin)
Right Click the file gsdll64  and copy

4. Open the Gimp  folder ( example:     C:\Program Files\Gimp2\)
Right Click the bin folder and Paste

5. Now open the Gimp bin folder

6. Scroll down and rename the file libgs-8 to libgs-8.old

7. Scroll back up and rename gsdll64 to libgs-8

Restart Gimp

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