For Windows Download Requires Windows 2000, XP or Vista. Supports Photoshop versions 7, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 and Photoshop Elements versions 5 and 6. Supports Paint Shop Pro X2 and probably earlier versions. For Photoshop CS4 64-bit users: to use tintii with this version you will need the 64-bit alternative available here. This is still experimental, please let me know how you get on with it.

For Mac Download Requires Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or later on PowerPC or Intel architecture. Supports Photoshop versions 7, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 (32-bit) and Photoshop Elements versions 5 and 6.

For Linux Download Includes source, distributed under GPLv2 license.

Installation on Windows

The Windows download is a setup executable that you can run to install tintii in the usual manner. If you elect to install the Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro plugin, the setup program will automatically try to detect the location of Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro on your computer and install the plugin accordingly. You should be able to locate tintii via the Filters > indii.org > tintii menu item in Photoshop, or Effects > Plugins menu item in Paint Shop Pro. If you cannot, follow the instructions below for a manual install.

If you have had to perform a manual install as below, please email me to let me know the location of your Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro installation. I can add it to the tintii installer to make updating easier for you in future!

For Photoshop or Photoshop Elements

The plugin is a file tintii.8bf in the location where you installed tintii, usually c:\Program Files\indii.org\tintii. Create a shortcut to this file, or copy it into, the Plug-Ins directory of your Photoshop installation, usually something like C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop *\Plug-Ins. Creating a shortcut is preferable, as it will make updating easier in future.

You will need to restart Photoshop before tintii appears.

For Paint Shop Pro

The plugin is a file tintii.8bf in the location where you installed tintii, usually c:\Program Files\indii.org\tintii. Copy this file into the Languages\YOUR_LANGUAGE\PlugIns directory of your Paint Shop Pro installation, usually at something like C:\Program Files\Corel\Corel Paint Shop Pro*.

For example, for an English installation of Paint Shop Pro X2, you would usually copy the tintii.8bf file into C:\Program Files\Corel\Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2\Languages\EN\PlugIns.

Note that unlike with Photoshop, you cannot simply create a shortcut to the file, it must be copied. You will need to restart Paint Shop Pro before tintii appears.

Installation on Mac

The Mac download is a disk image that contains an installer package. Simply run this to install tintii in the usual fashion. The standalone application will be installed to /Applications/tintii. If you elect to install the plugin, it will be located at /Library/indii.org/plugins/tintii.plugin.

The installer will attempt to automatically detect the location of Photoshop on your Mac and install the tintii plugin there. You should be able to access the plugin via the Filters > indii.org > tintii menu item in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. If you cannot, you will need to install it manually.

To install manually, locate your Photoshop Plug-ins directory, usually at /Applications/Adobe Photoshop*/Plug-ins. Create an alias to, or copy the /Library/indii.org/plugins/tintii.plugin file into there. Restart Photoshop, and tintii should appear.

If you have had to perform a manual install like this, please email me to let me know where your Photoshop is installed. I can add this location to the installer to make updating easier for you in future!

Installation on Linux and other Unix variants

See README.txt after downloading and extracting source for installation instructions.

An experimental version of the tintii plugin for users of 64-bit Photoshop CS4 on Windows is now available. It may be downloaded from here. A couple of minor bug fixes have also been made to the 32-bit Windows, Mac and Linux releases, all of this coming under a new version number of 2.2.3.
The standard version [...]

Version 2.2.2 of tintii has been released, featuring user interface and performance improvements, specifically:

Added “click and drag” scrolling to preview image.
Added “thumb tracking” to sliders — preview image updates live as sliders move.
More performance improvements.
Restored OpenMP support on Windows for multithreading on multicore processors, adding Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package to installer.
Reduced flicker problems [...]

Additional installation instructions for tintii have been added to the download page for Windows, Mac and Linux. They will be particularly useful when the installer packages fail to automatically detect the locations of Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro to install the tintii plugin.