diff --git a/3rdparty/ext_gmic/CMakeLists.txt b/3rdparty/ext_gmic/CMakeLists.txt
index 6117b07efe..7be84ac03a 100644
--- a/3rdparty/ext_gmic/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/3rdparty/ext_gmic/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,45 +1,38 @@
 SET(PREFIX_ext_gmic "${EXTPREFIX}" )
 
 # Download the gmic sources
-if (WIN32)
-    # gmic uses a shell script with wget to download some files which won't work
-    # on Windows, so we use CMake to download them instead
-    set(_GMIC_BUILD_COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -P ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/gmic-downloads.cmake)
-else (WIN32)
-    set(_GMIC_BUILD_COMMAND make -C src CImg.h gmic_stdlib.h)
-endif (WIN32)
 ExternalProject_Add( ext_gmic_base
     DOWNLOAD_DIR ${EXTERNALS_DOWNLOAD_DIR}
-    GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/dtschump/gmic.git
-    GIT_TAG master
-    GIT_SHALLOW 1
+    URL http://gmic.eu/files/source/gmic_2.1.3.tar.gz
+    URL_HASH SHA1=f0832766f009a74287bb9fdbe013f4a84db1ad76
 
     SOURCE_DIR gmic
 
     CONFIGURE_COMMAND ""
-    BUILD_COMMAND ${_GMIC_BUILD_COMMAND}
+    BUILD_COMMAND ""
     INSTALL_COMMAND ""
 
     BUILD_IN_SOURCE 1
 )
 
 # Download and build gmic-qt
 # FIXME: Forcing CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE to Release
 ExternalProject_Add( ext_gmic_qt
     DOWNLOAD_DIR ${EXTERNALS_DOWNLOAD_DIR}
-    URL https://github.com/c-koi/gmic-qt/archive/v.211.tar.gz
-    URL_HASH SHA1=776db5f77a4044711a9c4a4b0c6533556f4b810d
+    URL https://github.com/c-koi/gmic-qt/archive/v.213.tar.gz
+    DOWNLOAD_NAME gmic-qt_2.1.3.tar.gz
+    URL_HASH SHA1=8c6489da2ce44ae3eae6ab7e9cf7b45716c0aacd
 
     SOURCE_DIR gmic-qt
     INSTALL_DIR ${PREFIX_ext_gmic}
 
     CMAKE_ARGS -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${PREFIX_ext_gmic} -DGMIC_QT_HOST=krita -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ${GLOBAL_PROFILE}
 
     UPDATE_COMMAND ""
     INSTALL_COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy <BINARY_DIR>/gmic_krita_qt${CMAKE_EXECUTABLE_SUFFIX} <INSTALL_DIR>/bin/gmic_krita_qt${CMAKE_EXECUTABLE_SUFFIX}
 
     DEPENDS ext_gmic_base
 )
 
 add_custom_target(ext_gmic)
 add_dependencies(ext_gmic ext_gmic_qt)
diff --git a/3rdparty/ext_gmic/gmic-downloads.cmake b/3rdparty/ext_gmic/gmic-downloads.cmake
deleted file mode 100644
index 7bd4116961..0000000000
--- a/3rdparty/ext_gmic/gmic-downloads.cmake
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-message(STATUS "> Retrieve G'MIC Standard Library...")
-file(DOWNLOAD http://gmic.eu/gmic_stdlib.h ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/src/gmic_stdlib.h)
-message(STATUS " done!")
-
-message(STATUS "> Retrieve CImg Library...")
-file(DOWNLOAD https://github.com/dtschump/CImg/raw/master/CImg.h ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/src/CImg.h)
-message(STATUS " done!")