G'mic 3.4.0: Image Processing in Its Prime

G'mic 3.4.0: Image Processing in Its Prime(gmic.eu)

71 points by dtschump 2 years ago | 9 comments

dtschump 2 years ago |

A new version 3.4.0 of G'MIC (GREYC's Magic for Image Computing) has just been released. With this new release, we celebrate the project's 16th anniversary!

On this occasion, we summarize the recent features added to our open-source framework for digital image processing.

vanderZwan 2 years ago | |

Thank you for G'MIC! The FFT in partiqular has been a life-saver on multiple occasions, letting me denoise specific patterns out various old images and photos.

imperialdrive 2 years ago | |

I just passed a lot of time going through all the examples/demos—render me impressed!

zubspace 2 years ago |

G'mic is a great tool. I use the QT-Plugin for Krita.

The only problem I have is that I don't use it very much and if I do, I'm just overwhelmed by all the effects and parameters. I'm sure there's great value there... But, if you don't know exactly what you're looking for? Well, be prepared to click around for ages finding something cool. I have no idea how to improve that, but I find it annoying.

It would be also great for the effects to not be destructive. Like using it with filter layers. But unfortunately this seems not to be possible.

probably_wrong 2 years ago |

I spent hours trying to get the content-aware-fill-equivalent to work in Gimp (which was unhappy with the Python2/3 issue) until I noticed that G'mic was already installed and worked just fine.

If you're a Gimp user you may already have this plugin.

nullc 2 years ago | |

Why not use the resynthesizer plugin? https://github.com/bootchk/resynthesizer

I haven't used it for a while because stable diffusion is much more powerful, but resynthesizer is pretty good for many kinds of uses.

probably_wrong 2 years ago | | |

I was a happy user of this plugin and would still recommend it, as it is indeed easier to use. The problem is that I ran into a bug [1] that would break the rest of my Gimp install. Note that the plan to resolve it is "convert the resynthesizer plugins from Python 2 to Python 3" but AFAIK this hasn't happened yet.

This bug occurs in one computer but not in the other. And once I discovered G'mic I honestly lost the drive to dig deeper into why this happens.

[1] https://github.com/bootchk/resynthesizer/issues/88

kkfx 2 years ago |

I like the already present "Repair Scanned Document", it's not always perfect but in many case cleanup automatically enough without spending a minute more.

andybak 2 years ago |

There was a time in my life where I would have lost many, many months to this app.