G'MIC, full-featured ImageMagick alternative

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Post by wx196 » Mon, Jan 25, 2016, 1:36 PM UTC

G'MIC, full-featured ImageMagick alternative
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Re: G'MIC, full-featured ImageMagick alternative

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Post by acqq » Mon, Jan 25, 2016, 2:46 PM UTC

As far as I understood, it calls GIMP to do the work?

Re: G'MIC, full-featured ImageMagick alternative

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Post by shoghicp » Mon, Jan 25, 2016, 3:01 PM UTC

acqq wrote: post #2

As far as I understood, it calls GIMP to do the work?

There is a plugin to add G'MIC support to GIMP.

  A plug-in gmic_gimp, to bring G'MIC capabilities to the image retouching software GIMP.

Re: G'MIC, full-featured ImageMagick alternative

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Post by jbverschoor » Mon, Jan 25, 2016, 3:09 PM UTC

Does it support vectors? And PDFs, AI, EPS? Does it handle CMYK/RGB properly?

Re: G'MIC, full-featured ImageMagick alternative

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Post by sevensor » Mon, Jan 25, 2016, 3:18 PM UTC

acqq wrote: post #2

As far as I understood, it calls GIMP to do the work?

It appears the GIMP dependency is just so you can build the GIMP plug-in. It appears to use (the same author's) cimg to do the heavy lifting. (https://github.com/dtschump/CImg)

Re: G'MIC, full-featured ImageMagick alternative

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Post by overcast » Mon, Jan 25, 2016, 3:31 PM UTC

The only thing I want to know is if it breaks every dependency, on every update, like ImageMagick does.

Re: G'MIC, full-featured ImageMagick alternative

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Post by mrSugar » Mon, Jan 25, 2016, 3:31 PM UTC

So, a question: why? Just so that there is an alternative (not that there is anything wrong with that), or is there an issue with ImageMagick that discourages some people from using it?

Re: G'MIC, full-featured ImageMagick alternative

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Post by sevensor » Mon, Jan 25, 2016, 3:37 PM UTC

jbverschoor wrote: post #4

Does it support vectors? And PDFs, AI, EPS? Does it handle CMYK/RGB properly?

Looks like a raster library to me. I imagine if it does handle vector graphics, it's only on the input side, same as ImageMagick. Didn't see any indication one way or another on color spaces.

Re: G'MIC, full-featured ImageMagick alternative

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Post by dahart » Mon, Jan 25, 2016, 3:40 PM UTC

I want to be nothing but encouraging, but I have simultaneous positive and negative reactions. On one hand, we need better FOSS alternatives to imagemagick, on the other hand, using imagemagick as the target to compare against means it's doomed to repeat some of IMs mistakes. And sure enough, using the online server's filter examples, so many of them seem to exist to fill a checkbox and increase the filter count, but are utility wise, useless as a serious filter, and aesthetically unpleasant to boot. I have the same contention with a significant portion imagemagick's feature set.

The IM/GM command line is also a disaster of weird names for things and inconsistent conventions and hundreds and hundreds of pages of manual. Reinvent IM's command line to be pleasant and simple and make sense, and it'll be a HUGE win!

What we really need is an open source alternative to is Nuke or Shake (RIP). Anyone want to help build that? ;)

I can't get to the project page, but I hope that GMIC borrows the positive developments from GraphicsMagick. One of the things GM improved over IM is large image handling. GM can stream a gigapixel image resize in minutes, while IM gets stuck in virtual memory swap for hours.

Re: G'MIC, full-featured ImageMagick alternative

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Post by Grue3 » Mon, Jan 25, 2016, 3:41 PM UTC

mrSugar wrote: post #7

So, a question: why? Just so that there is an alternative (not that there is anything wrong with that), or is there an issue with ImageMagick that discourages some people from using it?

It's also a GIMP plugin. ImageMagick is command-line only.