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G'MIC, full-featured ImageMagick alternative

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Re: G'MIC, full-featured ImageMagick alternative

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Post by jawngee »

I recently using G'MIC to produce a video for a client. We used the G'MIC plugin in GIMP to build up the look, then used those parameters to drive it on the command line frame by frame. It's very slow, so we ended up having to build a solution with AWS to do massively parallel processing, but in the end it turned out great.

G'MIC is really good at that kind of thing. I wouldn't use it to replace ImageMagick though.

Re: G'MIC, full-featured ImageMagick alternative

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Post by wx196 »

mario14 wrote: post #13

It's a very popular plug-in for GIMP. I don't think this is an alternative to ImageMagick

I marked it as alternative only because it has full command line support, which is rare case for filters. But it is mainly strong filter library, than batch convertor/resizer, you are right.

Re: G'MIC, full-featured ImageMagick alternative

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Post by acqq »

sevensor wrote: post #5
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 )

Thanks. CImg seems to be whole in one 2 MB header file? Wow.

Re: G'MIC, full-featured ImageMagick alternative

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Post by wx196 »

dahart wrote: post #9

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…

Could you please mention good filters, both free and commercial, that you think "aesthetically pleasant to boot"?

Re: G'MIC, full-featured ImageMagick alternative

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Post by wx196 »

acqq wrote: post #15
sevensor wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 )

Thanks. CImg seems to be whole in one 2 MB header file? Wow.

Yes, and all 450+ filters compiled in one 5 MB file.

Re: G'MIC, full-featured ImageMagick alternative

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Post by bobajeff »

patdavid wrote: post #18

It should be noted that the project CIMG/GMIC is _not_ built and billed as an IM alternative. It's an image processing framework that happens to have similar utility to IM for some folks and that is also available as a plug-in to GIMP for visual+interactive use.

I'm my experience it has been the only plugin to help Gimp fill in the space of the advanced features Photoshop users enjoy such as Content Aware Fill.

Re: G'MIC, full-featured ImageMagick alternative

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Post by LeonidasXIV »

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?

GMIC is far more powerful with a lot of very sophisticated filters [1] and a completely different beast to ImageMagick to the point of this title being actively misleading. Yes, both can edit images. But so can Gimp or Darktable, but they are not trying to displace IM either.

[1]: http://opensource.graphics/christmas-is-already-here-for-ima...

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