Small update
Have been busy dealing with real life challenges. As usual, many of them are serious and draining, so progress in G’MIC development has been slow.
1 Scripts don’t age well as G’MIC evolves. E.g., fx_darken_sky, fx_gamify, fx_hnorm and afre_cleantext are old and, to begin with, were rushed to fulfill a need in the forum. I will have to update and make them robust later.
2 I am always in search of a minimalist way to generate an acceptable image from a near-raw image. I have been playing with adaptive gamma algorithms that could be used to brighten an image while maintaining natural contrast. Might lead to a command.
Need to compare it with my current brighten-contrast methods. In terms of speed, it is fast. Also, there is no need to compete with “filmic”: plenty of folks are doing that already and I have never been that interested in it. Here is an example of my current implementation in action:
The lightest part doesn’t have as much contrast as other people’s entries – I have to work on that –, but overall I am quite satisfied with this preliminary test.