Just discovered the tool after some disappointment in overly lispy GiMP command line interface a few days ago. However, I realized that I mostly taking photos from my phone and sending them also from my phone and the workflow for that is really off-putting. While using desktop is convenient for serious work, sometimes you get stuck somewhere on the road with nothing but your phone, so basic things like cropping and working with square sprites (paste, cut, resize) would be nice.
There are two way that would probably work for me.
Android port of G’MIC. Not sure about amount of work required to make it run there, but even more questions are about the interface, although G’MIC online version can be a good start.
Remote desktop/server processing. For desktop I need a cable or dropbox, or syncthing to get the photo from mobile to the desktop. Then I process it, I need to save, then again copy it back to mobile. Most of the time I just email it myself. Very ineffective. Perhaps the minimal Android port could be just a filter selection interface with preview, that offloads the job to online version. Maybe this API can help http://www.grpc.io/ to make this universal interface.
If you setup syncthing on your phone and desktop, you could write an inotify-watch script that watches for a jpeg, then invokes a gmic script. Syncthing would handle the file transfer.
We have already tried (two times) to develop a Android port of G’MIC, with a GUI similar to what G’MIConline proposes, but with the calculations done directly on the tablet. We got some working prototypes, but nothing that can be used as a solid basis for further developments (this has been made by students of the engineering school here as student projects).
I’d personally love to see an official G’MIC port for Android, but I don’t have much time to try by myself, unfortunately.
Nice. So, I got shared gmicin/ folder, then save picture there from mobile. Desktop sees the file, but does nothing until I invoke g’mic script editor on mobile, which detects new file, and creates new script to process this file, I edit the script (some drag and drop ops, probably - scratchy/blockly), save it, and once desktop sees the script named after the picture, it processes it and places output into gmicout/ If I am notsatisfied with theresult, I edit script again, and output is regenerated. So Desktop should also save checksum of script to detect that target should be regenerated.
Perhaps slightly off topic, but is there any open source post processing software for Android? I know of Open Camera, but that’s a camera app with no filters or editing available. Other than the couple of online tools (g’mic and the film emulator) that are fully platform independent, what else can one do on Android? I always just use Snapseed, which is gratis but not libre.
I’m using cyanogen mod and their gallery app has a basic editor built into it. It has some filters (punch, vintage, etc) and basic, slider based controls for exposure, contrast, vibrance, etc.
Interesting! I have a version of CM on my old Kindle fire (1st gen), but I haven’t updated it or even really used it in over a year or more. Plus, that old KF has no camera, so I never explored photo apps on it. Currently have a nexus 5x as well, but don’t particularly feel like rooting and flashing a custom ROM on it, since stock marshmallow does pretty much everything I want. That cm gallery app looks ok, but really can’t even compete with Google photos, let alone Snapseed. Would love to see something FOSS that could give either of those two a real run for their money… I guess really it’s designing the ui that would be the biggest hurdle. I wonder if there’s anything from the Ubuntu touch project that could make porting over to a touch interface easier?
The Cyanogen Mod Gallery app, I am pretty sure, is proper Free Software. I think the UI is quite usable, though I’ve never used Snapseed or Google Photos.
