Hi, I am a long time user of Gimp and G’mic as some of you might know since the Google Plus days! This is my first post on Pixls.us I have extensively used Gimp and G’mic in all my work. Finally it’s time to give back in code…I have redesigned the Dream Smoothing filter.
I have appropriately named it Dream Smoothing Enhanced, available from today in the Artistic menu just below the original Dream Smoothing.
Now I do not have a bone of coding in me. So needed to get some help. This post on this forum triggered me to contact David. Coded entirely with Claude Sonnet 4 & 4.5. Took me around 3 weeks of research on Claude, Mistral, Qwen & Gemini. It had to go through around 45+ iterations, over various cups of tea, with small tweaks before I was satisfied. It’s in the G’mic github repo, and also available with some instructions for newbies who are exploring this filter on GitHub - zarirmadon/gmic-dream-smoothing-enhanced: Dream Smoothing Enhanced filter for G'mic
Interesting effect. With a bit of coaxing, can even get an Orton effect out of this, maybe. Big fan of G’MIC myself, but I’m an end user, but an enthusiastic one. Hope David either creates a test folder for you or releases your preset under artistic.
Hey Lyle. It’s already been released under Artistic. I find the extra exposed parameters from the original filter gives a lot of control over the results.
Very nice filter, used it a couple of times - very good results, took about 50% longer to render an image than the original filter* (no problem… just over 5 secs)… but I like how this one pretty much keeps the original colours of the input intact.
