Ever heard of OpenSource.graphics?

So, David Tschumperlé (creator of G’MIC ) has a blog over at opensource.graphics. He hasn’t posted much, but just recently got around to finally updating the site with a nice overview of the last 10 months of working on G’MIC.

A quick list of the contents:

  1. The G’MIC Project : Context and Presentation
  2. New G’MIC features for color processing
  3. An algorithm for foreground/background extraction
  4. Some new artistic filters
  5. A quick view of the other improvements
  6. Perspectives and Conclusions

He does talk briefly about the film emulation presets, and a couple of other useful filters for photographers. Head over and check it out!

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Always been a fan of G’MIC. For an introduction to installing and using some filters see

http://blog.meetthegimp.org/episode-199-gmic/

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That reminds me, I need to find a way to get all of the Meet the GIMP episodes linked and summarized here somehow…

Links I can supply. Summaries are another matter…

I wonder, should we create a category just for Meet the GIMP episodes (almost 200 at the moment). I may also mirror them to youtube to alleviate any load on Rolfs server…

They are already on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MeetGIMP

I actually knew that, but I was more concerned that the account is not actually Rolfs, but someone else. In the future if they decide to start monetizing the videos, we’ll see ads. :frowning:

I guess for now I can just link to those, and be ready to upload/transfer them to my youtube account later as needed (On my honor I won’t try to monetize the Meet the GIMP videos).

Been using GMIC from way back when. Even communicated with David a bit a couple of years back about tiling to speed up processing of larger pictures. GMIC keeps getting better with every update and I’ve actually included some of it in my own bash scripts (yes, GMIC has a CLI version which works the full 16-bits!).

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I have almost replaced most CLI processing with G’MIC personally. (I still fall back to the occasional Imagemagick, if only for the easier syntax to remember how to do things).

I have used an awesomely fast script that @David_Tschumperle wrote for me ages ago to do my mean averaging of images:

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and

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also,

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Great stuff, and very fast (and I get real-time status feedback of the command working unlike Imagemagick…