If you’re using it from the GIMP plugin, @David_Tschumperle already includes a way to generate thumbnail previews of all of the emulations in a collection. Have you tried that?
It should work from the command line also. I’m traveling in Austin right now, or I’d check real quick for you.
Ah, I was running an old version (never noticed that my gimp settings were copied to .config/GIMP/2.9, so kept “updating” gmic in ~/.gimp-2.9), now I see a “collage” menu
But $ gmic --help|grep -e collage -e film gives no hits – how would I use that from the command line? I would like all the collages at once
I don’t think it will do all of them at once, but I’ll defer to @David_Tschumperle on that.
If you set the “Output Messages” to “Verbose (Layer Name)” the command used to generate that filter effect will be visible as the layer name in GIMP. For the B&W film emulation collages:
[G'MIC] B&W films - collage: -gimp_emulate_film_collage_bw 512,4,16,0