I am a photographer who uses only open source applications for image editing. My go-to applications are Darktable and Gimp. I always am interested in an easier workflow so I am open to experiment with other applications and utilities as well. In that regard, I just discovered two python applications that use AI and run locally to remove backgrounds from my images. They are not perfect but they do a great job and allow me to speed up my workflow by just tweaking the output a bit if needed. I will share the links to these two applications. You will need to have python installed and will also need to install these in a python virtual environment on your system. I would be interested if there are any other really good applications that are obscure or not widely known. I would love to find an open source application similar to these that would fix out of focus images and reduce noise. If you know of any, please share.
Hey Tim, welcome to the forum! I think many of us are only using FOSS applications in our workflow, so you’ll fit right in here!
Today I’ll be presenting the gimp_upscale plugin that uses the AI capabilities of artificial intelligence to
Increase the scale of images when editing them in GIMP.
Plug-in source:
gimp_upscale GitHub - Nenotriple/gimp_upscale: (GIMP 2.10 plugin) Upscale a layer or selection using AI directly within GIMP
“gimp_upscale” is a plug-in to enable AI (artificial intelligence) super-resolution support in the
GIMP program.
The plug-in allows you to scale images edited in GIMP from 0.1 to 8 times using the
Real-ESRGAN .
The plug-in uses the power of artificial intelligence to scale beautifully (to high resolution)
image in the edited layer or in the selected area.
Download the plugin:
https://github.com/Nenotriple/gimp_upscale/releases/download/v1.03/gimp_upscale.zip version 1.03
of December 9, 2024
The features of each of the 6 models are roughly as follows:
- realesr-animevideov3-x4 - For anime films
- RealESRGAN_General_x4_v3 - General Purpose Model
- realesrgan-x4plus - general purpose model, strong effect (intensive processing)
- realesrgan-x4plus-anime - For anime images, strong effect (intensive processing)
- UltraSharp-4x - a model for real photography, emphasizing sharpness (intense
processing) - AnimeSharp-4x - a model for anime with an emphasis on sharpness (intensive processing)
Very interesting, thanks for info!
Did you use it? In case you have some images as example, I’ll be interested to see them. 
