This thread is meant to collect and share any mentions of G’MIC you may come across in online or printed media — such as articles, blog posts, reviews, interviews, videos, or other publications.
Ideally, these are references made by people outside the G’MIC community (to get a sense of how the project is perceived externally), but feel free to share any relevant mention you find, even from within the community.
The goal is to keep track of how and where G’MIC is being talked about, so that we can:
Discover new articles and resources about the project.
See how G’MIC is represented in the wider world.
Share visibility and help spread the word.
If you spot a reference to G’MIC somewhere, feel free to post the link (or a short description if it’s in print), or a photograph where it appears.
French magazine Compétence Photo, No. 108 (Sept/Oct. 2025) apparently contains a short article about the G’MIC plug-in in its section “Practical • The best free plug-ins for Photoshop.”
Free plug-ins in Photoshop, the archetype of commercial and proprietary software? What a strange idea! And yet… the real oddity would be to deprive oneself of potentially powerful tools that simply don’t benefit from the marketing firepower of major publishers.
This means diving into the web in search of hidden gems that may have escaped notoriety. This feature is the result of such a quest — fruitful, despite a few disappointments. We only managed to find one plug-in developed in a community-driven way. But after all, why would open-source enthusiasts spend their time working, even indirectly, for Adobe?
What’s more, many of the selected tools turn out to be free but limited versions of paid plug-ins — in other words, teaser products designed to lure you into consumption. Please note that we decline all responsibility if you cannot resist the temptation!
That said, you’ll find that all the plug-ins featured here are worth testing, in order to assess their usefulness for your photography practice and your use of Photoshop.
Contents:
1 • Where and how to find free plug-ins
2 • Test and adopt utility plug-ins
3 • Plug-ins for tone and color editing
4 • Free plug-ins for portrait retouching
5 • Do everything (or almost everything) with the G’MIC plug-in
A special 18-page feature by Patrick Moll
I haven’t read it, but I’ll try to get hold of a copy!
From the G’MIC-Qt version number in that screenshot (3.5.3), they are using the version from GitHub.
The Adobe Exchange version is stuck at 3.3.6 due to Adobe changing their distribution requirements in ways that would require me to make a ton of changes to the listing just to upload a new version.
Given that their upload process is already buggy, it just isn’t worth the effort to maintain the exchange version.
I understand @PDN_GMIC .
It’s already awesome you ported G’MIC-Qt for the 8bf API, I guess being not able to post it on a proprietary bloated platform is really not a big deal
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