Happy New Year! This is my first time using G’MIC and posting here (feel free to change the title or add new tags). I would like to sharpen an image but take it a down a notch by blending the sharpened image with the original, with less emphasis on the highlights. E.g.:
One more question about blending. I was wondering if there is a simpler way to recompose the image after -fx_split_details_wavelets than blending two layers at a time. Blend [standard] (-fx_blend) looks like something that could do it, but I don’t know how to get it to work.
If you use the plug-in command -fx_split_details_wavelets, then you can recompose your images at once using -gui_merge_layers, like this :
$ gmic -sp lena -fx_split_details_wavelets 6,0,0 -do_what_you_want_here --gui_merge_layers
If you use directly the CLI command -split_details, then just add the image together to reconstruct the original image:
$ gmic -sp lena -split_details 6 -do_what_you_want_here --+
The difference between the two is that -fx_split_details_wavelets is focused on the use in a host software (e.g. GIMP), so it takes care on the value range of decomposed images (renormalized in [0,255] for instance), and also adds image names to allow correct blending modes applied on output layers.
The second one is more suited to be used in a CLI pipeline (and is a bit faster probably).