Hello there,
I'm happy to announce the release of a new version (numbered
1.7.6) of the
G'MIC image processing framework, including of course its
plug-in for GIMP (compatible for
GIMP 2.8 and
2.9). As always, I encourage upgrading to this new version as soon as possible
![Big Thumb Up :bigthup](./images/smilies/023.gif)
. This version is backward-compatible with the previous one (
1.7.5), meaning that all new filters added in this version have been also
backported for users of the previous stable version.
What is G'MIC?G'MIC is a full-featured open-source framework for image processing. It provides several different user interfaces to convert/manipulate/filter/visualize generic image datasets, ranging from 1d scalar signals to 3d+t sequences of multi-spectral volumetric images, thus including 2d color images.
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G'MIC main project page :
http://gmic.eu*
G'MIC plug-in for GIMP :
http://gmic.eu/gimp.shtml*
G'MIC web service :
https://gmicol.greyc.fr/The following is the full
Changelog of the version
1.7.6, as compared to the previous stable version
1.7.5.
As you can see, this is mainly a point version with only a few improvements, mainly bug fixes and optimizations.
I hope you'll enjoy it !
New features:*
[core] Added support of
CMake to build the software (cli interface, gimp plug-in and C++ library). Thanks to
Andrea Ferrero (from
Photoflow).
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[core] The math parser now understands expression
I#ind, which is equivalent to
I(#ind) (access to vector-valued pixel of image ind at current processing position
(x,y,z,c)).
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[core/gimp] New command
-retinex and associated GIMP plug-in filter
Colors / Retinex apply the
Multiscale Color Retinex algorithm for improving color consistency in images.
![Image](http://i.imgur.com/1U1NYXh.png)
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[gimp] New filter
Degradations / Flip & rotate blocs allows quite flexible bloc-by-bloc processing of the image. Very cool for generating glitch art.
![Image](https://discuss.pixls.us/uploads/default/original/2X/2/2bfc61ffe1022131c878549bb31deba90b261c93.png)
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[gimp] New filter
Degradations / Warp by intensity locally warps an image by its local intensity value. Also cool for generating glitch art.
![Image](https://discuss.pixls.us/uploads/default/original/2X/9/9aeb48fe0464b06b558eadbdebb46f1db8053fcc.png)
These two last filters have been inspired by the
Polyglitch plug-in for
Paint.NET, as described here :
http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/t ... itch-v14b/
Improvements:*
[stdlib] Command
-blend_median has been recoded from scratch and is now more efficient (faster and less memory-consuming).
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[core] Several optimizations have been done in the
CImg Library (base library used for the image processing routines), proposed by
Ingo Weyrich and
Sébastien Fourey. A big thanks to them!
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[gimp] Improved preview rendering when icc profiles are used for color-management (much thanks to
Andrea Ferrero for his help!).
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[gimp] Filter
Degradations / Pixel sort has new options for parameter Sorting criterion.
![Image](https://discuss.pixls.us/uploads/default/original/2X/0/07ec024c96afad5fc43c125143b0e5521071af19.png)
Bug fixes:*
[gimp] Fixed bug in plug-in when working on a selection of a very small image (filter preview made the plug-in crash).
* + various small bug fixes and corrections, spotted by the community. Thanks folks !
I'd also like to thank the community here at
GimpChat, because you have been long time tester and bug reporters ! Without you, I'm sure many bugs couldn't have been fixed, so thanks again, fellow G'MIC enthusiasts !