G'MIC 4.0: Squaring the Pixel, Easier Than Ever!

dtschump · **Joined:** Feb 12, 2021 **Posts:** 38

Our yearly G'MIC recap is out!

=> https://gmic.eu/gmic40/

Beyond the 4.0 release announcement, this article dives into a year of work behind the scenes:

- New filters in G'MIC-Qt (Pixel Stretch, Marker Drawing, Heightfield Warp...)
- The variational color transfer algorithm, with its guided mode
- New core commands, creative coding scripts, the gmic-interactive-demos repo, and more

Don't miss it! :jumpclap

Wallace · **Posted:** Wed Jul 29, 2026 10:25 am **(#2)**

dtschump wrote:

Our yearly G'MIC recap is out!

=> https://gmic.eu/gmic40/

Beyond the 4.0 release announcement, this article dives into a year of work behind the scenes:

- New filters in G'MIC-Qt (Pixel Stretch, Marker Drawing, Heightfield Warp...)
- The variational color transfer algorithm, with its guided mode
- New core commands, creative coding scripts, the gmic-interactive-demos repo, and more

Don't miss it! :jumpclap

Nice!
There's lots packed into this update,
well worth checking out.
Thanks dtschump!

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12822

Definitely some great stuff with 4.0x, David. Particularly like the new Marker Drawing preset. Hard to believe it's been 18 years now. Before G'MC, I've been using the GREYCstoration preset for fake smudge work as I recall and someone even added GPU acceleration to create a PS plugin that using GREYC. Still hoping one day GPU could be added to G'MIC, but I understand it's a matter of resource allocations.

trandoductin · **Posted:** Wed Jul 29, 2026 1:13 pm **(#4)**

Congratulations!

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16145

Congrats! G'MIC has come a very long way over the years.

Tas_mania · **Joined:** Nov 04, 2015 **Posts:** 1461

Thanks dtschump. I wanted to try pixel stretch for starters

sallyanne · **Posted:** Sun Aug 02, 2026 4:02 am **(#7)**

Congratulations :hi5

Thanks for all the hard work you put into this for us