How to get gmic command line from Gimp interface ?

gloq · **Joined:** Aug 22, 2014 **Posts:** 5

Hi !
I'm not very good at this command line stuff but i'd like to use it anyway with gimp's BIMP and gmic.
Now how to get the gmic command line with gmic plugin for gimp ?
I'm using gimp 2.8.10 (64bits) on Windows 7 (64bits), gmic version 1.6.0.0 (64bits)
I've tried the verbose (and the very verbose, and the debug) mode within the Gmic plugin, while running gimp from a "cmd" console with the parameter --verbose
And nothing works
Thank you for your attention !

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16029

gloq wrote:

Hi !
I'm not very good at this command line stuff but i'd like to use it anyway with gimp's BIMP and gmic.
Now how to get the gmic command line with gmic plugin for gimp ?
I'm using gimp 2.8.10 (64bits) on Windows 7 (64bits), gmic version 1.6.0.0 (64bits)
I've tried the verbose (and the very verbose, and the debug) mode within the Gmic plugin, while running gimp from a "cmd" console with the parameter --verbose
And nothing works
Thank you for your attention !

I believe you need the G'MIC stand alone program. You then use the command console with it.

gloq · **Joined:** Aug 22, 2014 **Posts:** 5

Errr yes... but... there is no user interface in the G'mic stand alone (or is there ?), and i prefer not have to learn the command line mode. My question is howto gmic gimp-->gmic command line, not the opposite

Thank you anyway

Odinbc · **Posted:** Fri Aug 22, 2014 9:04 am **(#4)**

A good place to start learning G'MIC command is with these G'MIC tutorials and G'MIC - tips and curiosities.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12775

The GIMP G'MIC inteface does allow for limited access to external commands (i.e., can run true 16-bit operations on external files) but does not provide a gui for that. Best just to use the stand-alone G'MIC if you need to process commands for higher bit images.

Ronounours · **Joined:** Jan 03, 2011 **Posts:** 1656

An easy way to get the command line involved for a particular filter is to select 'Output mode -> New layer'.
Then, look at the layer name, it contains the G'MIC command that has been called to achieve the effect. You can copy/paste this into a call to the G'MIC plug-in API (for a scheme script for instance), as it is done there :

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;;
;;   File        : gmic_in_script.scm
;;                 ( Scheme script for GIMP )
;;
;;   Description : Show how to call G'MIC commands from a GIMP script.
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(define   (script-with-gmic img drawable x y z)

  ;; Start undo group.
  (gimp-image-undo-group-start img)

  (let* (
         (copy-layer (car (gimp-layer-copy drawable TRUE)))
         )

    ;; Add a copy of the layer to the image.
    (gimp-image-add-layer img copy-layer -1)

    ;; Render a 3D mapped cube from the active layer, using G'MIC.
    (plug-in-gmic 1 img drawable 1
                  (string-append
                   "-v - " ; To have a silent output. Remove it to display errors from the G'MIC interpreter on stderr.
                   "-gimp_imageobject3d 1,{w},{h},0.5,"
                   (number->string x) ","
                   (number->string y) ","
                   (number->string z) ",45,0,0,-100,0.5,0.7,4"
                   ))

    ;; Merge two layers together, using the G'MIC 'edges' mode (this layer mode does not exist by default in GIMP).
    (plug-in-gmic 1 img drawable 2 "-v - -compose_edges 1")

    )

  ;; Flush display.
  (gimp-displays-flush)

  ;; End undo group.
  (gimp-image-undo-group-end img)
  )

(script-fu-register "script-with-gmic"
                    _"<Image>/Filters/G'MIC Script test..."
                    "Show how to call G'MIC from a GIMP script"
                    "David Tschumperlé"
                    "David Tschumperlé"
                    "October 2009"
                    "*"
                    SF-IMAGE      "Image"      0
                    SF-DRAWABLE         "Drawable"      0
                    SF-ADJUSTMENT   _"X-Angle"   '(57  0 360  1 2 0 0)
                    SF-ADJUSTMENT   _"Y-Angle"   '(41  0 360  1 2 0 0)
                    SF-ADJUSTMENT   _"Z-Angle"   '(21  0 360  1 2 0 0)
                    )

rich2005 · **Joined:** Mar 04, 2011 **Posts:** 2603

gloq wrote:

..I'm not very good at this command line stuff but i'd like to use it anyway with gimp's BIMP and gmic.
Now how to get the gmic command line with gmic plugin for gimp ?

Not all that sure of the benefits of running Gmic via BIMP

It does, (I am using BIMP 1.11 in a PClinuxOS 32 bit) pick up the Gmic Gimp plugin (1.6.0.0 linux 32) and a quick try with a simple command string (make an array) produces a result

Bimp looks like this

Result looks like this.

So it does work, but unless you are really duff (worse than not very good

) at command line operations, then the stand-alone Gmic will be easier.

gloq · **Joined:** Aug 22, 2014 **Posts:** 5

Thanks guys for you answers,
especially Ronounours who answered the question :hehe

Graechan · **Posted:** Sat Aug 23, 2014 3:07 am **(#9)**

The easiest way to get the command line is to use gmic and set output to new layer, when gmic finishes the name of the new layer is the command string

rich2005 · **Joined:** Mar 04, 2011 **Posts:** 2603

gloq wrote:

Thanks guys for you answers,
especially Ronounours who answered the question :hehe

Just for my info and going back to the first post

Quote:

..i'd like to use it anyway with gimp's BIMP and gmic...

Where exactly did you want BIMP to fit in?

gloq · **Joined:** Aug 22, 2014 **Posts:** 5

Well my english is a bit awkward so I may not be perfectly understandable (is this sentence is ?)
I want to apply gmic effects to videos, so i decompose my videos in jpg images, want to batch those jpg, and then re-encode them.
As bimp wants line command to use gmic effects, I wanted a simple way to have those line commands

rich2005 · **Joined:** Mar 04, 2011 **Posts:** 2603

Curses, I had an little example of this on GimpTalk and just deleted the video a day ago, It applied the Gimp cubism filter to all the frames, using BIMP.

So that is possible. BIMP is easy, but a bit slow for this.
A batch file with standalone G'mic is going to be much faster.

Hope your project goes well.

rich2005 · **Joined:** Mar 04, 2011 **Posts:** 2603

Just an update on speed, not as much difference as I thought there might be. A labour of love.
computer: oldish AMDx2 3 Ghz CPU 4 GB ram, PClinuuxOS 32 bit, g'mic-static 32 1.6.0.0

The video source is a BBC video, 720x406 25 fps clipped out 245 frames as jpg

BIMP using -gimp_ellipsionism 20,10,0,5,0.7,3,0.5,0
took 45 minutes to process the 245 frames.

Gmic-static in a bash file ( -ellipsionism 20,10,0,5,0.7,3,0.5,0) surprisingly took 40 minutes and produced large jpegs, I noticed the output quality was 100% so that is something to look out for.

A lot of computing for not an exciting 10 second clip.
http://youtu.be/79vJ3DCNF4A
must choose a better subject next time

gloq · **Joined:** Aug 22, 2014 **Posts:** 5

Well thank you guys, but i have the answer i needed, Ronounours gave it !
It's slow indeed but it seems to work well
If I have some interesting results, i'll send them

Bye bye