http://gimp.1065349.n5.nabble.com/Smart ... 36029.html

How would you evaluate this relatively new (3 month) software. I d/l'ed it for testing and compared with GIMP refocus and refocus-it plugins.
Want to know our GC experts opinion.
Suggested by its author image could be a test model

Thanks for considerations.

After the patch, in many ways, I do like it better then 2.6x K1T. For starters, a viable native 64-bit GIMP is a huge paradigm for me. Also, thanks to the many coder gurus, all the plugins that I cherish have been ported to 64-bit GIMP or the 32-bit version still works. It also launches faster and is, by far, more stable then 2.6 ever was since I installed Win7 64-bit (2.6 was OK for XP, but had continued lockup issues with 2.6 in Win7 64-bit and, though 2.8 had crashed less then a handful of times, that's a blessing compared to sometimes multiple times daily with 2.6x). I can go on, but I will again say, if you haven't 2.8'ed yet, the you are denying yourself the better version of GIMP.

edit:

Sorry; misread you request. I've used refocus and refocus-it in the past but have not copied these plugins to 2.8 yet since I use other methods such as wavelet sharpening now. Don't have the nohow to compile this one to Windows GIMP either unfortunately.

That is totally awesome. I can't wait until it's implemented in Gimp.

Who would ever think you could clear a blurred photo?

I believe this is the Windows version.
https://github.com/Y-Vladimir/SmartDeblur/downloads

the reply from gimp developers was clear:
they are not interested to include in gimp new plug-ins but they consider only Gegl op :

"only GEGL op", actually, means a lot, because GEGL non destructive image editing is now becoming a rendering standard in GIMP.
My impression was that mitch would like to see it re-coded and fully ported to use GEGL buffers as backend processing (as opposed to the plug-in version). 3rd party plugins that are still using ONLY gimp tile caches are generally slower and soon will become a history. Moreover, they are not always maintained continuously by their authors.
SmartDeblur has a chance to be 'out of the box' feature for the future releases (like in 2.9 version - gaussian blur, bilateral-filter, linear blur, unsharp mask, pixelize, etc. are already GEGL-based procedures).
'A GEGL op is also much more useful generally' - mitch wrote.
As GEGL.org states: "GEGL provides infrastructure to do demand based cached non destructive image editing on larger than RAM buffers. Through babl it provides support for a wide range of color models and pixel storage formats for input and output."
SmartDeblur currently supports only jpeg and tiff. GEGL operates on images with up to 32-bit floating point per channel - PNG, JPEG, RAW, ffmpeg. New level color correction and dynamic range tone mapping among other benefits of being GEGL op.
And finally, as was mentioned in discussions, none of the other image editors has a similar feature.


GEGL op or not it's not why I posted the link here. I was hoping for a sort of software analysis from you guys. I your opinion, is it as good as they say it is?

From my perspective it's impressive as a demonstration and would no-doubt be useful in a forensic type of situation.

But in my personal use-case it doesn't seem to offer me anything useful. (I'd delete any of my photos that were that badly blurred )

The artefacts it generates are far too intrusive. That said, I'll try it on less extreme cases of blur and try to figure out if the preview is representative of the saved file. (The preview being scaled means it's potentially getting less or more sharpening)

Kevin