Install G’MIC Plugin for GIMP image editor on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and Linux Mint. G’MIC (GREYC’s Magic for Image Computing) is a GIMP Plugin and a standalone image editing software.
G’MIC is an editing tool for Linux Ubuntu Systems. G’Mic comes with a command-line tool and a plugin for GIMP. G’MIC 1.6.5.2 is the latest version available of the G’Mic.
Here are the details of the new features added to this G’MIC release:
- [all] New command -input_glob insert multiple images whose filenames match the specified glob pattern (such as *.jpg). Very convenient for users of the standard Windows console. This command has also an equivalent shortcut -ig.
- [all] New native command -_status (eq. to -_u) is used to escape any backslash in a status string so that strings containing escape sequences can be easily manipulated.
- [all] New functions argmin(), argmax(), dowhile(), for() and print() available in the math parser. A math expression can now define its own loops, which opens a lot of perspectives to define new custom algorithms that work at a pixel level.
- [all] New command -fibonacci which returns the Nth value of the Fibonacci sequence.
- [gimp] New filter Artistic / Vector painting which creates vectorized abstraction of images.
- [all] Folder used to store G’MIC resources and configuration files is not located in $XDG_CONFG_HOME/ (freedesktop standard) when possible.
- [all] Various optimizations have been done after code profiling. In particular, command -window has been optimized a lot. Parsing function for image selections is also faster for the most common cases.
- [gimp] Make the interface more responsive when computing filter preview. Parameters of the filters can now be changed even if the preview has not completed.
Install G’MIC 1.6.5.2 on Ubuntu
G’MIC 1.6.5.2, the latest G’MIC software can be installed on Ubuntu Systems via PPA. Open Terminal and run the following commands to install G’MIC on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Linux Mint and Derivatives:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install gimp-gmic
Once installed, you can open the G’MIC Plugin for GIMP image editor on Ubuntu Systems.
To open GMIC:
- Open GIMP from Ubuntu Dash
- Open a photo in GIMP
- Go to Filters > G’MIC
You can see G’MIC dialog on the screen. Once the plugin is open, you can select the effect(s) you want to apply for an image.
If you aren’t happy, you can uninstall and remove G’MIC by running the command given below:
$ sudo apt-get remove gimp-gmic