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!
shrx•Aug 1, 2026
Very happy that this framework is still in active development! It's invaluable for more advanced image manipulation in GIMP.
vintagedave•Aug 1, 2026
I love the SteamFace Machine UI -- you don't see interfaces made with that level of care and artistry often any more.
It looks a really nice library, somewhat surprised I haven't heard of it before, but glad it's getting upvotes on HN now!
I spent a short amount of time reading about the scripting language. It's a pipeline of commands and seems very powerful, but I haven't grokked how it works in terms of complex pipelines -- there's no visual editor. I was impressed seeing the graduated blur example,[*] simply because I see this done so badly often and yet right at the top of the page was a nice example.
Browse the audio plugin marketplace, where having unique UIs remains very much the norm and people put a lot of effort into rendering abstraction in a visually intuitive way.
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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!
It looks a really nice library, somewhat surprised I haven't heard of it before, but glad it's getting upvotes on HN now!
I spent a short amount of time reading about the scripting language. It's a pipeline of commands and seems very powerful, but I haven't grokked how it works in terms of complex pipelines -- there's no visual editor. I was impressed seeing the graduated blur example,[*] simply because I see this done so badly often and yet right at the top of the page was a nice example.
* https://gmic.eu/tutorial/graduated_blurs.html