I want to be nothing but encouraging, but I have simultaneous positive and negative reactions. On one hand, we need better FOSS alternatives to imagemagick, on the other hand, using imagemagick as the target to compare against means it&#x27;s doomed to repeat some of IMs mistakes. And sure enough, using the online server&#x27;s filter examples, so many of them seem to exist to fill a checkbox and increase the filter count, but are utility wise, useless as a serious filter, and aesthetically unpleasant to boot. I have the same contention with a significant portion imagemagick&#x27;s feature set.<p>The IM&#x2F;GM command line is also a disaster of weird names for things and inconsistent conventions and hundreds and hundreds of pages of manual. Reinvent IM&#x27;s command line to be pleasant and simple and make sense, and it&#x27;ll be a HUGE win!<p>What we really need is an open source alternative to is Nuke or Shake (RIP). Anyone want to help build that? ;)<p>I can&#x27;t get to the project page, but I hope that GMIC borrows the positive developments from GraphicsMagick. One of the things GM improved over IM is large image handling. GM can stream a gigapixel image resize in minutes, while IM gets stuck in virtual memory swap for hours.