223 pointsby axelMIa day ago26 comments
  • rorylaitila18 hours ago
    I've been looking for an open source image editor that I can embed in my app for managing my vintage ad archives (https://adretro.com). Basically I just need to rotate, crop, adjust color. But the images come from from the archive database rather than upload. And I want to work with them quickly, rather than save/open like a desktop app. Last time I looked I couldn't find something with good documentation that was easy to get started with. Right now I bulk edit in Google Photos.
  • munksbeer2 hours ago
    This looks great, well done. However, I find one of the main tools I'm always looking for is the ability to resize an image. I want to retain the exact dimensions, just shrink the number of pixels. I can't spot that, is it there? Or would you consider adding it?
  • virtualritz7 hours ago
    Does this do operations involving multiplications in linear color space?

    It seems to use mini-gl[0] for the filtering. I had a brief look at the mini-gl source and it seems to use color as-is?

    If that were true, for 99% of content that people would upload -- stuff in non-linear sRGB --, the filters would do the wrong thing.

    Or am I missing something?

    [0] https://github.com/xdadda/mini-gl

    • axelMI6 hours ago
      You are right thanks for the heads up!! It currently works in linear color space. I wasn't familiar with the issue.

      I need to figure out if it's enough in Webgl to add gl.SRGB8_ALPHA8 when loading/ copying textures or I should gamma correct in all the color handling shaders. Will do some testing to figure it out.

      • virtualritz5 hours ago
        AFAIK gl.SRGB8_ALPHA8 will only make sure the filtering of the lookup happens in linear sRGB (because filtering involves multiplications).

        But values returned from the texture lookup must also be linear for any calculations afterwards to make sense.

        AFAIK you'd need to set internal format to SRGB8_ALPHA8 and the format to RGBA. Then the returned color is also linear.

        However, according to [1], this combination is only allowed if the result type is requested UNSIGNED_BYTE, i.e. as 8bit/channel. That would mean you will get banding on gradients because 8bit/channel is not nearly enough to represent linear color.

        I.e. the type should be at least HALF_FLOAT or FLOAT but the table suggest WebGL 2.0 does not support this. I'm not a realtime graphics person, so I may be missing something. And obviously, there must be some workaround for WebGL.

        Furthermore, the final linear->non linear sRGB conversion must be done, too. I.e. before displaying the result. AFAIK the sRGB framebuffer GL extension can take care of this. But again, not sure.

        The whole topic of color spaces (vs color models, i.e. RGB is a color model, not a color space) and gamma is not trivial.

        Almost everyone starting out with any kind of computer graphics involving display/manipulation of colors gets this wrong first time because they do not know about this/assume this is trivial.

        Don't be discouraged. A good read is [2]. While it specifically addresses color pipelines in VFX/film, all in there applies equally to a simple non-linear sRGB image (a typical JPG, e.g.) being manipulated and then displayed or saved out as 8bit/channel again.

        [1] https://registry.khronos.org/webgl/specs/latest/2.0/#TEXTURE...

        [2] https://www.imageworks.com/sites/default/files/2023-10/Cinem...

        • axelMI3 hours ago
          a whole new rabbit hole to get sucked into !! ahahah
  • abirch3 hours ago
    This is awesome!!! One small UX ask would be to manually edit the values instead of using the sliders. Since this is Open Source (thank you) I may try to tweak that this weekend.
  • shunia_huang13 hours ago
    Would be very nice if it is provided as a library to be able to integrated into another app with partial/full customizations for UI with different theme and stack.
  • gtb_1a day ago
    Did you consider using WebGPU, or creating a bridge between WebGPU / WebGL for this? Also, have you considered deploying on Cloudflare Pages [1] (unlimited bandwidth) instead of netlify?

    [1] - https://pages.cloudflare.com/

    • axelMIa day ago
      I did consider WebGPU but I couldn't find many advantages for the current use case.

      Yes I'm planning to move to the edge as soon as it's in a later stage of development

      • zorgmonkey12 hours ago
        The biggest difference for you is probably that WebGPU has compute shaders and WebGL does not, they are pretty nice if you want to implement more complex algorithms.
        • axelMI6 hours ago
          That's true. But current shaders are very simple. The big issue I have with WebGPU is that it's still not supported by all browser (see Safari) while WebGL is nowadays everywhere.

          I work on a MacBook and I need to make sure that at least Safari (soooo many issues/ bugs/ specific behaviours it drives my crazy) works fine

    • titaphraza day ago
      Apparently it isn't unlimited: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42713451
      • sam1r13 hours ago
        oh wow, i had no idea. thanks!
  • ww52018 hours ago
    Excellent work. The UI looks very clean and functional. It's feature packed. Good choice on using WebGL. It has support everywhere in most if not all browsers.
  • esperent15 hours ago
    Nice work.

    Couple of issues I had: on mobile (Brave on Android) the touch controls for cropping are very janky. Feels like it steals control each time the picture updates maybe?

    It's hard to see the controls under the picture on this small screen. Could you add a control to adjust the size of the controls and shrink the picture maybe?

    • axelMI7 hours ago
      Sorry, this at the moment is desktop only. Maybe in the future I'll work on a separate PWA, but UI would need a complete re-design
    • GlassOwAter14 hours ago
      I’m getting some touch control issues and inability to download the image on iOS.
  • popalchemist16 hours ago
    Hey, awesome work! This is sorely needed in the OSS package space.

    Are you taking into account separation of concerns? I could see myself adopting this if the UI were customizable in Vue, React, etc.

    • axelMI7 hours ago
      The actual webgl engine is packaged as a separate library https://github.com/xdadda/mini-gl

      As for the more complex UI modules (ie crop) in theory it shouldn't be too difficult to build a vanilla-js separate module, but not sure I'll have the time as these kind of solutions need to take into account so many use-cases and edge-cases that they easily become a nightmare to maintain ...

  • amadeuspagela day ago
    Nice. I tried it with an image from Unsplash. Maybe you can use the Unsplash API[1] to give people an example to play with.

    [1]: https://unsplash.com/developers

    • axelMI20 hours ago
      Will have a look at this thanks! in the meantime I've added a quick sample gallery to test the editor out
  • rebelnz17 hours ago
    Really nice work. I had been using Photopea for cropping and quick edits when preparing references for painting but this is super clean and simple.
  • flashblaze21 hours ago
    I'm so glad this exsist. I've been meaning to get something similar started, but did not due to one reason or the other. I'll definitely try to contribute.
    • axelMI20 hours ago
      Whenever you feel like, ping me on github
  • woranl14 hours ago
    It would be nice if I can feed an image blob to it, and return the edited image as a blob programmatically - i.e. without the need for an UI to open or download the image. That will help integration/embed it into other apps.
    • axelMI7 hours ago
      maybe using the underlying webgl library could help your usecase? https://github.com/xdadda/mini-gl

      The constructor requires - a canvas (which can be an OffscreenCanvas) - an arrayBuffer with the image (which you easily get from a blob with "await blob.arrayBuffer();" )

  • PaulDavisThe1st16 hours ago
    Extremely nice work.

    I'd like it if there were separate buttons for (a) reset a section (e.g. colors) back to the default and (b) do not use a section (e.g. colors). Right now, turning (e.g.) colors off loses the settings there. Maybe I missed something though.

    • axelMI3 hours ago
      thanks Just to better understand your request.

      a) the Ø at the right of a section resets the section's settings back to default zeros (it becomes white when available) b) closing a section doesn't lose it's settings, unless of course it has been reset

      As for a button that allows to "temporarily" disable a section (but keeping it's modified settings underneath), yes it's a very good idea

      • PaulDavisThe1stan hour ago
        Yes, that was my suggestion, correctly understood.
    • sgc15 hours ago
      I too agree this is great, and see space for another low-hanging UI tweak:

      Allow editing numbers to right directly, instead of only using the slider. I really dislike using sliders beyond a first general impression because it is too slow to get things exactly as I want them. I would guess this is a relatively common sentiment.

      One feature I don't see but would love to see is text overlay, but that is perhaps moving away from the spirit of the project.

      • axelMI7 hours ago
        Editing number yes, will do next as I agree it's high priority from a usability pov.
      • PaulDavisThe1st15 hours ago
        I don't do web based development (all native desktop), but I'd be quite surprised if this was "low hanging".

        We have widgets that do this in Ardour and they were far from simple to implement.

        • axelMI6 hours ago
          Actually it's very easy to implement in a webapp. I will just need to think if there's a sleeker way to do it in terms of UI than just adding a simple input box ... although generally simpler is better so
        • sgc14 hours ago
          I have done similar. It is pretty easy, you just have the slider update the input, that is used for the actual calculations. If I ever get past looking and actually download, I will do it.
      • axelMI3 hours ago
        numbers input added
        • sgc2 hours ago
          Thank you!
  • Dwedit16 hours ago
    Is there any interference from "anti-fingerprinting" which corrupts the image canvas?
    • axelMI6 hours ago
      ehm, what? I'm not familiar with this issue
  • kreelman16 hours ago
    This does useful things easily. How hard would it be to use it as a batch process?
    • axelMI6 hours ago
      Batch processing would ideally require a backend.

      Batch processing in the browser would be limited by memory space and therefore everything would have to be queued (even if on more webworkers) and very slow/ unreliable IMHO.

      What I'll implement next, if there's a request, is the possibility to save the recipes of the adjustments (crop/ perspective excluded) in order to quickly apply them to subsequent images

  • GlassOwAter14 hours ago
    I like this. It reminds me of Snapseed. Feature request if it isn’t too hard, the ability to overlay an image and blend them together.
    • axelMI6 hours ago
      Easy, will add to the TODOs
  • asadma day ago
    in the editor, do add a way to load sample random image to try out the editor instead of having to uploading my own (which most won't bother / don't trust / can't do at work).
    • axelMIa day ago
      Great advise. Will add it next.

      Bust just to be clear, images are handled 100% locally on the user machine. No data is sent to servers, no adv, no cookies, nothing ...

      • sam1r13 hours ago
        wow, awesome turnaround dev time, i see the feature req has shipped already. \^-^/
      • asadma day ago
        Yup I get that.
    • axelMI20 hours ago
      sample images added. thanks for the tip
  • fidotrona day ago
    This is neat. Any plans to add blurs and related effects?
    • axelMI20 hours ago
      yes, I don't use them but if required it will be easy to add
  • atonsea day ago
    Very cool! What's the license, and how does it compare to some of the other croppers/editors out there? Was it mainly the GL integration?
    • axelMIa day ago
      Ops forgot to add MIT license As for the underlying modules on which it relies Will fix it shortly
  • cmenge21 hours ago
    Lol, I added a todo yesterday: "find or build good image cropper, ideally gl based" ;)

    Guess the search might be over, thanks!

    • axelMI20 hours ago
      let me know of any usability issue. I tried different combinations and this seemed intuitive for me (compared to other solution), but of course I'm too biased.
  • rendaw21 hours ago
    What does comparable refer to here? Web based image editors? Like what?
  • neosat21 hours ago
    Nice! Good performance, clean UI, and core functionality.
    • axelMI20 hours ago
      thanks. It started as a proof of concept for a custom reactivity engine (based on signals and tagged template literals). But while at it I realised I needed something quick and easy for my needs.

      I already have a prototype for a self-hosted photogallery that integrates this editor (something like https://immich.app to give you an idea). But it's still too early to share

  • stareda day ago
    Thank you for sharing!

    What's the license?

    • axelMIa day ago
      MIT. thanks for point that out, I did forget to add it
  • quantadeva day ago
    I tried to figure out how to crop an image and found nothing. There doesn't seem to be a crop feature as far as I could tell. I'm sure it's probably there, but not easy for anyone to figure out. Would be super easy to make it intuitive right?
    • axelMIa day ago
      it's the composition menu ... will rename it

      just select the area you wish to crop and then move to the other settings (colors, ...) to edit it

      • atonse21 hours ago
        I did this but when I hit download, I got back the original image instead of the cropped image.
      • quantadev21 hours ago
        I tried it again, and finally noticed you have to click the corner of the image to move the selection area. It works, but then I didn't see a "Crop" button. Only trying to be helpful, and not complaining. Nice work tho on this component.
        • axelMI20 hours ago
          No no I absolutely need this kind of feedback thanks! Being a solo developer is very difficult to gage usability and UX is definitely not my strength.

          I tried to integrate the crop/ composition in the natural workflow of image processing, without a discreet "crop" button. But I guess it's not necessarily the most intuite thing to do :)

          • quantadev14 hours ago
            I'm the new member of your QA team now! haha. I'll try to crop again when you're ready. :)
  • maxcomperatore20 hours ago
    good AF