[HN Gopher] Imgator: Compress, convert, edit and resize your images
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       Imgator: Compress, convert, edit and resize your images
        
       Author : memorable
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2022-08-17 15:23 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (imagator.co)
 (TXT) w3m dump (imagator.co)
        
       | somishere wrote:
       | This is cool. I've been using tinypng.com (a service that uses
       | "their" servers!!) for years, even with PS, IM and the rest
       | installed locally .. basically due to - until very recently -
       | superior compression, especially of png. It's entirely useful.
       | Will take this newfangled local effort for a test run at my next
       | rodeo :)
        
       | bombcar wrote:
       | I wish there was something like this that would easily support
       | resizing an image to fit a fixed aspect ratio.
       | 
       | Eg, say "Make this image 640x480" and it would shrink it until it
       | fit inside that box, then add transparent/blank as necessary to
       | get to the size.
       | 
       | It is nearly impossible to explain to people why aspect ratio is
       | important, and the ovals continue.
        
       | hackish wrote:
       | Cool. I was looking at ffmpeg.wasm[1] the other day and it had me
       | wondering what the performance might look like for a similarly
       | browser-based and offline service for common tasks.
       | 
       | I wonder about the use of remote file operation terminology
       | (e.g., upload, download) versus local (e.g., open, save) when
       | using offline/local and privacy as an attraction.
       | 
       | [1] https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm
        
       | zyang wrote:
       | I'm not sure who this is build for. Wouldn't most OS have these
       | functions builtin? macOS and iOS do.
        
         | Tajnymag wrote:
         | Cool. On Windows, some Linux distros and Android, there isn't a
         | builtin way to directly compress an image though.
        
       | ProAm wrote:
       | Curious what this does different than ImageMagick. I can't view
       | the website as for the antivirus thinks its a high risk site.
        
       | mike_hock wrote:
       | Huh, I've been able to do that locally for 25 years.
        
         | grimgrin wrote:
         | Cool.
         | 
         | This is someone's project that works locally as well, on every
         | operating system, without installing anything except 1 web
         | browser.
         | 
         | If the author wanted, they could even ship it in a redbean ;)
         | 
         | https://redbean.dev
         | 
         | Here is a nice starting point, if they're reading this and
         | interested https://github.com/ProducerMatt/redbean-template
        
       | scrash wrote:
       | Squoosh with basic drawing and cropping tools, what exactly is
       | the use case for this?
        
       | lavventura wrote:
       | Why do we have to upload our images into their servers?
        
         | porphyra wrote:
         | It literally says
         | 
         | > No uploading. Files never leave your machine.
        
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