[HN Gopher] PhotoPea: Advanced Image Editor
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PhotoPea: Advanced Image Editor
Author : thunderbong
Score : 114 points
Date : 2024-02-18 12:34 UTC (10 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.photopea.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.photopea.com)
| RandomBacon wrote:
| Is it me, or do they flip the image upsidedown when you try to
| save it if you're running an ad-blocker?
| anotherhue wrote:
| You might have some canvas obfuscation privacy setting enabled.
| jonwachob91 wrote:
| I use photopea regularly with ghostery and uBlock origin
| (firefox), and have never had issues with images saving upside
| down.
| rco8786 wrote:
| This pops up here every so often. Photopea is one of my favorite
| pieces of software of all time. And the 1 guy who runs it does
| very well for himself.
| hu3 wrote:
| PhotoPea is amazing. Zero install edit/create photoshop
| compatible files.
|
| I'm just afraid to invest time in it only to have it pulled since
| it is not open source or owned by some big corp.
| kmoser wrote:
| You can export your files to PSD format (among others) any
| time. Even if it's pulled, you don't lose your work.
| hu3 wrote:
| It's more about learning to use the tool fluently.
| freedomben wrote:
| Same. PhotoPea going open source would be absolutely amazing.
| I'd love to see it released AGPL, but I'm guessing that isn't
| likely to happen.
| jckahn wrote:
| Yep. It's nearly a perfect product, but it's a complete
| nonstarter for me because it's not open source. I'll happily
| stick with GIMP because of that.
| indigodaddy wrote:
| My daughter might be wanting to create a website icon soon. Is
| that something she can do with this?
| earthwalker99 wrote:
| definitely
| indigodaddy wrote:
| Thanks, found a tutorial-- seems like wouldn't be too
| difficult..
|
| https://wifeymakesgifs.tumblr.com/post/621202472473657344/tu.
| ..
| operator-name wrote:
| The capitalisation has just made me realise that it's "Photo Pea"
| and not "Photo-pe-a".
| gavinray wrote:
| Is it "Photo Pea" though?
|
| I've always thought it was like "Utopia" but for photos.
| paulgb wrote:
| I always thought that too, and the official capitalization
| appears to be Potopea everywhere. But it has a performance
| test tool called PeaMark, which has me questioning my
| assumption.
| zavertnik wrote:
| I thought it was "Pea" in the sense that the site is a
| small .js codebase. Now I'm very curious of the lore...are
| all 3 of us wrong?
| mgomez wrote:
| Ivan answered this in one of his AMAs on Reddit[1] a
| couple of years ago. He used "Pea" because "Apple" was
| already taken.
|
| [1] https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/s2elpv/i_made_
| a_free_...
| jjbinx007 wrote:
| I'm surprised Adobe haven't tried to sue the creator of this yet.
| voakbasda wrote:
| On what grounds?
| jjbinx007 wrote:
| It's a near clone of Photoshop - the icons, the layout,
| everything. It's almost exactly the same as CS2 in places.
| Most other photo editors have similar functions but not the
| exact same interface.
|
| IANAL btw.
| voakbasda wrote:
| In general, "look and feel" cannot be protected, unless
| they copied the original assets verbatim:
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_and_feel
|
| But IANAL either.
| allenwhsu wrote:
| The creator Ivan is on HN as well, stating that he made almost $1
| million in a year with this site. Very inspiring. And of course
| PhotoPea itself is fantastic, essential for every digital
| designer.
| echelon wrote:
| If he adds support for AI quick sketching (using LCMs), he can
| leapfrog Photoshop. Other companies have raised $50M for this,
| but he can absolutely bootstrap it. Especially if webgpu
| enables it.
| Brajeshwar wrote:
| I think https://www.photoroom.com should be closer to what
| you are looking.
| gaws wrote:
| > he made almost $1 million in a year with this site
|
| How?
| gkbrk wrote:
| It's a free alternative to a relatively expensive and clunky-
| to-install tool. It's popular, the first result when
| searching "online photoshop". And it has ads.
|
| With a non-technical demographic, ad-blocker percentage is
| lower and you can make a lot of revenue.
| freedomben wrote:
| It also has a Premium plan that has cloud storage and more
| features, including AI features.
| jwells89 wrote:
| It's cool as is, but I think it's one case of a web app that'd
| genuinely benefit from having an Electron app that can do things
| like use the global menubar on macOS and have more robust
| filesystem access.
| ilkke wrote:
| I don't have proof but I strongly suspect that it being a web
| app is a loophole preventing Adobe from taking legal action.
|
| There were some electron forks floating on GitHub but they got
| taken down.
| lazydogg wrote:
| Cool
| souvlakee wrote:
| I'm not sure when he developed it, but it seems like I've been
| using it for the past decade for tasks where default editors like
| Paint suck, yet Photoshop seems too expensive.
| moondev wrote:
| Is there a "photopea for video" anyone can recommend?
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