I love a comment in the Reddit post where a user asks if he takes feature requests and proposes one (triple click on text to select it). The guy, shortly after, answers saying that it's a good idea, and that he just implemented it.<p>I don't love it because of the attitude of the developer (which is great too), I love that it reminds me how fast it is to solo develop something and how much more complicated it gets when a team grows.<p>(We are a small team of 15 devs in my company and it's already super complicated to be that efficient)
Unfortunately it is not an alternative to Photoshop. It's more of an alternative to Paint.net. Photoshop is vast, it's absolutely huge. It has all kinds of features that will take decades to implement for one talented person. Additionally, it relies on GPU acceleration for many common tasks.<p>If you want to target Photoshop userbase, you absolutely must implement 16-bit editing and the ability to open RAW camera files. This project can't do either, while GIMP does.<p>It's still impressive what he did.
Hi guys, I am Ivan (author of Photopea) and I would like to thank you all.<p>I used to post here about Photopea in the past without much success. Now, I see a others posting it, and it makes me happy :) Thanks for all your support!
As for a fully open-source Photoshop alternative, Krita [1] goes a long way. It does however have some major UX problems in minor areas. For example, yesterday I tried updating the font size of an existing text layer, and just couldn't get a proper selection on the text.<p>They had a funding crisis last year [2], but currently seem to be doing well with two paid developers. They could really use your (one-time) donation however [3].<p>[1] <a href="https://krita.org/en/" rel="nofollow">https://krita.org/en/</a><p>[2] <a href="https://krita.org/en/item/krita-foundation-in-trouble/" rel="nofollow">https://krita.org/en/item/krita-foundation-in-trouble/</a><p>[3] <a href="https://krita.org/en/support-us/donations/" rel="nofollow">https://krita.org/en/support-us/donations/</a>
Hey Ivan, usually what happens to this kind of a project is corporation knocks to your door and offers a pile of cash you can't reject. Since your project isn't libre open source, it would be nice if you can consider this option. Photopea is great! And it covers all my needs. I would like to teach my son using your product. But I want to be sure that one day I won't see Adobe logo at the top.<p>Open source under licenses like AGPLv3 will prevent other companies/developers using it for generating the revenue without full source code disclosure (and you'll be able to sell exceptions).<p>Unfortunately, nowadays the threat of acquiring and killing the product is more realistic than ever.
Disclaimer: OP changed post title from "I made x y z" to "Redditor made x y z" so my question seems to have been rendered (get it?) invalid.<p>This is really impressive. I will be using this in the future - great work.<p>Are you at all worried about Photoshop coming after you for this? I know nothing about what patents they have etc., but it _is_ very similar to PS in design and functionality.
> www.Photopea.com , which is an advanced image editor, that works in a web browser<p>Free to use, not free software. I cannot imagine doing anything remotely Photoshop-related in a <i>web browser</i>...<p>> There was about 1.5 millions of visitors in October<p>Visitors do not equal users. If those were even 1% of that it would be impressive.
Maybe this Reddit AMA helped it's SEO rank, as it's now first for “Photoshop in the browser”, but I've been searching for something like this for years and even entertained the idea of building one myself someday, but Google would only find old, Flash based stuff.<p>Really nice work, I'll check it out more thoroughly when I have the time.
I started using Photopea just for fun several months ago, because it seemed like a really cool project even if it just seemed like a bit of a novelty at the time.<p>The fact that the author now has 1.5M + users and just got a reddit hug of death is super impressive. Well done to Ivan.
Fantastic product! Loved it!
This might not be the next big breakthrough in the design domain. But definitely a pain-point solver for budding designers who might not be able to bear cost of buying software licenses for their hobbies or learning.<p>We run a design service (<a href="http://draftss.com" rel="nofollow">http://draftss.com</a>) and we understand the significance of the amount paid for licenses every year. This isn't limited to learning just Photoshop; instead there are abundant number of softwares like Illustrator, CorelDraw, Indesign, Sketch, etc. that are necessary for designers to be familiar with. The cost makes it difficult for budding designers to spend time in learning multiple softwares efficiently.
Well done to the guy. What an interesting time, when a person can spend 5 hours per day for 3 years creating a product that has 1.5M visitors per month, but makes just about enough money from it to not be poor. Hopefully he can think of a better monetization scheme.
Interesting project. It works reasonably well and should be fine for light editing. It's comparable to other photoshop clones I've seen. It has a lot of the core features of photoshop and copies its UX. Of course Photoshop has more features, is probably a bit faster with certain things, and probably has some algorithmic edges. Nevertheless, impressive effort.<p>I'm guessing a lot of oss photography libraries and tools may be ported to wasm eventually. SIMD and threading are going to be two big enablers for this. That's also something that may benefit this project. T
his hacker news post from a year ago,
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15924402" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15924402</a>
Wow, this is maybe the best "online editor" experience I've had so far... Very impressed.<p>Curious if there could be a way to use it completely offline (on a non-connected laptop while on a trip or something), but that would be a rare occurrence for me.<p>Since it all happens client-side, this may be my new "I need a quick edit" editor
Recently I started using Gravit Designer as my go-to graphic editor of choice. It's free to use and really fast for being a web app! It does vector graphics and has most of the features I need.
I have been using Photopea for a while now, especially since I moved to a Linux machine from Windows and being a Photoshop enthusiast I would say, this is the best alternative outh there.
whilst I don't really care so much about those things, the layout, icons and nomenclature of most functions seems to be <i>eghmmm</i> 'borrowed' directly from Adobe. I'm not sure how I'd felt if I'd invest millions and years of research into something, and someone else would re-create ~50% of it and make it free...