It’s also created by a single person who generates over $1M in annual revenue.[0]<p>He’s also commented on HN about it.[1]<p>[0] <a href="https://www.failory.com/interview/photopea" rel="nofollow">https://www.failory.com/interview/photopea</a><p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26769141" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26769141</a>
Photopea is a remarkable thing, so much functionality in only a few megabytes! Why is Adobe Photoshop so bloated?<p>Unfortunate the licensing model means Photopea is not FOSS and not available in a proper self-hosted form (e.g. a docker container):<p><a href="https://github.com/photopea/photopea/issues/4870" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/photopea/photopea/issues/4870</a><p><a href="https://github.com/photopea/photopea/issues/1565" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/photopea/photopea/issues/1565</a><p>(They do have a channel for you to email them and request [beg?] an API key license thing, see: <a href="https://www.photopea.com/api/accounts#self-hosted" rel="nofollow">https://www.photopea.com/api/accounts#self-hosted</a>)<p>I wonder if anyone has compiled GIMP to Wasm yet..
Every once in a while I need to edit an image on macOS.<p>I used to open GIMP, wait on the loading screen for 3 minutes so that it rebuilt the font cache ("Looking for data files: Fonts (this may take a while)"), open the image, use Cage Transform (wait 30 seconds for it to process the image), save to my home dir, because on recent versions of macOS it does not properly handle permissions to write in Documents folder ("Could not read the contents of Documents").<p>Now I open GIMP, remember that Photopea exists, quit GIMP, open Photopea, drop the image, transform it (every time I'm surprised at how fast it is for a JavaScript app) and just export the image to my Downloads folder.<p>I'm so happy I don't have to use GIMP anymore.
This has dropped all my needs for Photoshop down to zero (I use it about once a month for things that range from tweaking a picture for someone to cleaning up an illustration for a book).<p>It is great, I recommend it a few times a year, and my only hope is that the author has plans to open source it if he ever gets hit by a bus.
There's another online photo editor which has got a very similar GUI once you get past the rather garish and awful looking title screen: <a href="https://pixlr.com/e/" rel="nofollow">https://pixlr.com/e/</a>
This is a good site for people who insist that js is limited and too slow. I'm really surprised at how quick this is, given such a full feature set.
I've been using this on/off for sometime. I've realised must of my editing is very basic and this has been overkill for little tasks as adding text overlay and cropping.