Editing images

2018-10-16 — 2022-10-12

Wherein methods of refining images for online use are disclosed, and browser utilities for compression and anonymisation are cited, with specific mention of Squoosh for compaction and an image scrubber for privacy.

computers are awful
generative art
making things
photon choreography

See also colour, diagrams etc.

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1 AI cheating

See AI image editing.

2 Modern image formats

See image formats.

3 Command line image editing

See programmatic image editing.

4 GUIs

GUIs? You want, e.g. the Adobe suite? I’ll never touch that because of the economics of comparative advantage… But sometimes you need a few pixels nipped and tucked without any fuss.

See image editing GUIs.

5 Making images smaller for the internet

Squoosh is a browser-based image compactor which works on raster and vector graphics from the browser.

6 Anonymising images for the internet

Image scrubber is a browser-based option motivated by recent protests.