imageedit 2020.5

Create various icon masks and shading effects with the imageedit library

ImageEdit

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Create various icon masks and shading effects with the imageedit library. Six example files under main: round.py, makeProjIcons.py, makePWAImages.py, makeRetro.py, getPWAScreenshots.py and readWriteLayered.py.

Leverages the following libraries to do the heavy lifting:

pillow
layeredimage
svgtrace
blendmodes

Have a look under test/test_readWriteLayered for an example of converting an xcf to ora and png. Unfortunately, visibility of xcf is currently ignored :(

• Documentation
• Example Files
• Comparison to similar solutions
  • GUI
  • Web
  • Advantages of this solution
  • Disadvantages of this solution
• How to use out of the box
  • makePWAImages
  • makeRetro
• Install With PIP
• Language information
  • Built for
• Install Python on Windows
  • Chocolatey
  • Download
• Install Python on Linux
  • Apt
• How to run
  • With VSCode
  • From the Terminal
• Download
  • Clone
    • Using The Command Line
    • Using GitHub Desktop
  • Download Zip File
• Community Files
  • Licence
  • Changelog
  • Code of Conduct
  • Contributing
  • Security
• Screenshots
  • Desktop

Documentation

See the DOCS for more information.

See the documentation for each library for more information on things you can use it for.

Example Files

• getPWAScreenshots.py
• makeProjIcons.py
• makePWAImages.py
• makeRetro.py
• readWriteLayered.py
• round.py

Comparison to similar solutions

Similar solutions include but are not limited to:

GUI

https://www.getpaint.net/

Web

https://realfavicongenerator.net/

Advantages of this solution

• Lightweight: few dependencies required (python, pillow, blendmodes, layeredimage, and svgtrace)
• Quick: when given a regular or mask image it can produce many variants in a relatively short amount of time
• Customizable: write your own scripts to leverage imageEdit (python knowledge required)
• Produce a PWA mask icon out of the box
• SVG tracing lib doesn't require potrace/ pypotrace which can be challenging to set up on Windows
• SVG tracing using imageTracerJs.py (https://github.com/jankovicsandras/imagetracerjs) is pretty good (requires pyppeteer: https://github.com/miyakogi/pyppeteer)

Disadvantages of this solution

• Specific image dimensions needed out of the box: whilst this is something that could be changed, maskable icons are 640x640 and regular icons are 512x512

How to use out of the box

makePWAImages

1. Put regular 512x512 image or mask 640x640 image under main/input in this example I am using lightfox.png

   

2. Run makePWAImages.py and navigate to main/output/lightfox.png/pwa

   

makeRetro

1. Put regular 512x512 image or mask 640x640 image under main/input. In this example I am using BlendModes.png

   

2. Run makeRetro.py and navigate to main/output/blendmodes.png/retro Personal Computers

   

   Mobile Operating Systems

   iOS

   

   Android

   

Install With PIP

pip install imageedit

Head to https://pypi.org/project/imageedit/ for more info

See python files under main for example usage

Language information

Built for

This program has been written for Python 3 and has been tested with Python version 3.8.0 https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-380/.

Install Python on Windows

Chocolatey

choco install python

Download

To install Python, go to https://www.python.org/ and download the latest version.

Install Python on Linux

Apt

sudo apt install python3.8

How to run

With VSCode

1. Open the .py file in vscode
2. Ensure a python 3.8 interpreter is selected (Ctrl+Shift+P > Python:Select Interpreter > Python 3.8)
3. Run by pressing Ctrl+F5 (if you are prompted to install any modules, accept)

From the Terminal

./[file].py

Download

Clone

Using The Command Line

1. Press the Clone or download button in the top right
2. Copy the URL (link)
3. Open the command line and change directory to where you wish to clone to
4. Type 'git clone' followed by URL in step 2

$ git clone https://github.com/[user-name]/[repository]

More information can be found at https://help.github.com/en/articles/cloning-a-repository

Using GitHub Desktop

1. Press the Clone or download button in the top right
2. Click open in desktop
3. Choose the path for where you want and click Clone

More information can be found at https://help.github.com/en/desktop/contributing-to-projects/cloning-a-repository-from-github-to-github-desktop

Download Zip File

1. Download this GitHub repository
2. Extract the zip archive
3. Copy/ move to the desired location

Community Files

Licence

MIT License Copyright (c) FredHappyface (See the LICENSE for more information.)

Changelog

See the Changelog for more information.

Code of Conduct

In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, we as contributors and maintainers pledge to make participation in our project and our community a harassment-free experience for everyone. Please see the Code of Conduct for more information.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome, please see the Contributing Guidelines for more information.

Security

Thank you for improving the security of the project, please see the Security Policy for more information.

Screenshots

Desktop