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Comment by IvanK_net | Hacker News Reader

Hi guys, I am Ivan (author of Photopea) and I would like to thank you all.

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!

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Great job building a product people use!

I was curious that given its an JS/Client side app, do you have any plans of porting it to Electron[0] to make it a cross platform app?

The reason I'm asking is coz editing my photos online makes me a bit nervous. For you the benefit may be that you don't have to test for different browsers and handle the compatibility nightmare.

0: https://electronjs.org/

I've been using Photopea for the past few weeks since my installed version of Photoshop is too old to modify some of the more recent PSD's I come across.

Just wanted to say thanks for an excellent product!

(It's real funny how you discover something for the first time, then start seeing it everywhere like it should have been obvious before!)

You are experiencing Frequency Illusion sometimes referred to as the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon: https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human.... Once I learned about Baader-Meinhof I started to notice it everywhere. ;)

Hey, does this have anything like GIMP's color-to-alpha filter? I can't find anything in the menus, but it's the one thing that GIMP has that Photoshop doesn't which I use very often.

Question: How does one go about building a large-scale graphical app in the browser?

Now, I know a lot about the bits and pieces of web development, but not how to design and organize such an app.

This looks amazing. Just one question: what are the privacy guarantees? Will images, metadata, etc. always stay local and never be sent to another machine?

No. For example if you open an image from a URL, the photopea server will download it and serve it to the client. Unfortunately, I think this is technically necessary for many URLs because of cross origin policy.

Okay, how about once the images are on the local machine? Will they ever be sent elsewhere?

The author says "Photopea runs completely at client-side, there is no server-side computation."

https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9urjmg/i_made_a_free_... https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9urjmg/i_made_a_free_...

Oh awesome. Thank you!

Please post a Patreon donation link on your post, you deserve to be compensated!

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