Show HN: Better photo filters for web

Nice. I open sourced something similar a little while back https://github.com/joshduck/PixelStir/ (demo at pixelstir.com).

Was just thinking of making something similar today, but with a twist - let users create, save, and share their own filters. You could then show the popular filters, new filters, etc.

Nice...good execution and I like that instead of forcing the user to create an account, you give them an optional account to use in the future, as well as the ready-to-send image.

I don't know if this is meant to be just a hobby project or a MVP...but if it's the latter, I wouldn't position it as "better at making beautiful photos via filters". It's not just because that's a subjective argument between Instagram/Flickr/etc, but because the appeal of Instagram, in particular, is that it is so seamlessly tied to people's most frequently-used photo device and one with a large user network. People like the filters, but it's the casualness and the addictiveness of acquiring "Likes" that is Instagram's main draw, and that's more of a UI/UX thing than aesthetic appeal.

Very nice. I was just looking at CamanJS [0] for a project, and your project overlaps with Caman with regard to filters. However, the great thing about your version is how instantaneous the changes are. Caman is great too, but making any changes results in a 1/2 second to 2 second wait on my machine.

Anyway, very nice work.

Edit: One note: I find the jump in effect for vignetting from 0 to 1 rather large. Maybe start the vignetting much further out so that the jump isn't quite so big?

[0] http://camanjs.com/examples/

Great idea, also listed at http://stockphotos.io/resources/photo-editor/

Very nice, love the simplicity.

One thing I would tweak though: when you punch in the numbers for brightness and vignette (instead of using up/down), the effect doesn't take place until you click somewhere on the page. Would be nice to see it auto update as you write the values.

Better: http://webcamtoy.com

My biggest issue is no description of the website anywhere! While I personally can figure out the purpose and usage, I think that it may confuse others. Otherwise nice work.

The nicest / most surprising thing to me was the instant image preview. In less than a second I had 'uploaded' a huge image and was editing. Nice work.

I don't get why everyone is so positive! The filters are horrible and just very basic color transforms. most leave a sickly look to the photo due to greens and blues.

just went to use your twitter link, its a bit too intrusive for my liking. i just wanted to tweet about your site.