imageedit 2023

Create various icon masks and shading effects with the imageedit library

ImageEdit

Now available on pypi.org!

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
blendmodes
colourswatch
layeredimage
metprint
svgtrace

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

• Example Files
• Comparison to similar solutions
  • GUI
  • Web
  • Advantages of this solution
  • Disadvantages of this solution
• How to use out of the box
  • get_pwa_screenshots.py
  • make_phone_screenshots.py
  • make_proj_icons.py
  • make_pwa_images.py
  • make_retro.py
  • read_write_layered.py
  • round.py
• Documentation
• Install With PIP
• Language information
  • Built for
• Install Python on Windows
  • Chocolatey
  • Windows - Python.org
• Install Python on Linux
  • Apt
  • Dnf
• Install Python on MacOS
  • Homebrew
  • MacOS - Python.org
• How to run
  • Windows
  • Linux/ MacOS
• Building
• Testing
• Download Project
  • Clone
    • Using The Command Line
    • Using GitHub Desktop
  • Download Zip File
• Community Files
  • Licence
  • Changelog
  • Code of Conduct
  • Contributing
  • Security
  • Support
  • Rationale

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

Example Files

• get_pwa_screenshots.py
• make_phone_screenshots.py
• make_poj_icons.py
• make_pwa_images.py
• make_retro.py
• read_write_layered.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)

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

get_pwa_screenshots.py

make_phone_screenshots.py

make_proj_icons.py

make_pwa_images.py

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

   

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

   

make_retro.py

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

   

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

   

   Mobile Operating Systems

   iOS

   

   Android

   

read_write_layered.py

round.py

Documentation

A high-level overview of how the documentation is organized organized will help you know where to look for certain things:

• The Technical Reference documents APIs and other aspects of the machinery. This documentation describes how to use the classes and functions at a lower level and assume that you have a good high-level understanding of the software.

Install With PIP

pip install imageedit

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

Language information

Built for

This program has been written for Python versions 3.8 - 3.11 and has been tested with both 3.8 and 3.11

Install Python on Windows

Chocolatey

choco install python

Windows - Python.org

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

Install Python on Linux

Apt

sudo apt install python3.x

Dnf

sudo dnf install python3.x

Install Python on MacOS

Homebrew

brew install python@3.x

MacOS - Python.org

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

How to run

Windows

• Module py -3.x -m [module] or [module] (if module installs a script)

• File py -3.x [file] or ./[file]

Linux/ MacOS

• Module python3.x -m [module] or [module] (if module installs a script)

• File python3.x [file] or ./[file]

Building

This project uses https://github.com/FHPythonUtils/FHMake to automate most of the building. This command generates the documentation, updates the requirements.txt and builds the library artefacts

Note the functionality provided by fhmake can be approximated by the following

handsdown  --cleanup -o documentation/reference
poetry export -f requirements.txt --output requirements.txt
poetry export -f requirements.txt --with dev --output requirements_optional.txt
poetry build

fhmake audit can be run to perform additional checks

Testing

For testing with the version of python used by poetry use

poetry run pytest

Alternatively use tox to run tests over python 3.8 - 3.11

tox

Download Project

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/FHPythonUtils/ImageEdit
   

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

Online communities include people from many backgrounds. The Project contributors are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all. 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.

Support

Thank you for using this project, I hope it is of use to you. Please be aware that those involved with the project often do so for fun along with other commitments (such as work, family, etc). Please see the Support Policy for more information.

Rationale

The rationale acts as a guide to various processes regarding projects such as the versioning scheme and the programming styles used. Please see the Rationale for more information.