imageedit 2020.3

Create various icon masks and shading effects with the imageedit library

Python.ImageEdit

Create various icon masks and shading effects with the imageedit library. Four example files: round.py, makeProjIcons.py, makePWAImages.py and getPWAScreenshots.py. Includes imagetracer.py. imagetracer.py uses JS and is much faster than previous implementations. Takes a few seconds and has no cap.

Library Files

See the Docs for more information.

Example Files

• makeProjIcons.py
• makePWAImages.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

• Minimal: few dependencies required (python and pillow)
• Quick: when given a regular or mask image it can produce a large number or variants in a relatively short amount of time
• Customisable: 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

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

Changelog

See the CHANGELOG for more information.

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

Licence

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

Screenshots

Desktop