Developing the best free photo editor - Ivan KUCKIR - Web2day 2019

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Ivan Kuckir, the creator of Photopea, explains at Web2day 2019 how he built a browser-based photo editor that opens Photoshop files, largely on his own. He covers the technology choices and how he keeps it small and cheap to run.

HN people share it as the first-hand story of how one developer built a free Photoshop alternative, and Kuckir himself links it in threads about Photopea.

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#photopea#photoeditor#webapp#solodeveloper#canvas#webgl

6 comments from Hacker News

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@vvoyer2021 · in “AMA: Ivan Kutskir, creator of Photopea”
Hey Ivan, congrats! Had a great time with you 2 years ago when you came to Nantes, France to explain "Developing the best free photo editor". Check-out his explanations here: ▶ this video Legend.
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@bane2020 · in “Developing the best free photo editor – Ivan KUCKIR – Web2day 2019”
Submitted the video to Hacker News.
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@modzu2020 · in “Gimp 2.10.20”
if anyone wants to know more, here's a cool talk about it: ▶ this video the whole thing is just 2MB of JS written by one guy!
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@IvanK_net2022 · in “Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions”
Thanks, I loved it there! :) I gave a talk in Nantes about making Photopea: ▶ this video
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@IvanK_net2021 · in “AMA: Ivan Kutskir, creator of Photopea”
I gave a talk about it two years ago :) ▶ this video
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@IvanK_net2019 · in “Founder came back after 8 years to rewrite Flash photo editor in Canvas/WebGL”
Yes, Photopea is only one HTML, one CSS and many JS files. It is about 1.5 MB in total. I pay 40 USD a year for the hosting + 12 USD a year for the .com domain. I gave a talk about it: ▶ this video
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