WASM-ImageMagick

hello, as always: imho (!) congratulations on shipping!! fwiw: i have to admit, i may be getting "to old" to understand this online/service hype which took over "the it world" years ago ... create an online-service and market it with "no upload", "local", "privacy" etc... idk ... whats the advantage over "my" image-conversion-tool which i use heavily since decades ... if i remember it correctly, since around the late 1990ties (!) ... drummroll ... meet: ImageMagick ~ Mastering Digital Image Alchemy * https://imagemagick.org/ its utility called "convert" does everything a "normal" person could want for image-conversion. its FOSS, runs locally in your terminal or GUI, produces stunning results and again: no internet needed, no privacy-concerns etc... source-code available at * https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick it has lots of langua

Hi HN! A little while ago I had to do an image edit that was fairly simple but too complex for Preview. As someone who isn't great at Photoshop, I turned to ImageMagick. But then I had to figure out the correct ImageMagick command and get ImageMagick installed on my laptop. In total, a simple image edit took about 30 minutes. I made ImageCalc to make that easier. It uses GPT-3 to turn a plain text description into an ImageMagick command, and then WASM[1] to run ImageMagick in the browser (so your image never leaves your device). Here's a quick demo of what it can do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u3sXqgh3A8 It doesn't work 100% of the time, but it's so quick to try that I've already found myself reaching for ImageCalc before anything else. It's especially helpful if you want to figure out the right command for a web service or batch c

Looks like someone has gotten pretty far WASM-ifying ImageMagick already [1]! [1]: https://github.com/KnicKnic/WASM-ImageMagick