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    PhotoEditor SDK Web Demo

    Easily bring beautiful photo editing to your applications.
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    Why PhotoEditor SDK

    Create Unique Experiences

    Customize the UI for the perfect photo experience across all platforms, while matching your look and feel.

    1

    Drive
    Engagement

    Add photo editing to your application to create inspiring and compelling experiences that keep users engaged.

    2

    Accelerate Time to Market

    Free up your engineering team to focus on growth and innovation, while accelerating release cycles.

    3
    HP
    Shopify
    Reuters
    Hootsuite
    Semrush
    Shutterfly
    Sprout Social
    One.com
    Constant Contact

    Packed with Features

    Fully Customizable

    Fully Customizable

    Match your app's look and feel for a seamless photo editing experience. Improve adoption by streamlining the UI.

    From URL or Camera

    From URL or Camera

    Open the camera preview and pass images directly to your mobile app for editing, or load them into your web app from a URL.

    Templating

    Templating

    Create customizable design templates by serializing edits as a separate layer that can be restored on other platforms or devices.

    Configurable Presets

    Configurable Presets

    Enforce a consistent aesthetic across all photo creations by using preset filters, adjustments, fonts, and crop ratios.

    Element Snapping

    Element Snapping

    Snap stickers and text to control points for more precise placement with our snapping tool.

    Dynamic Stickers

    Dynamic Stickers

    Dynamically insert text into stickers, such as the current date or temperature, from your mobile app. Pull data from any source.

    Localization

    Localization

    Add support for additional languages, or customize any existing button label.

    EXIF Data

    EXIF Data

    Read and write file EXIF metadata. Preserve metadata when opening and exporting files.

    Undo and Redo

    Undo and Redo

    Allow your users to undo and redo all operations, including image manipulations.

    Output Formats

    Output Formats

    Choose the desired output file format (JPEG or PNG for web, HEIF or TIFF for mobile) and compression quality.

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    Solutions for Use Cases

    Social Media
    E-Commerce
    Print
    Annotation
    Stock Photography
    Cloud Storage
    Marketing
    CMS / Website Builder

    Social Media

    Boost engagement by letting users create beautiful photos and stories directly within your application. Personalize photos with custom hashtag overlays, stickers, filters, and more. Or enforce a consistent aesthetic by providing customizable design templates and preset filters.

    E-Commerce

    Increase conversion rates and average order value with detailed product imagery that shows the customer exactly what they’re getting. Make products stand out with photo editing tools, like cropping, color adjustment, photo filters, and more. Optimize images so they load quickly for better SEO.

    Print on Demand

    Increase revenue with beautiful & customizable photo books. Let customers adjust and correct their photos, or enhance them with creative tools such as custom text, free-hand drawing, or stickers. Offer a set of professionally designed photo frames they can customize with their own photos.

    Annotation

    Allow users to capture photos from their camera directly within your app, and then markup areas with text, brush and custom shapes. Clean up photos by cropping, rotating, adjusting colors, and more, while preserving all EXIF data. Annotated images can be shared, uploaded to a server, or published into a report.

    Stock Photography

    Make it easy for contributors to submit polished stock photos by offering post-processing directly within your application. Programmatically resize and crop images, or overlay watermarks to prevent unauthorized use. Preserve, edit, or add EXIF metadata.

    Cloud Storage

    Allow users to edit their photos from your platform, using any device, before uploading for storage. Crop, rotate, adjust colors or brightness, and more, while ensuring a consistent image output across platforms. Preserve, edit, or add EXIF metadata.

    Marketing

    Improve clickthrough rates with better campaign and newsletter imagery. Allow users to overlay custom text onto images, crop, resize, add filters, and more, from an inline editor directly within your application. Accelerate the production of campaign assets by creating customizable design templates and preset filters.

    CMS / Website Builder

    Give users the option to edit and touch up their images, from within your CMS or website builder, by using their browser or mobile app. Crop, rotate, adjust colors or brightness, and more, while ensuring a consistent image output across platforms.

    The Swiss Army Knife of Photo Editing

    Powerful Editing Tools

    Adjustments
    Brush
    Filter
    Focus
    Frames
    Overlays
    Stickers
    Text
    Text Design
    Transform

    Adjustments

    A Swiss Army Knife for image optimization and post-processing, PhotoEditor SDK offers adjustment tools for fine-tuning images and producing striking creatives.

    Customization Options

    To streamline the UI, adjustment options can be enabled or disabled. Out-of-the-box options include Brightness, Saturation, Contrast, Gamma, Clarity, Exposure, Shadows, Highlights, Whites, Blacks, and Temperature.

    Brush

    The brush engine is optimized for touch screen interaction and supports different brush strokes that can be edited in terms of width, hardness and color.

    Customization Options

    Brush size presets can be customized, along with the default color and hardness.

    Filter

    The filter library contains over 60 categorized filters covering all state-of-the-art style and mood settings. Let users achieve the look and feel they desire with just a click.

    Customization Options

    By default, all filters are available to the user and can be disabled individually. The filter library can be expanded by importing & configuring custom LUT filters from Photoshop, GIMP, or Lightroom.

    Focus

    The focus tool adds a radial, mirrored, linear or gaussian blur to images creating depth and adding focus. The tool can also be used to mimic tilt-shift and bokeh effects.

    Customization Options

    Any focus mode can be enabled or disabled.

    Frames

    The frame tool works with any given photo size and ratio. It provides two distinct options to apply frames: The static option is optimized for complex and irregular frame assets, while the dynamic option works perfectly for assets with repeatable or stretchable areas.

    Customization Options

    Customize the library by either restricting available frames, or expanding the collection by uploading custom assets.

    Overlays

    Overlays are a powerful way to add a unique mood to the final composition. Users can create textured paper looks or lens flare lighting effects by using one of the available blend modes: Normal, Overlay, Hard Light, Soft Light, Multiply, Darken, Lighten, Screen, and Color Burn.

    Customization Options

    Expand the library by importing and configuring custom JPEG or PNG assets.

    Stickers

    PhotoEditor SDK ships with a categorized sticker library that is optimized for user exploration, and contains emoticons and shapes.

    Customization Options

    Add and remove stickers to the library, or let users upload their own sticker designs. Stickers can be rotated or have its tint color adjusted by the user.

    Text

    The text feature lets users quickly add text to any picture or creative. Users can edit font size, color, and line spacing. It is also possible to add a colorful background to create text panels.

    Customization Options

    Easily add new custom fonts to the library, or remove existing fonts.

    Text Design

    The text design tool marries input-text with typography, creating modern lettering designs. Change colors or shuffle options with a randomizer function.

    Customization Options

    The current version of the PhotoEditor SDK does not support creating custom text designs. However, the available text design layouts can be pre-defined.

    Transform

    The transform capability includes cropping, flipping, and rotation operations. PhotoEditor SDK includes preset crop ratios like 16:9, 1:1, and popular formats for Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms.

    Customization Options

    Alter preset crop ratios or create new ones. Enforce crop sizes by pre-defining available aspect ratios.

    A Custom Editor for your Use Case

    Custom Assets

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    Custom Aspect Ratio

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    Custom Components

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    Serialization & Templates

    All edits can be saved anytime. Pick up designs where you left off, and share templates across plattforms.

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    Customize the Editor to make it fit perfectly
    to your Use Case and UI

    Custom Assets

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    Custom Aspect Ratio

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    Custom Components

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    Enforce Aspect Ratio

    Start the editor right off with cropping images to the necessary aspect ratio.  

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    Serialization & Templates

    All edits can be saved anytime. Pick up designs where you left off, and share templates across plattforms.

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    Integrate & customize with ease. We support major platforms and provide granular control via code.
    <html>
    <head>
    <script src="https://unpkg.com/photoeditorsdk/umd/index.js"></script>
    </head>
    <body>
    <div id="editor" style="width: 100vw; height: 100vh;"></div>
    <script>
    PhotoEditorSDK.PhotoEditorSDKUI.init({
    container: '#editor',
    // Please replace this with your license
    // https://account.photoeditorsdk.com/dashboard/subscriptions
    license: '',
    image: 'example.jpg',
    })
    </script>
    </body>
    </html>
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