What's New

Easily integrate CE.SDK into your React Native and Expo applications.

This plug-and-play solution simplifies integration, making it faster and easier to implement CE.SDK in your apps. Our React Native and Expo Support is built on top of our native editor solutions, enabling you to use our existing iOS and Android editor UI variants supporting a broad range of use cases.

At launch, you can choose between:

• Camera UI
• Video Editor
• Design Editor
• Photo Editor
• Apparel Editor
• Postcard Editor

Additionally to our existing editor variants, you can create your own editor variant to suit your particular use case using our native API.

Empower your users to create visually dynamic text designs with Rich Text Editing: This feature allows multiple fonts, sizes, and styles within a single text block, unlocking endless customization possibilities.

From eye-catching headlines to seamless body text, your users can mix and match styles without needing multiple text blocks.

You can now easily customize your CE.SDK editor by adding your own icons. You can upload icons through our API to match your brand or design style. Whether you want to replace default icons or add custom ones to your features, this update gives you full creative control.

Easily integrate video recording capabilities into your Android app: our new Camera UI for Android empowers users to capture high-quality videos directly within your app, streamlining the content creation process. With intuitive controls and customizable settings, it’s designed to fit seamlessly into your app’s workflow.

If you’re already using our Video Editor for Android, which includes a sleek timeline editor, you can easily enhance functionality by adding clips and selecting ‘Camera’ to record new footage directly into your timeline.

With the Android Camera UI, your users can create engaging video content without requiring additional tools, keeping them fully engaged within your app.

Apply solid color backgrounds to text. Additionally, adjust padding and rounded corners of your text background. This new feature ensures readability and adds a polished, professional touch to your designs. By elevating text design, your app helps users create visually compelling content that stands out.

Record and embed live reactions directly into videos for a more interactive, dynamic experience. Users can capture personal responses, commentary, or tutorials, enriching video content and enhancing engagement.

This functionality taps into popular video formats, as seen on TikTok and Instagram, giving your app a competitive edge by fostering authentic, shareable user interactions.

This feature empowers your app to drive higher user engagement and retention, giving your customers the tools to stand out in content-driven markets.

Try our iOS demo.

Add motion to individual letters or words for custom, eye-catching animations. Create standout titles and engaging visuals for social media, marketing, and more.

With various animation styles, this update provides greater control and personalization for professional, dynamic designs.

This update helps your users produce more polished, visually captivating content and elevates your app’s value in high-competition spaces like social media and advertising.

We're introducing animation support for our Video Editor for the web. With this update, you can now apply various animations, such as blur, zoom, and slide, to elements directly within the editor.

Animate and Fine-Tune Settings

Select a ‘block’ on your canvas — that includes images, videos, text, shapes, and stickers. Then choose from twelve in-and-out animations or nine loop animations. Lastly, fine-tune your selected animation, by tweaking the properties, for custom movement and transition.

We are proud to launch our video editing and content creation tools for Android, following our tried and tested iOS launch. Get started with a fully customizable UI for video editing:

Now Android users can crop, split, trim, and compose videos. Add multiple elements—videos, photos, stickers, and more—to a timeline to create engaging content. Editing options like filters, effects, and audio tracks turn it into a one-stop solution for video creation.

Integrate your custom asset library for stock photos, videos, stickers, and music.

With customizable video formats, users can create content for specific platforms like Instagram and TikTok. Whether it’s stories or Ultra HD, the canvas auto-adjusts, making it easy to tailor videos for any need.

Explore our Android Showcase and Documentation.

Get started with our new Design Editor configuration for iOS and Android!

The out-of-the-box package is designed for easy creation and management of multipage designs.Users can switch between editing and the page overview mode to review and adjust their work.

Keep the design process straightforward and efficient: the editor features a dock at the bottom, offering convenient access to essential tools like adding text, images, stickers, and uploading new assets. Additionally, you can insert a photo directly from your camera.

Page Management
Create and manage your design pages within a template. It’s easy to create fun carousel posts, as seen on Instagram and LinkedIn, or create a series. Head to the ‘Pages’ icon on the top right bar. In the page overview, you can create, duplicate, and edit a page. Lastly, you can change the order of pages by moving them up and down.

Image Settings
Selecting an image lets you fine-tune adjustment settings, and add filters, effects, or blur. Easily crop, straighten, rotate, or flip images.

Try the Design Editor Configuration on iOS and Android.

We're excited to introduce the first part of our plugin release for CE.SDK on the web: with this release, you can tailor the editor’s UI elements, reorder components, and add quick actions like background removal.

We’ve enabled extension points within key areas of the UI: the Canvas, Navigation bar, Inspector Bar, Dock, and Canvas Menu. Modify the appearance of existing features, register new components, and integrate quick actions. For example, you can add a "Background Removal" button directly in the Canvas Menu or create complex interactions like custom cut-out lines.

For more details on this first batch release and the upcoming plugins, please read our dedicated article below.

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Add voiceover tracks directly within your mobile app, making your projects more dynamic and engaging. Whether creating a tutorial, narrating a slideshow, or adding commentary to a video, this feature allows you to seamlessly record, edit, and integrate voiceovers.

The popular feature, as enjoyed on TikTok and Instagram, is a staple for content creation and adds a personal touch to video creations.

To get started, navigate to “Add Audio”, select “Voiceover” section and start recording. You can preview the recording, re-record it, and add more audio, such as music. Adjust the audio levels for a balanced background track.

Try recording a voiceover with our Demo App for iOS.

Our new Photo Editor Configuration is designed to offer an intuitive, out-of-the-box solution that bundles a range of key photo editing capabilities. Enhance individual photos, add text and shapes, or apply filters—this configuration is a kick-start to provide high-quality photo editing for iOS and Android with CE.SDK.

Replace colors in any image with our new recoloring feature. Select a color you want to change, choose its replacement, and apply the changes. Recoloring is ideal for tasks like altering the color of specific elements, such as t-shirts in product photos.

Simply choose your image, navigate to Effects, and select "Recolor". Choose the color you want to change (Source Color), and the color you want to replace it with (Target Color). For a more refined result, adjust "Smoothness", "Color Match", and "Brightness Match".

This feature is available on Web, Android, and iOS platforms.

Easily make green screen backgrounds transparent in your images and videos on the Web, and for images on Android and iOS. Our Green Screen Effect is tailored to identify and eliminate green backdrops—or any other color you specify. Perfect for content creators and videographers who need to isolate subjects without manually editing backgrounds.

Select an image or video clip with a color background you wish to remove. Then choose “Green Screen” in the Effects, and our effect handles the rest. Fine-tune the effect to your liking.

In our latest update, we've focused on enhancing the usability and functionality of our interface. Here's what's new:

Audio Preview

Choosing the right audio clip is now easier with our new Audio Preview feature. Preview audio clips directly within the interface and make the perfect selection for your projects.

Selection Frame Improvements

We've upgraded our selection frames with new icons, hover effects, enhanced drag functionality, and shadow rendering. These improvements make manipulating elements within our platform more intuitive and visually appealing. Whether you're rearranging components or resizing elements, our refined handling ensures a smoother interaction.

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Video Content Creation is here! Your users can record videos, blend them with audio, text, and graphics on a timeline. This includes features like countdown timer, and the popular split screen modes for reactions and duets. You may recognize these from Instagram Reels or TikTok. Making adjustments is straightforward using filters, effects, and adjustment settings.

Let's start with the Camera:

Record a video and utilize the Dual Camera feature. This allows you to record simultaneously with your front and back camera, producing a split-screen video. Determine when the recording begins using a countdown timer.

Users can reorder, arrange and split clips on a timeline, and use filters, visual effects, along with other adjustments to modify the appearance of clips and images. Add audio tracks, image or video overlays, format text, integrate stickers, and use tools for cropping, filtering, blurring, and adjusting images and videos. Try recording and editing Video Content with our Demo App for iOS.

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In the past, integrating our editors into your app required developers to manually collect code from our showcases and piece together the UI. This not only demanded effort but also necessitated frequent updates to ensure compatibility with each of our new releases.

To free your time and resources, we are now introducing ready-to-use UI packages for iOS and Android, that bring advanced editors directly to your app. This eliminates the previous labor-intensive process. These packages include a wide range of options, from a fully equipped Video Editor (iOS) and Camera UI (iOS) to specialized examples like an Apparel Editor or Postcard Editor.

We maintain UI packages for you, ensuring compatibility across devices and development environments. Now, you can immediately start with fully featured editors, staying up-to-date with just a click, and without manual intervention.

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We've made enhancements for a more user-friendly editor setup of CE.SDK.

To enhance legibility and perception of our UI elements, we have reworked our UI colors, making sure they meet the minimal contrast requirements for an improved experience. Additionally, the active state of settings is now more apparent than it was previously.

Next, libraries and all inspectors open on the same side of our default editor now, instead of on both sides. This reduces mouse travel, saves space, and streamlines workflows.

Additionally, you can now resize images more easily by dragging from any side, not just using the handles. This same feature is also applicable when cropping your image.

Lastly, elements stay selected after grouping or ungrouping. In the past, changing group settings would deselect your elements.

We recently launched our CE.SDK Video Editor for the Web. Since the release, we significantly improved the playback performance, leading to smoother editing and playback.

The timeline lets you arrange and edit videos, photos, text, audio, shapes, and stickers. Enhance projects with filters or adjustments, and add a personal touch with customizable audio. Precisely split, trim, and replace elements. Add audio files to make your project stand out. Try editing yourself with our Showcase for Sales Outreach Videos.

Our newly introduced Underlayer API guarantees the preservation of color purity whenever you export designs using our CE.SDK for print. This solution specifically addresses the challenge of maintaining the richness and vibrancy of colors, irrespective of the color of the canvas, which could range from apparel to paper.

When you're ready to export your design, this feature adds a special 'underbase' layer, underneath your design. This layer, typically a white or specific primer coat, makes sure the final printed colors match your original vision perfectly.

Our new Camera Zoom Limits make editing a design easier. Your page stays in focus to avoid accidental scrolling outside the design. The zoom level is set within a minimum and maximum range, ensuring a practical, usable view at all times. When you select an element in your design, it stays in focus when opening adjustments or other inspectors. It allows you to immediately see changes made to the selected element. This improvement is available for iOS and Android, and can be tested in our Design Editor Demo on the App Store and Google Play.

Create videos within your web app for any platform, including Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube! Here's what's new: the integrated timeline supports the arrangement of elements like videos, photos, text, audio, shapes and stickers. Users can fine-tune their projects with adjustments or filters, and personalize their creations with audio from a customizable library.

To simplify your content creation, use our formats that automatically set your canvas size for social media and other popular video resolutions.

Arrange and edit multiple elements within your videos, offering control over the editing process. Easily split, trim, and replace. Lastly, make it pop by adding audio files to the composition.
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Creating templates with placeholders for your users is just as easy: select an element, click 'Placeholder', and decide which elements can be edited.

Try the video editor live demo yourself. This showcase contains templates, audio and video examples for you to try.

With our new Camera Zoom Limits, editing a design is simpler. Your page remains in focus to prevent accidental scrolling outside the design. The zoom level is set within a minimum and maximum range for a sensible, usable view at all times. Lastly, when you select an element in your design, it will remain in focus when opening adjustments or any other inspectors. This allows you to instantly view changes made to the selected element.

Try our live Demo Design Editor for free, on Google Play.

Importing high-quality assets, like photos, can strain your device and impact your editor performance. Imagine editing on your phone and just importing a 5k pixels stock photo. Our smart engine steps in, creating an image source set with different resolutions: The intelligent engine selects the optimal target resolution for your asset and seamlessly switches to it.

The technical scoop? This update minimizes network bandwidth, loading times, and runtime memory usage.

Breathe life into your content and set the ambiance! We've recently updated the user interface on iOS to include Appearance Settings. Now, users can enhance their visual content with advanced improvements. This includes precise adjustments, creative filters, effects, and blur options.

Try our free Demo Design Editor, now live on the App Store.

Forge limitless combinations of photos, videos, texts, and shapes with our new boolean operations feature. This dynamic suite includes operations such as Combine, Subtract, Intersect, and Exclude.

Subtract text from a shape, or seamlessly merge a distinctive shape with a lively video clip. With these powerful tools, your creativity knows no bounds, offering the freedom to craft truly unique design elements.

Discover the convenience of Version History, enabling you to monitor changes made to each design and seamlessly restore past versions when needed. Explore our straightforward Version History showcase for a practical design experience.

In our new live showcase for web, effortlessly generate size variations of your designs and seamlessly scale your marketing materials across platforms. The automated resizing feature empowers you to easily leverage marketing materials without requiring the involvement of a design team, ensuring efficiency and adaptability.

In our latest update, our engine now directly registers mouse wheel events on the canvas, eliminating the need for manual camera manipulation. This seamless integration brings a host of new features, including smooth zooming, centered around the cursor, and support for pinch gestures on multitouch trackpads. Enjoy a more intuitive and unified interaction experience across various inputs, simplifying and enriching your design process.

Introducing Block Unification for CE.SDK on Mobile and Web—a feature that simplifies design versatility. Videos, images, shapes, and stickers now seamlessly come together as one Graphic Block, easily modified within a unified inspector. All supported settings for your selected block, including strokes, filters, and adjustments, are conveniently displayed in a single, user-friendly space.

Our editor now supports WebP images, delivering you an array of benefits. WebP is gaining popularity for its unique ability to strike the perfect balance between high image quality and smaller file sizes. This means your visuals will look stunning while optimizing website performance.

We're excited to introduce Camera Recording for Android, seamlessly integrating your live camera preview with our engine's extensive capabilities. This means you can apply a wide range of effects, strokes, and drop shadows to your live camera feed, all while ensuring it harmoniously blends into the composition of your scene.

We're excited to introduce a suite of responsive UI enhancements that ensure effortless editing on all devices, including smaller screens and mobile devices. Our editor adapts to limited screen space, automatically fits content to avoid cutoffs, hides button labels when space is tight, and ensures panels remain easy to use, even on small screens. Plus, you have complete control over when and where labels appear, allowing you to customize the interface to your liking.

Experience an enhanced video and audio experience on Android with our latest update. With our optimized codec performance, we've fine-tuned our tools to ensure your videos and audio play flawlessly. Enjoy smoother playback, especially when navigating through your content. Also, no more delays or interruptions when seeking in your videos or audio files. Now, you can effortlessly skip to your desired moments for uninterrupted enjoyment.

We understand the importance of precise color reproduction and the need for brand consistency. That's why we're enhancing your editing experience with greater color control.

You can now seamlessly integrate CMYK and Pantone color spaces, along with other customized color libraries, including your brand's unique colors.

This ensures that your designs not only meet but exceed expectations across all mediums, delivering a consistent and visually engaging experience. It also helps eliminate color inconsistencies and product returns, while ensuring color accuracy.

With this update, we're bringing a more interactive and responsive experience to our web applications. Let your users experience seamless multitouch interactions, even on mobile web. This ensures that the content and functionality of our web applications remain accessible and user-friendly across various devices.

Picture this: Your users are deep into a design project, and need to isolate an object from an image. Our latest feature simplifies this process. Whether it's a logo, text, or a complex shape - by clicking “Generate from Selection”, our system precisely detects object contours and effortlessly converts them into cutout lines. This means you can breeze through your design tasks without the hassle of manual tracing.

We have made significant enhancements to the way video thumbnails are generated, resulting in a smoother and more efficient workflow. Our intelligent engine now renders thumbnails seamlessly across multiple frames, ensuring there are no delays or interruptions while you work. Instead of slow JPEG compression, we have implemented a faster method using raw pixel buffers that maintain high-quality results.

If you're using web applications, the thumbnail width adapts to fit your screen, providing a seamless and enjoyable user experience. Additionally, our dynamic thumbnail generation adjusts based on the size of your clips and zoom level, optimizing resources and improving overall performance.

Introducing an enhanced placeholder behavior for text and image content, allowing for seamless editing and replacement. With the new PlaceholderBehavior concept, you can define whether a block should initially look and behave as a placeholder or allow editing/replacement. This feature provides a smooth editing experience for users and offers flexibility for template designers to differentiate between placeholder and desired content.

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We're excited to announce the addition of macOS platform support to our lineup. Extend your application's reach to macOS users and provide a seamless editing experience across different platforms.

With this new feature, we provide a comprehensive solution for developers looking to enhance their iOS applications with our CE.SDK’s editing capabilities.

Whether you want to add a captivating video overlay or include background music, the possibilities are endless. What's included:

• Time Offset and Duration control: Give each block a specific time offset and duration, allowing them to appear and disappear at desired intervals. For example, you can overlay a sticker on your video for a brief moment, creating eye-catching effects.
• API integration: Currently, this feature can be controlled via API, providing flexibility and control for advanced customization.

We are thrilled to announce that this engaging feature will soon be available across all our user interfaces.

With CE.SDK's H.265 support for iOS, you can deliver high-quality video playback on iOS devices while enjoying the benefits of improved video compression and reduced file sizes. Enhance your users' experience with faster video streaming, enhanced storage efficiency, and exceptional visual quality.

Selecting blocks in complex designs can be tedious and time-consuming. But with our refined selection behavior, we've made it effortless. With this enhancement, you can now effortlessly select and interact with elements in your designs, even in the most intricate compositions. Our advanced algorithm considers the shape of the block and the transparency of the fill, ensuring precise and intuitive selections.

Simplify the management and editing of groups in your designs with our latest enhancements. Experience a seamless workflow on both desktop and mobile devices, as you navigate and manipulate group elements. With clear hover-states and selection visualizations, group relationships become more apparent, allowing for precise editing and arrangement of elements. Your users can achieve the perfect composition for their designs with ease.

We're thrilled to introduce a more versatile approach to configuring the engine with our latest update. Now, you have the power to fine-tune every aspect of the engine's settings using comprehensive API calls. This enhanced configurability empowers you to customize your editor precisely according to your requirements. Embrace the flexibility and control to create an editing experience that aligns perfectly with your vision. Learn more about the changes in detail and how to migrate to CE.SDK v1.13 in our documentation.

@imgly/background-removal is a powerful open-source JavaScript library that allows seamlessly background removal of images directly in the browser. With its unique features and capabilities, this package offers enhanced productivity, cost-efficiency, and data privacy while achieving stunning results. Try it out in our background removal showcase. This highly requested feature will soon be available within CE.SDK

getTextCursorRange empowers you to access the current cursor range within the text editor. This feature opens up a world of possibilities, whether you're building a custom user interface or implementing text-related automation. You can:

• Query the text cursor offset and the current selected text range.
• Automate text generation and insertion with precision.
• Seamlessly integrate this functionality into your workflow and unlock new possibilities for your text-centric projects.

No more guesswork. Instead, welcome a more accurate and efficient text editing experience. Retrieve the current cursor range effortlessly, and precisely insert content exactly where you need it.

We are excited to announce that CE.SDK now supports cutout lines, which includes a new type of block that enables users to create these lines and perform cutout line combinations. A future update will allow dynamic generation of such lines for existing blocks. This feature is based on the technology used for named/spot colors and is available for use with a range of printers.

Create Cutout and Adjust Offset
By providing precise control over the offset, we enable print businesses to ensure accurate and high-quality output for their users. Empower your users to create designs with exceptional precision, perfect for applications like stickers.

In our Advanced Text Styling, users can now adjust multiple new settings to enhance the visual appeal of their designs:

• Letter case settings, including uppercase, lowercase, and title case.

Using the new styling settings enhances your design's visual appeal while reducing implementation time and effort.

CE.SDK's new Automatic Font Size feature adjusts font size to fit within text frame constraints, enabling users to create visually appealing designs with ease. For example, a text placeholder for names will now adjust the font size for longer names, ensuring they fit perfectly within a print design. Users can now enter as much text as they need, without worrying about it overflowing out of the designated frame.

Exciting news: our Getty Images Library SDK seamlessly integrates image search, licensing, and editing into your app, giving users easy access to a vast stock image collection. This integration streamlines workflows, ensures legal compliance, and boosts creativity, all with a quick and simple setup.

The latest feature, Video Composition, allows users to seamlessly merge and edit footage, applying advanced filters and arranging video sequences in their preferred order. Furthermore, the update introduces high-quality audio support, enabling users to add or replace sound in videos by loading audio files and trimming them to match their footage. Additionally, developers can now offer customizable media libraries for audio and video files, making it easier for users to access media organized by genre, theme, album, or artist names.