Hacker News with Generative AI: Image Editing

Understanding Generative AI Capabilities in Everyday Image Editing Tasks (arxiv.org)
Generative AI (GenAI) holds significant promise for automating everyday image editing tasks, especially following the recent release of GPT-4o on March 25, 2025.
Generative AI, Image Editing, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision
5 points by taesiri 35 days ago | 1 comments
Gimp 3.0.4 Released (gimp.org)
New Releases, Software, Image Editing
13 points by neustradamus 40 days ago | 0 comments
Pinta - free, open-source program for drawing and image editing (pinta-project.com)
Pinta is a free, open-source program for drawing and image editing.
Open Source, Image Editing, Software, Free Software
13 points by hbarka 43 days ago | 2 comments
Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in preview (googleblog.com)
Based on the enthusiasm from developers, we are excited to announce that Image Generation capabilities are now available in preview with Gemini 2.0 Flash.
Generative AI, Image Editing, Google, Preview Releases
252 points by meetpateltech 51 days ago | 100 comments
Show HN: A pure WebGL image editor with filters, crop and perspective correction (github.com/xdadda)
Online webgl photo editor with effects, filters and cropping
Web Development, WebGL, Image Editing, Open Source
243 points by axelMI 60 days ago | 86 comments
Graphite: Image Editing as a Syntax Tree [video] (youtube.com)
Image Editing, Programming, Syntax Trees, Video
3 points by jarek-foksa 89 days ago | 0 comments
Export Predefined Regions in Krita (github.com/aldanasjuan)
This plugin exports a desired region in the canvas and can optionally resize the export to a new size.
Software, Image Editing, Plugins
28 points by noisycarlos 99 days ago | 5 comments
Show HN: We built an agentic image editor that preserves the original structure (palette.cam)
Show HN, Image Editing, AI, Generative AI
20 points by sakofchit 100 days ago | 13 comments
GIMP 3.0 (gimp.org)
New Releases, Software, Image Editing
1312 points by wicket 102 days ago | 508 comments
Gimp 3.0 Released (gimp.org)
New Releases, Software, Image Editing, Open Source
32 points by pentagrama 102 days ago | 0 comments
Gimp 3.0 Release Notes (gimp.org)
After seven years of active development, we are proud to announce the next major release of GIMP – GIMP 3.0! While the original focus was on updating to a newer GUI library, this release is packed with many new features, enhancements, and usability improvements.
Software, New Releases, Open Source, Image Editing, Design
7 points by Vinnl 102 days ago | 2 comments
GIMP 3.0 Stable Released (phoronix.com)
After some 13 years of writing about GIMP 3.0 development, today is finally the day: GIMP 3.0 has been tagged and is in the process of being released.
New Releases, Software, Image Editing, GIMP
8 points by maverick74 102 days ago | 1 comments
Show HN: I took over Painteresque, a 14 year old Objective-C app and rebuilt it (apple.com)
Painteresque lets you make your photos look like paintings, charcoal drawings, colored pencils, lithographic print, vintage, trippy, retro, portrait, etc.
Software, Mobile Development, Image Editing, Open Source, User Interfaces
117 points by busymom0 118 days ago | 25 comments
Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin (schoenitzer.de)
GIMP 3.0 is almost out, and I'm thrilled. Not only will this version bring new features and improvements, but it finally modernizes the technology stack in two important ways:
Software, GIMP, Image Editing, Programming, New Releases
174 points by nudin 135 days ago | 170 comments
Gimp 3.0 RC3 Released (gimp.org)
We’re excited to share the third release candidate of GIMP 3.0 for what (we hope) is the final round of community testing before the stable version! This release follows the recent GIMP 3 and Beyond talk by Jehan at FOSDEM 2025.
New Releases, Software, Open Source, Image Editing
11 points by voxadam 137 days ago | 3 comments
Show HN: BGNix-100% Free and Privacy Image Background Removal (bgnix.com)
Image Editing, Free Software, Privacy, Show HN
10 points by thinkingjimmy 145 days ago | 9 comments
Stable Flow: Vital Layers for Training-Free Image Editing (omriavrahami.com)
Diffusion models have revolutionized the field of content synthesis and editing. Recent models have replaced the traditional UNet architecture with the Diffusion Transformer (DiT), and employed flow-matching for improved training and sampling. However, they exhibit limited generation diversity. In this work, we leverage this limitation to perform consistent image edits via selective injection of attention features.
Image Editing, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Diffusion Models
12 points by gen-ai 150 days ago | 1 comments
Adobe's new AI tool can edit 10k images in one click (theverge.com)
Adobe is launching new generative AI tools that can automate labor-intensive production tasks like editing large batches of images and translating video presentations.
Adobe, Generative AI, Image Editing, Automation, AI Tools
6 points by skreep 162 days ago | 5 comments
Adobe Lightroom's AI Remove feature added a Bitcoin to bird in flight photo (bsky.app)
Adobe Lightroom, AI, Photography, Image Editing, Cryptocurrency
198 points by danso 167 days ago | 105 comments
Gimp 3.0 RC2 Released (gimp.org)
New Releases, Software, Image Editing
8 points by pentagrama 182 days ago | 1 comments
Create your own jigsaw puzzle from any image (puzzlezilla.com)
On this page, you can create a puzzle from any photo from the internet or your device. If you encounter difficulties, use the article on how to create your own puzzle
Creative Projects, Image Editing, Puzzles
30 points by bookofjoe 198 days ago | 18 comments
GIMP 3.0 is on the way (lwn.net)
The long-awaited release of the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) 3.0 is on the way, marking the first major update since version 2.10 was released in April 2018. It now features a GTK 3 user interface and GIMP 3.0 introduces significant changes to the core platform and plugins. This release also brings performance and usability improvements, as well as more compatibility with Wayland and complex input sources.
Software, New Releases, Open Source, Image Editing, GTK
263 points by chmaynard 210 days ago | 197 comments
Perhaps acquiring Pixelmator is about competing with Creative Cloud (daringfireball.net)
Perhaps Acquiring Pixelmator Is Not About Competing With Photoshop and Lightroom, Per Se, but the Adobe Creative Cloud Bundle
Adobe, Image Editing, Software, Business, Acquisition
98 points by robenkleene 214 days ago | 71 comments
Show HN: MagicQuill – An Intelligent Interactive Image Editing System (magicquill.art)
Image Editing, Artificial Intelligence, Show HN, Creative Projects
4 points by brky 224 days ago | 2 comments
Open-source Photoshop alternative GIMP enters RC testing after 20 yrs (tomshardware.com)
Open Source, Image Editing, Software, GIMP
10 points by gniting 228 days ago | 0 comments
Gimp 3.0 RC1 Released for Testing (phoronix.com)
The long elusive GIMP 3.0 image editor that is a free software alternative to Adobe Photoshop has finally reached the release candidate phase of development.
Image Editing, Software, Open Source, New Releases, GIMP
8 points by mikece 234 days ago | 2 comments
Shaderblocks: Block-based image editing (thejenkinscomic.net)
Image Editing, Software, Creative Tools
133 points by rahimnathwani 236 days ago | 43 comments
Apple Is Acquiring Pixelmator (theverge.com)
Apple has agreed to acquire Pixelmator, a popular image editing app available on Mac and iOS.
Apple, Acquisitions, Image Editing, Software, Mobile Apps
5 points by presbyterian 238 days ago | 1 comments
Apple acquires Pixelmator (pixelmator.com)
Today we have some important news to share: the Pixelmator Team plans to join Apple.
Apple, Acquisitions, Image Editing, Software
1184 points by dm 238 days ago | 576 comments
Apple is 'concerned' about AI turning real photos into 'fantasy' (theverge.com)
The upcoming release of Apple Intelligence has spurred the iPhone maker’s own “what is a photo?” moment. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Apple software chief Craig Federighi said the company is aiming to provide AI-powered image editing tools that preserve photo authenticity.
Artificial Intelligence, Image Editing, Technology, Apple
21 points by baal80spam 247 days ago | 11 comments