AllTerrain Photo Editor for OpenStation

WordPress has shipped the same image editor since 2008: rotate, flip, crop, scale. AllTerrain Photo Editor adds everything that was missing. It is a real editor. You can adjust exposure and colour while watching a live histogram, paint with brushes that have shape and softness, select an area and paint only inside it, stack layers, drag a photo in from the Media Library, and type text directly onto the canvas. Adjust

• Exposure, contrast, temperature, tint, saturation, vibrance and hue
• Curves, on RGB and on each channel separately
• Levels, with black point, white point and gamma
• Sharpen, blur, vignette and grain
• A live histogram that follows the slider as you drag it
• Presets, so a look you like can be reused on the next photo

Paint Eighteen tools on a two column rail, grouped the way you would expect:

• Move and transform, with handles that scale, rotate and snap
• Select as a rectangle, an ellipse, a freeform lasso or a polygon
• A magnetic lasso that snaps to the edge you are tracing, so trace roughly round a subject and the outline finds its boundary for you
• Build a selection up: add to it, subtract from it, or keep only the overlap, from the options bar or by holding Shift, Alt or both
• Step a selection back when an addition went the wrong way, with Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+D or the Step back button — which also brings back a selection you dropped
• Magic wand, which selects the region around the colour you click
• Crop, with aspect presets
• Eyedropper, brush, eraser, paint bucket and gradient
• Retouch: blur, sharpen, smudge and heal
• Clone stamp, with an Alt click to set the sample point
• Dodge, burn, desaturate and saturate
• History brush, which paints the original image back
• Shapes, paths and text
• Hand and zoom, plus a quick mask and a full screen mode

Brushes have a size, a shape and a hardness, and the cursor is a ring the real size of the brush against the image, so you are never guessing at how much a stroke will cover. Layers Text, pasted pixels and dropped photos each arrive as their own layer, so you can move one without disturbing the others, reorder them, hide them or throw one away. Undo reaches painted pixels too, not only settings. Drag a photo in Drag an image from the Media Library, from the desktop, or from your computer straight onto the canvas. It lands as a new layer, where you dropped it, scaled to fit. Open a product photo without hunting for it Drag a WooCommerce product onto the AllTerrain Photo Editor icon and its photo opens straight away, skipping the picker. Any post with a picture works the same way, and so does dropping a photo itself. When you save, AllTerrain Photo Editor asks whether the product should start using the edit. Either answer leaves your original where it is: choosing to update writes a new copy and points the product at it, so going back is a matter of pointing it at the old one again. Your originals are never touched Saving always writes a new attachment and records the edit as a recipe: the list of adjustments, not the pixels. Re-opening a photo restores every slider exactly where you left it and renders again from the original. Editing the same image ten times costs nothing in quality, because every render is a first generation one. Fast, because of how it renders Adjustments are composed into a single GPU pass rather than chained one after another. That is not only quicker. It also means the image is quantised once instead of once per adjustment, which is the difference between a clean gradient and visible banding in a sky.

1.1.1

• Improved compatibility with OpenStation image drags from the wallpaper and file windows, including attachment payloads without the older bridge wrapper.
• Stored desktop images can be dropped into the editor as layers. Their Media Library copy is created or reused only when the drop lands.
• Improved Media Library drops when the browser strips attachment data between windows, and prevented covered editor windows from claiming another window's drop.
• Browser image and file drops also work in the standalone admin editor and modal canvas. Improved image URL handling and cleanup when editor windows close.

1.1.0

• With thanks to WP103 (https://www.youtube.com/@wordpress103) for the feedback that drove this release: the text that could not be edited again, the eraser that ignored its opacity, and the saved copy that could not be reopened for editing.
• Text can be edited after it is placed. Click it with the Text tool, double-click it with Transform, or press the T beside it in the Layers panel; the caret comes back over the words with the font and colour they were set in. Emptying the text removes the layer.
• Brush and eraser opacity now applies to the whole stroke, not to every dab. An eraser at 20% takes 20% of what is under it however slowly you drag; it used to reach 100% within a second because overlapping dabs compounded.
• Saved copies open again with their layers. Painted, pasted and dropped layers travel with the save as files of their own, and text layers are drawn again from their words, so re-opening a copy shows the layer stack you left rather than a flattened image. Only a layer too large for the site to accept still bakes in, and the editor says so.
• Layers have an Opacity slider in the Layers panel, for the layer you are working on; a faded layer shows its percentage beside its name.
• Changing the colour, font or weight while typing no longer finishes the text: the options bar restyles the caret live.
• The Brush panel's Retouching and Fill headings are panel subheadings again, holding their controls, instead of full-size shell sections over an empty box.
• Runs as an OpenStation App Framework app on a shell that has the framework, and registers its window directly on one that does not. = 1.0.1
• Clone Stamp: the sample source is now marked on the canvas and follows your brush while painting; holding Alt shows a source-picker cursor.

1.0.0

• First release.
• The photo picker loads as you scroll, instead of waiting for a Load more button.
• The picker says how many images it cannot open, so a library of animated GIFs no longer reads as an empty one.
• Editing from the media picker and pressing Insert now inserts the copy you just saved, not the photograph you started with.
• The photo picker's captions, counts and placeholders follow the editor's theme instead of WordPress's light-page greys, which were close to unreadable on the dark panel.
• Selections can be stepped back — Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+D, or the Step back button — which takes back an addition made in the wrong mode and brings back a selection you dropped.
• Opens with the desktop switched off as well as in a window: an editor page under Media, and an overlay from the Media Library, the media picker and the image block.
• Magic wand and paint bucket rewritten to walk runs rather than pixels — a twenty-megapixel photo answers in a fifth of a second instead of a few seconds.
• The wand traces the holes in a region instead of selecting through them.
• Optional linear-light exposure, where a stop is a doubling of light rather than of a stored value.
• Sixteen bits per channel through the layer composite where the browser allows it.
• Renders on WebGPU where a site asks for it, as well as WebGL.
• Exposure, contrast, temperature, tint, saturation, vibrance and hue, composed into a single GPU pass.
• Curves and levels, baked into one lookup table.
• Sharpen, blur, vignette and grain.
• Live RGB and luma histogram.
• Crop, straighten, rotate and flip, with the canvas independent of the image sitting on it.
• Layers, with reorder, hide and delete.
• Selections as a rectangle, an ellipse, a lasso, a polygon or a magnetic lasso, plus a magic wand.
• The magnetic lasso finds the shortest path along the edges of the photograph itself, taking the gradient on each colour channel rather than on brightness, so it snaps to a boundary between two colours of the same lightness as readily as to a light one against a dark.
• Its anchor points are marked as you trace, hollow where the tool placed one for you and solid where you clicked, so it is always clear how much of the outline has stopped moving.
• Selection modes: new, add, subtract and intersect, from the options bar or with Shift, Alt and Shift+Alt.
• One top bar instead of two, and a third the height: 31 pixels where the chrome used to take about 90.
• The picture no longer flickers while a window is being resized.
• The tool rail and the sidebar meet the top bar, instead of sitting below a strip of background.
• The top bar is the same height for every tool, so switching tools no longer shifts the picture.
• The fields in the top bar sit inside it, instead of hanging out of the bottom and being clipped by its edge.
• The colour palette's swatches are round again, and all six of a row fit the popover rather than the last falling off its edge.
• Dragging a curve point and letting go outside the graph now drops it, instead of leaving it stuck to the pointer.
• Fixed "Edit with AllTerrain Photo Editor" in the media modal doing nothing inside the desktop: the shell was not listening for the request.
• Media → Edit Photos is no longer offered while the desktop is running, where it could only ever lead to a page saying the editor is elsewhere. Open AllTerrain Photo Editor from the dock or its desktop icon.
• Brushes, eraser, paint bucket, gradient, shapes, paths and text typed on the canvas.
• Retouching: blur, sharpen, smudge, heal and clone stamp.
• Dodge, burn, desaturate and saturate.
• History brush, quick mask and full screen.
• Copy and paste that respects the shape you selected rather than its bounding box.
• Drag and drop from the Media Library, the desktop or your computer.
• Undo and redo that reach painted pixels, not only settings.
• Presets.
• Non-destructive saving, with the edit stored as a re-openable recipe.