Photo Editor

Edit photos online

Photo Editor (2019) was an online tool offered by Саnvа🡵 for simple image editing. It had filters, sliders, and crop, resize, and rotation tools.

Note that it’s distinct from the Саnvа design app. This was more of a standalone tool for quick edits, with an ulterior purpose of marketing the primary Саnvа app.

Update: The standalone app has been decommissioned, and photo editing features are now part of the main app.

In the beginnng, the Photo Editor was a tool made by a third party developer in a proprietary UI framework on top of Angular 1 and Node 5.

This version was very old and tbh a bit difficult to maintain and iterate on. It was also not responsive so mobile users were missing out.

So a redesign was made and the app was rewritten in a more modern stack. The new version looks better, modern, and is responsive.

My part in this redesign was coding the webapp and the welcome page.

I wrote the new app in React🡵 with MobX🡵.

There were a few WebGL and canvas filter algorithms from the old app that I reimplemented. Had to dip my toes into some fragment shaders for the WebGL version.

The backend is a simple server written with Express🡵 and the whole app was deployed on Heroku🡵.

After the launch we saw doubling in signups! 🔥 It was a fun project.