Hi everyone,
Advanced Pixel Editor started from a recurring client request. They wanted to fix a product photo (a bit more contrast, a sharper edge, a crop) and did not want to download it, open Photoshop, re-upload and re-insert it. WordPress's built-in editor only crops, rotates and scales.
The plugin opens from the Media Library (grid, list or attachment screen) and runs everything server-side through ImageMagick, the same library that has been doing professional image processing since 1990.
The free version gives you:
- Sigmoidal contrast and unsharp mask, the same algorithms Photoshop and Lightroom use, with sliders that re-render the preview as you move them
- A draggable before/after comparison slider
- Crop with aspect presets, resize with aspect lock, DPI control, rotate and flip
- Save as a new file, or replace the original with an automatic backup and one-click restore
- Keyboard navigation, ARIA labels and screen reader support; works on touch devices
The Pro add-on (from $29/year for one site, 5 and 20-site plans available) adds brightness, saturation, hue, auto levels, sepia, vignette, blur, noise reduction and emboss, text and image watermarks, background batch processing of many images at once, and up to 8x zoom in the preview. 20% of Pro revenue goes to the ImageMagick project.
Requirement: your host needs the Imagick PHP extension, which most managed WordPress hosts already have.
I'd like to hear which tool you miss most in the WordPress image workflow. Happy to answer questions here.