Bitgrain
Design studio lighter than Figma & more flexible than Canva
436 followers
Design studio lighter than Figma & more flexible than Canva
436 followers
The first Beta version of Bitgrain & Bitgrain Studio is here! Most design tools feel the same. This one doesn’t. Bitgrain started with dithering, but now it’s a full template-based editor where you can create textured, standout visuals in minutes. Less clutter than Figma. More freedom than Canva.
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Hey!!
I’m Diptanshu, the maker of Bitgrain.
This started as a dithering tool and somehow turned into a full image editor.
The idea was simple: make something that feels lighter than Figma but more flexible than Canva.
You can pick a template, tweak it, play with grain and textures, and export something that doesn’t look generic.
Still a work in progress in early stages, so I’d really appreciate any feedback.
What would you want this tool to do?
@diptanshu_mahish Interesting, would love to see how I can best use this for building my personal brand
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@riya_mandot Sure go ahead it, and let me know how it helps you and how I can improve it :)
the dithering origin story is actually cool — some of the best tools start as one weird specific thing and grow from there. grained/textured visuals are having a real moment right now and most design tools make it weirdly hard to do.
can you bring in your own assets or is it mostly template-based for now?
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@ahmadhajj yes you can surely bring in your own templates, or assets like images and fonts and other stuff, templates are json files so you can technically make them too, will make more provision to add templates in easier ways ahead!
Looks great! Any possibility to work on motion files?
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@jacinto_salz yes its on the way and in testing, the next release is going to be for the people doing motion graphics!
@jacinto_salz @diptanshu_mahish Since motion files are on the way, are you looking at implementing grain/texture that evolves per-frame, or a static overlay? That’s the "holy grail" for us film types!
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@jacinto_salz @conleec both, i would say, later being already done, the frame by frame one is still in process, it gives much better results, It's as of now like dithering applied to each frame, but what im kinda fixing now is managing that compute inside a browser!
@jacinto_salz @diptanshu_mahish Managing that compute in the browser is the real uphill climb, Diptanshu. Doing per-frame dithering without turning the user's laptop into a space heater is a massive engineering feat. In my 30 years in post-production, we used to have dedicated render farms for that level of grain control. Seeing you tackle it in a browser window is genuinely impressive.
I am really looking forward to seeing that per-frame grain in action. It is the difference between something looking like a digital filter and something looking like true cinema. Success with the optimization!
Can it design website interfaces? In the demo it looked more like advertising design, as I understood.
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@natalia_iankovych Bitgrain was not exactly built to be a tool to design open ended interfaces, rather more focused on the digital content for various platform with a huge variety of ideas to choose from, but well, if the demand is in that side, Bitgrain might as well take a leap in that direction too!
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Loved the fact that everything happens on my own device, Results feel instantaneous. I have been experimenting with dithering for quite some time, and I think this seems to be the perfect tool for the stuff. The Studio seems a cherry on top, It needs more improvements and features though, but love the idea! All the best!
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@deepak_singh09 Thank you ! would surely push many more new features in the studio part!
Looks good, but the text on tools is so small on my 1440p:
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@yodalr ah, would surely fix on that in the next release asap! Thanks for pointing it out . Do let me know how the tool felt !
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@lakshminath_dondeti nah, the entire point of this project, and in fact those who are using the product rn, are kinda fed up with AI generated images, Yes of course they look perfect, but that too much perfectness is what drives people to non AI solutions like this, cz that makes them so easily identifiable : )
For instance when the Ghibli trend that came, it used to generate soo good imagery, but still, seeing so much of it has made people to "kinda not like it much". I am kinda seeing the same trend with website designs too