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24 alternatives to A little side project, a watercolor art generator
Hi HN - this is a little side project I threw together. Some implementation details: image processing is all done with headless GIMP (running inside a Docker container) through its built-in Python API. It's _very_ slow (about 50 seconds/image), and currently it processes exactly one image at a time. The website is built with NextJS; payments are processed by Stripe. I've had the best results with pictures of houses, although certain photos of people or nature can look neat, too. (For example: https://brushify.art/s/ruYmQWk, original photo from…
A watercolor art generator that converts photographs into watercolor-style images using headless GIMP for image processing. The tool works best with photos of houses or subjects with clear margins, taking about 50… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A little side project, a watercolor art generator launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Demo of in-browser Fast Neural Style Transfer with deeplearn.js library - reiinakano/fast-style-transfer-deeplearnjs
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Open Graph & Twitter image templates for Next.js
2024 · ogimage.org · its alternatives →
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Create your own art with amazing speed and flexibility
2021 · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I want to show my new open-source project ArtistAssistApp. ArtistAssistApp - the web app to paint better with ease. Tools for realistic color mixing based on real paints, tonal value drawing, simplified sketching, and more. Import your own photos, select any desired color directly from the image, and learn how to mix it with your paints. The web app provides a step-by-step guide on how to precisely mix that color using your own paints using atomic or optical mixing. Atomic mixing is the physical mixing of colors together, while optical mixing is the result of placing a transparent…
2023 · artistassistapp.com · its alternatives →
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Generates killer product images, without a photo studio
2023 · photoroom.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! We're Ben and Izak, founders of Repaint (YC S23). Repaint is like Figma, but for creating real websites. It has panning, zooming, and dragging elements around. The settings closely follow html/css. We think an open canvas is a big improvement over other website builders. Everything is easier: styling, consistency, responsiveness… But making it work was hard! We thought HN would appreciate the tech behind it: - A custom WebGL rendering engine (w/text, shadows, blurs, gradients, & opacity groups) - A partial implementation of the css spec - A custom text editor & text shaper…
2024 · repaint.com · its alternatives →
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I'm excited to share my indie product, https://drawing.pics In this post, I'll share all the technical details behind it. So, what exactly is DrawingPics? It's an image-to-image and sketch-to-image generator that runs in a whiteboard, allowing you to draw your draft directly on the canvas and easily generate the desired image. How does it work from a technical perspective? TLDR: Miniconda + Diffusers + Electron + Excalidraw One of the most important aspects of creating this tool was finding a stable diffusion locally inference solution. There are many solutions available, such as…
2024 · drawing.pics · its alternatives →
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Free to use online neural network photo to painting generator.
2015 · instapainting.com · its alternatives →
- 10MN
2011 · colorapi.com · its alternatives →
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PaintSnap▲74Photo to painting, generated one brush stroke at a time
2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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We hooked up our robotic painter to Twitch.tv so you can see it, control it, and paint with it.
2015 · instapainting.com · its alternatives →
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Hi all, This is a generative art project I worked on over the past year or so consisting of about 100 little artworks generated using P5.js. I have an overview and technical write up here: https://dannyking.uk/artwork/colororbs You can play with my interactive demo and make your own here: https://dannyking.uk/artwork/colororbs/designer And the gallery is here: https://dannyking.uk/artwork/colororbs/gallery This project came about after reading a HN post about a year ago…
2022 · dannyking.uk · its alternatives →
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This is a simple background image generator.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · colormoo.com · its alternatives →
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Currently features the sky, the ground, and a tree. Happy little clouds are in progress.
2012 · ngokevin.github.com · its alternatives →
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HDRainbow▲109Generate an online color palette from an image
2017 · hdrainbow.com · its alternatives →
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I was fascinated by this [0] and this video [1]. After many struggles, I finally built this app that traces images using circles similar to what these videos had shown. The most challenging part (to me) is to find a way to convert images to vector lines. I had tried Potrace, but its output is not suitable for my use case: too many small elements share the same border. Potrace's goal is to represent the original image faithfully using vector lines. But I want to trace the image edges. After searching and trying some Potrace alternatives in vain, I finally found my keyword. Surprisingly (to…
2022 · phqb.github.io · its alternatives →
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Painterly is an application that "paints" input images stroke by stroke to produce digital paintings. GenAI is not used in any part of the production pipeline. There is a free demo available under Releases on the GitHub repo. Let me know what you think!
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Super fast color palette generator based on selected theme
2022 · colourpalettegenerator.com · its alternatives →
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I've been working on a CSS Sprite generator for a couple of weeks in my spare time. It uses HTML Canvas and JavaScript FileReader to open local images without any zipping or uploads, and tries to make the CSS generation as easy as possible. I made it because it is a tool that I wanted to have, and I am hoping to get some feedback from others now that it is functional. http://instantsprite.com
2010 · instantsprite.com · its alternatives →
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Fast image IO and transformations. Contribute to RaphaelJ/friday development by creating an account on GitHub.
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey there Some time ago I built a site that generates AI pictures in a style of GitHub logo (https://octoart.vercel.app/). It's completely free, and even official GitHub accounts in Twitter and Instagram (yes turns out they have Instagram) posted about it. It was fun. So I thought it would be cool to build an app that works with any logo, so people can generate nice branded pictures with their logo. I went on to build https://logopictureai.com/. It's build with Next.js, Replicate API and Supabase. It's a very early version, I built it in a weekend. It works like…
2023 · logopictureai.com · its alternatives →
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Arbitrary style transfer using TensorFlow.js. Contribute to reiinakano/arbitrary-image-stylization-tfjs development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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