I’ve been doing some stuff on Blogging Tools on and off the last few weeks, mainly around images and image management. They’re not super exciting in their own right so I’ll keep them brief.
The first major change was adding the ability to save images from the processor on the server. Previously if you wanted to compose something using multiple images in the Image Tool app, you’d had to do your processing on each image (such as apply a shadow), download it, then change the tool (like arrange images in a grid) and upload the images again. This was fine, but it resulted in all these orphaned images being dumped in the Downloads folder. So the Download button has been replaced with a Save, which will upload the processed image to the server.
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There is also a new Saved Images app which allowed one to browse the saved image, file them into categories, and download them.
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Saved images can be recalled from the processor by using a new picker. This replaced the Load image by URL option, which I never really used (although I may add it back within the Saved Image app).
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Those with keen eyes may notice the quality of the saved images in the screenshots above. That’s because the other change I made was to integrate calls to an image generator. There was no reason for doing this other than trying out the API, and I haven’t really used it for anything other than make test images. The API I’m using is Flux 1 provided by together.ai, but there’s also a non-functional version of Gemini’s API too (that API’s region locked and is not available in Germany, which is where Blogging Tools is running).
Generating an image would add it directly into a Saved Image, which would allow it to be downloaded or opened in the Image Tool app (could be useful for memes).
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