Photon Snapshot

Image viewer/editor. Built with Python using PySide6 QT and Pillow.

Features

• In window file explorer which allows you to browse and open images directly without having to use the open file dialog.
• Image effects (contrast, brightness, scaling, and more)
• Transform, crop, and resize.
• Apply various overlays (grid, ruler, text)

Building

Build Environment

Photon Snapshot requires Python 3.12 or higher. You'll also require UPX for compressing the executable's size. Download UPX from here.

Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/still-standing88/photon-snapshot.git
cd photon-snapshot

Create a new environment, or install packages globally

python -m venv venv

Then on Windows

venv\scripts\activate

For Linux/Mac

source venv/bin/activate

Then install requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

Building

Before running the command, make sure UPX is on your path variable.

python build.py

For MSI package distribution

powershell .\installer\windows\build-msi.ps1 -SourceDir dist\app.dist -OutputDir dist\ -Version 1.0.0

Todo list

• Implement previous/next image view navigation for images on the same folder.
• Expose more of Pillow's image editing capabilities on the program. This includes color conversions, image overlays, Sharpening/Blurring, and drawing.
• Add a drawing mode, for Canvas.
• Update codebase with QT6 compatible QT Enum classes instead of the old QT5 enums.
• Customize the MSI installer further.