I’ve been building a Photo Editor (Beta) plugin for Penpot. It’s raster editing directly on an image that’s already on the board — no export/reimport round trip through another app.
What’s in it
Painting tools: brush, eraser, blur brush, clone stamp and a fill bucket — with a selection tool (rectangle, ellipse, freehand lasso, plus add/subtract/intersect) that every one of them respects.
Layers: a real layer stack with visibility, opacity, reordering and renaming. The photo itself is a row in it, so you can put paint in front of it.
History: a full list of steps you can click to jump to, not just Cmd+Z. Nothing is stored as a bitmap, so undo costs nothing.
Framing: crop with aspect presets, 90° rotation, flip, straighten (±45°), and an option to crop outside the image so the export comes back padded with transparency.
Filters: 17 presets plus the individual sliders behind them, and a vignette that follows the crop instead of being baked into the source.
Frames: 18 decorative border styles, some of which cut real transparency into the export (rounded corners, circle, film sprocket holes).
Export: PNG / JPG / WebP at 25–400 % of the cropped region, written back to the shape’s fill.
Yet another fantastic plugin @girafic! So many features and it’s really easy to use.
As someone who loves a photo editor, I found some of the toolbar icons a little confusing as they’re different from the conventions I usually see. Although the tooltips were very explicit and helpful. Now this might just be me, so feel free to ignore my feedback!
Paint with colour: Usually “paintbrush” or “draw” with a paintbrush or pencil icon.
Flood the region under the cursor with colour: Usually “fill” with an open/dripping paint can icon.
Smudge parts of the picture out of focus: Usually “blur” or “soften” (smudge is often used with more of a push effect) with a diffusing circle icon or droplet icon like you’ve used for flooding with colour.
Hey @girafic. I’ve been using your fantastic plugin this morning, thanks again for it!
I have a feature request if that isn’t too cheeky When cropping, it would be really cool to be able to set the width:height ratio. Whether that’s a set of popular preset options (like 16:9, 1:1, 9:16) or being able to choose my own.
Alternatively, providing the image’s new dimensions when cropping could help me calculate it for myself. (Well, in the case of cropping a square anyway!)
Hi @LauraKalbag! Not cheeky at all, and I’m really glad it’s useful.
Good news: the latest version already covers most of this. With the crop tool
selected, the Crop section in the Tools tab has an Aspect ratio menu (Free,
Original, 1:1, 2:1, 3:2, 4:3, 5:4, 16:10, 16:9) and a Portrait switch that
flips it, so 16:9 becomes 9:16. It also shows the frame’s width and height in
pixels, plus the size you’ll get out.
A lot has been added since the first version (26 August):
Your own aspect ratio: type it in, decimals too (2.39 : 1). Typing a width
or height keeps the ratio. Thanks for the idea!
Gradient tool with editable colour stops
Perspective (P) and mesh warp (W) to straighten or bend a layer
The Move tool scales and rotates layers, with handles or exact numbers;
arrow keys nudge
Layer blend modes, and masks (black hides, white reveals)
Layer thumbnails, and drag to reorder layers
Insert pictures as new layers, from your computer or from Penpot
Opens Photoshop files (.psd/.psb) with their layers, plus AVIF and GIF
Start from a blank canvas with size presets (Web, Social, Devices, Print…)
Colour pickers offer the colours from your Penpot file
Export shows the file size before you apply
Zoom in real percentages, with Fit to view
A Clear button for the History list
Fixed: clicking with the brush leaves a dot again (a Chrome update broke it)
Fixed: the Portrait switch no longer shows a stray checkbox
When cropping, it would be really cool to be able to set the width:height ratio. Whether that’s a set of popular preset options (like 16:9, 1:1, 9:16) or being able to choose my own.
