Simp

Simp is a fast and simple GPU-accelerated image manipulation program.

Goals

• Support of as many image formats as possible.
• 60 Hz. Avoid blocking for more than 16ms.
• Flicker free redrawing.
• Smooth resizing.
• Always use GPU-acceleration where possible.
• Desktop OS support.
• Basic image manipulation.

Non Goals

• Powerful image manipulation (I am not making the next photoshop)
• Web/Mobile platform support.

Supported Platforms

| OS | Support | | ------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Windows | Primary development platform and the most well tested. | | Linux | Arch + Kde is semi regularly tested and it always compiles for ubuntu in cli. | | MacOS | MacOS compiles but is not well tested. | | NetBSD | Native package available. |

Supported Codecs

| Format | Decoding | Encoding | | --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------- | | PNG | ✅ | ✅ | | JPEG | ✅ Baseline and progressive | ✅ Baseline | | GIF | ✅ | ✅ | | BMP | ✅ | ✅ | | ICO | ✅ | ✅ | | TIFF | ✅ Baseline(no fax support) + LZW + PackBits | ✅ | | WebP | ✅ Converted to Rgba8 | ✅ Lossless only | | AVIF | 🚧 Only 8-bit (1) | ❌ | | PNM | ✅ PBM, PGM, PPM, standard PAM | ❌ | | DDS | ✅ DXT1, DXT3, DXT5 | ❌ | | TGA | ✅ | ✅ | | farbfeld | ✅ | ✅ | | SVG | ✅ Rastarized at 96 dpi (2) | ❌ | | PSD | ✅ | ❌ | | Raw | ✅ Support from rawloader (3) | ❌ | | HEIF/HEIC | ❌ (4) | ❌ | | OpenEXR | ✅ Rgb32F, Rgba32F (no dwa compression) | ✅ Rgb32F, Rgba32F (no dwa compression) |

1. Building with AVIF support requires the C library dav1d and is therefore not enabled by default.
2. SVGs are rastarized because Simp is primarily a bitmap image editor.
3. Most common cameras are supported but the colors may look weird because the standard curve may not fit all images.
4. HEIF/HEIC is not supported because it is currently very hard to link libheif on windows.

Keybinds

| Action | Input | | -------------- | :------------------- | | Open image | Ctrl + O | | Save as | Ctrl + S | | Reload image | F5 | | New window | Ctrl + N | | Undo | Ctrl + Z | | Redo | Ctrl + Y | | Copy | Ctrl + C | | Paste | Ctrl + V | | Resize | Ctrl + R | | Rotate left | Q | | Rotate right | E | | Zoom in | - or Mousewheel up | | Zoom out | + or Mousewheel down | | Best fit | B | | Largest fit | L | | Crop | Ctrl + X | | Fullscreen | F11 or F | | Delete image | Delete | | 1 - 9 | 100% - 900% Zoom | | Previous image | A or Left arrow | | Next image | D or Right arrow |

System dependencies

System dependencies are only required at compile time.

Linux

shell sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libspeechd-dev libxkbcommon-dev libssl-dev

dav1d

The dav1d library is required to be installed to build with AVIF support.

Installation

Cargo

shell cargo install simp --locked

NetBSD

A pre-compiled binary is available from the official repositories. To install it, simply run: pkgin install simp

Latest from github

shell cargo install --git https://github.com/Kl4rry/simp --locked

The latest build is very likely buggy and unfinished. You can always also just grab the latest binary from actions build artifacts.

Manual

Just download the exe from the releases tab. No actual installation is required.

The name

It's an acronym (S)imple (i)mage (m)anipulation (p)rogram.