Crop
Upload an image, drag to reposition, scroll to zoom, then crop and download. Everything runs in your browser , no uploads, no servers.
But why?
I often have to crop something, thats why this is here.
Photopea is a great tool, but opening a Photoshop clone just to crop something seems like overkill. I also usually need to crop something to a specific size, and this tool allows me to do that with the best UX I could imagine.
I also wanted to test out Claude Code and running a few agents in parallel.
The sad story of Croppic
This is a recreation of a jQuery plugin called Croppic. Here`s the story:
Over ten years ago, I wrote and published a little jQuery plugin i built while working on a project. It was an image cropping tool , nothing revolutionary, but it worked well and I was proud of it. I published it, put it out there, and to my genuine surprise, it got featured in JavaScript Weekly by Cooper Press (if memory serves). The GitHub stars started rolling in. People were actually using my thing. It felt great.
Then, as life tends to do, everything happened at once. My day job hit a rough patch, I picked up a side gig to keep the lights on, and suddenly Croppic needed more attention than I could give it. GitHub issues piled up. I felt guilty about every unanswered ticket, every unmerged PR. You know the feeling , that special kind of open-source guilt where strangers on the internet are politely disappointed in you.
Right around that time, a guy from Sconsult (Steinlin Consulting) reached out. He wanted to help maintain the repo. I thought , fantastic, exactly what I need. So I said sure, welcome aboard. Then he asked to move the repo to his git, so he could manage things more effectively. I thought ,well, that makes sense, why not. He has been doing a good job answering people and even added some improvements to the code. So I handed the repo over to him.
I asked for attribution, and he said sure, no problem.
And then he kicked me out of the project.. No attribution, no credit, no nothing.
Yes, really. I got booted from the project I built from scratch. A masterclass in "ask nicely, then change the locks."
Still, if you go to croppic.net today and hover over his logo in the footer, you'll still see my Studio42 robot peek through. And on GitHub, I'm still the author of over 90% of the code.
So there it is. A little open-source fairy tale with a plot twist. Just a lesson learned and a story worth telling. Let it go with the wind.