In June, we released Kalotyp, an open-source image editor for Ghost. And it is now the image editor on every Magic Pages site, including Starter plans, which never had an image editor before.
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If you're a Magic Pages customer, there's nothing to set up. If you edit an image inside a post, Kalotyp is what opens.
But why do we need a new editor?
One of the things that draws people to Ghost in the first place, is that it's open-source software you can modify, own, and self-host if you want.
The image editor has been the one piece of the experience that doesn't fit that pattern.
Kalotyp is our attempt to close that gap. It's under the same license as Ghost itself (MIT) and drops into the same interface as its proprietary default editor.
What it does
Feature-wise, the current release covers what you'd reach for in an image editor: crop, rotate, flip, filters, finetune controls, annotate, redact, resize, and frames. It also does automatic EXIF/GPS metadata stripping and format conversion on save − both are things customers have asked about in support over the years, so it felt right to build them in.
Now, Kalotyp is young. It's had a few hundred sites and two and a half months of real use since its first release on 4 June. However, that doesn't mean it's bug free. If you hit something odd, send us a quick message and we'll have a look.
