Ayin – Photo Editing Software

Ayin (عَيْن, [ʕajn]), Arabic for "eye", is a free and open-source photo editing software I developed in part of a contest in my first year at FCAI-CU and got 1st place in the solo competition. Ayin is very simplistic compared to big corporate software™ but it has some cool features and gets the job done in terms of functionality implemented. A pre-compiled version for Windows is available in the releases page, but I urge you to compile it yourself and hack your own version of Ayin with your own patches.

Features

• 21+ Filters
• Multiple image tabs
• Undo and redo stack
• Follow device theme

Build on Windows/MinGW-w64

1. Install MSYS2
2. Open MSYS2 UCRT64
3. Install dependencies:

$ pacman -S --needed base-devel mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-toolchain mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-SDL2 mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-freetype

5. Build

$ cd /path/to/ayin/
$ make mode=release
$ ./target/release/ayin.exe

Configure MSYS2 UCRT64 for VSCode

1. Ctrl+Shift+P
2. Preferences: Open User Settings (JSON)
3. Copy this to of your settings.json

{
    // ...
    "terminal.integrated.profiles.windows": {
        "MSYS2 UCRT": {
            "path": "cmd.exe",
            "args": [
                "/c",
                "C:/msys64/msys2_shell.cmd -defterm -here -no-start -ucrt64"
            ]
        }
    }
    // ...
}