AI photo editing: build on the editors we have instead of replacing them
People keep refining prompts that break on the next model, or letting AI rebuild an editor in a sandbox every time. Why not let AI use the photo editors we already have?
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Release notes and write-ups.
What changed in each release, and longer pieces on how Editmamei works and what an edit costs.
Not every MCP server fits in 25 tools
The usual advice is to keep an MCP server under 25 tools. Editmamei has 83 Photoshop tools, so I measured how often the AI sends a bad call across 61,977 real tool calls.
Now available: Editmamei 1.9.0
A GIMP edit can now leave as a layered PSD, ready to finish in Photoshop. Plus outlines and glows, text that wraps and sizes itself to a box, and what the GIMP beta picked up in 1.7.0 and 1.8.0.
Introducing Editmamei Connect
Editmamei now has a cloud option alongside the desktop app. Add Editmamei Connect to Claude and edit photos in the browser or on your phone, with nothing to install.
Now available: Editmamei 1.6.0
Editmamei can now edit in GIMP 3.2, in beta. GIMP runs in the background, and every adjustment stays a live filter in the .xcf you open afterwards.
Now available: Editmamei 1.5.0
Raw files can be developed before Photoshop opens them, which reaches the leveling, perspective and lens corrections a filter cannot, and raw can now open straight to 16 bit.
What an edit costs
Editmamei ships no model of its own, so every edit spends tokens from whatever AI you connect to it. Here is what one photo costs, what changes when you carry a template across a whole shoot, and what to do about it before you install.
Editing the whole shoot
Templates and batch processing bring one considered edit to an entire shoot, holding the look consistent across every frame while cutting the time and the tokens it takes to get there.
Now available: Editmamei 1.2.0
A folder of photos can be cropped, resized and exported in one pass, plus fixes for accented layer names and a thirty-second wait that shouldn't have been there.
Now available: Editmamei 1.1.0
Smart Filters stay editable after they are applied, a clipped layer can be unclipped, and several near-identical tools are now one each.
Introducing Editmamei
The story behind Editmamei, and why photo editing needed AI that assists the craft instead of replacing it.