Imagor Studio

Reusable Templates

Save image-processing setups as reusable templates and apply them across other images in your library.

High-Performance Browsing

Review and organize large image libraries with virtual scrolling, folder navigation, drag-and-drop management, and bulk selection.

Layered Image Editing

Build layered image edits, preview the result, and copy the generated transformation URL before shipping it downstream.

Reusable Templates

Store reusable image-processing templates as portable JSON files and apply the same adjustments across your library.

High-Performance Browsing

Review and organize large image libraries with virtual scrolling, folder navigation, drag-and-drop management, and bulk selection.

Quick Start

Get started with Imagor Studio using Docker

Run with your image directory mounted

You can replace ~/Pictures with the path to your preferred directory (e.g., ~/Desktop, ~/MyPhotos, ~/Downloads).

docker run -p 8000:8000 --rm \
  -v $(pwd)/imagor-studio-data:/app/data \
  -v ~/Pictures:/app/gallery \
  -e DATABASE_URL="sqlite:///app/data/imagor-studio.db" \
  shumc/imagor-studio

Open in browser

http://localhost:8000

What this does:

Mounts your image directory
Creates persistent storage for the app database (SQLite)
Redirects to admin setup process on first launch

Ready to dive deeper? Check out Documentation

Documentation

A Complete Image Processing Ecosystem

imagor

Fast, secure image processing server and Go library, using libvips

GitHub Docs

Imagor Studio

Self-hosted image processing with built-in browsing, layered edits, reusable templates, and URL-based transformations.

GitHub Docs

imagorvideo

imagor video thumbnail server in Go and ffmpeg C bindings

GitHub

imagorface

Fast, on-the-fly face detection for imagor using PICO cascade classifier

GitHub

Why Imagor Studio?

We were already serving millions of images, but we needed better tools for reviewing source files, shaping transformations, and keeping image operations close to our own stack. When we looked at alternatives, many pushed us toward hosted platforms or paid tiers before we even had the basics we wanted.

So we built Imagor Studio - open source, self-hosted, and designed for people who want control over image processing, editing workflows, and storage. It builds on years of work behind imagor and libvips-based image tooling. Your support enables continued development.

Self-host when you want to. Stay close to the open-source path. Keep control of your own stack.

High-Performance Image Browsing

Browse large image folders without an indexing step. Point the app at your directory and start reviewing source files immediately.

Image Editing

Build layered edits, preview the result, and copy the generated transformation URL. Your originals stay untouched.

Reusable Templates

Save image-processing setups as templates and apply them to different images. Create once, reuse everywhere in open JSON format.

Multi-Layer Editing

Stack multiple images with independent transformations for overlays, watermarks, and other layered edits.

Drag-and-Drop Management

Upload source files and organize them with drag-and-drop. Multi-select for bulk operations. Keyboard navigation support.

Non-Destructive Editing

Original files remain untouched while transformations are applied dynamically through URL-based image processing.

Universal Storage

Connect local filesystems, S3, MinIO, Cloudflare R2, and other S3-compatible storage for image review and delivery workflows.

Edit History

Undo and redo support with full editing history. URL state persistence for shareable editing sessions.