ImageX hit 10 stars, got a contributor, and shipped 3 new features 🙂 here's what happened

A couple weeks ago I posted about ImageX – a dumb little CLI that lets you edit images without googling “resize image online” for the hundredth time. If you haven’t seen it, the tldr is: pip install imagex && imagex, a menu pops up, pick what you want, done.
No flags to memorize, no syntax to look up – just arrow keys and enter. Everything runs locally on your machine – no uploads, no server ever sees your images, no browser,no ads.

Honestly? Didn’t expect much. But:

• 10 stars on GitHub
• 1 contributor already dropped a PR (Flip feature – thanks! 🙂
• A bunch of feature requests in issues

So I kept building.

What’s new in v0.3.0

Three features, one fix:

Grayscale / B&W – luminosity conversion or threshold-based true black & white. Slider for the threshold so you can dial in exactly how much black you want.

Invert Colors – instant negative. Handles RGBA without destroying alpha.

Flip – mirror horizontally, vertically, or both. (PR from a contributor!)

Plus: version check on startup (tells you when to upgrade), and all operations now preserve EXIF/ICC metadata instead of silently dropping it. Yeah, that was a bug. Fixed.

The code is still stupid simple

NAME = "Invert Colors"
DESCRIPTION = "Invert image colors (negative effect)"

def run(file, output_path, args):
    img = Image.open(file)
    # ... invert logic ...
    img.save(output_path)
    return True

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Links

• GitHub: github.com/kushal1o1/ImageX
• PyPI: pip install -U imagex

PRs welcome. You could write a feature in the time it took to read this.