cristeigabriel / speechbubbler

Add speech bubbles to images.

Speechbubbler

In meme culture, speech bubbling "is the term given to a wide range of exploitable reaction images that have half of a speech bubble added to them [...]".

This project aims to automate speech bubbling into a simple command, whilst also supporting conversion between formats.

How to use

You may run the program through the command npm run start or node index.js and then provide 2 or 3 arguments, respectively:

• Input file (extension png/jpg/bmp)
• Output file (extension png/jpg/bmp)
• Bubble [height] percentage (default: 0.3)

Examples

Inputting static/in.jpg, with default bubbling percentage, we can get, respectively: static/out.png, static/out.jpg, static/out.bmp.

License

ISC license, as it appears to be the most common in npm packages, but if this prevents anyone from modifying or redistributing this piece of code, I will change it per request.

speechbubbler's Issues

doesn't work

you blow

Further image format support

Should look into supporting more formats, especially GIF which could be a common scenario for such a library considering the context.

Such would require special-casing image data reading for gif, forking the library we use for such currently, or eventually maybe even getting fully rid of the library? I'm thinking the second sounds best and JavaScript could support it really, really well.

This will also require wrapping data manipulation to take the matrix to work over as an argument so we can iterate every frame of a GIF.