What features do IMG.LY SDKs offer?

Our IMG.LY SDKs provide a wide range of powerful and intuitive features to help you build impressive, professional-grade applications. Here’s an overview of what each SDK offers:

CreativeEditor SDK (CE.SDK)

The CreativeEditor SDK allows for seamless photo and video editing, with features tailored to creative workflows and customisable user experiences.

Key features include:

  • Photo editing tools: adjustments, brushes, filters, focus, background removal tool and more.
  • Customisable exports: Supports JPEG, PNG, H.264, MP4, and PDF up to 4K resolution.
  • Headless mode: Available for integration with marketing automation, asset libraries, or templating (subject to license file).

💡 Use case: CE.SDK integrates smoothly into your workflow, embedding creative editing into your app or product. Fore more, visit our demos: https://img.ly/showcases/cesdk

PhotoEditor SDK (PE.SDK)

The PhotoEditor SDK provides advanced tools for photo editing and manipulation, offering an intuitive and customisable user experience. Available features:

Adjustments Adjustments fine-tune your material. That includes essential operations like Brightness and Contrast, sophisticated options like Gamma, and more.
Brush The brush engine is optimized for touch screen interaction – it supports different brush strokes that are customizable in width, hardness, and color.
Filters The Filter library contains over 60 categorized filters covering state-of-the-art style and mood settings.
Focus The Focus tool adds a radial, mirrored, linear or gaussian blur to images to create depth and emphasis on an area.
Frames The Frame tool provides a library of static and dynamic frame assets for any ratio.
Overlays Users can create textured paper looks or lens flare lighting effects by using materials and applying blending modes.
Stickers We ship a categorized sticker library that is optimized for user exploration and contains emoticons and shapes to get started.
Text The text feature allows quick addition of text, including alteration of font size, color, background, and line spacing.
Text Design The text design tool marries input text with typography, creating automated and modern lettering designs.
Transform The transform capability includes cropping, flipping, and rotation operations. Our SDKs provide popular preset ratios and allow the creation of unique crop ratios.

💡 Use case: PE.SDK is ideal for applications focused on photo enhancement and creativity.


VideoEditor SDK (VE.SDK)

The VideoEditor SDK extends photo editing capabilities to video content, making it easy to create, edit, and polish professional videos. Available features:

Adjustments Adjustments fine-tune your material. That includes essential operations like Brightness and Contrast, sophisticated options like Gamma, and more.
Brush The brush engine is optimized for touch screen interaction – it supports different brush strokes that are customizable in width, hardness, and color.
Filters The Filter library contains over 60 categorized filters covering state-of-the-art style and mood settings.
Focus The Focus tool adds a radial, mirrored, linear or gaussian blur to images to create depth and emphasis on an area.
Frames The Frame tool provides a library of static and dynamic frame assets for any ratio.
Overlays Users can create textured paper looks or lens flare lighting effects by using materials and applying blending modes.
Stickers We ship a categorized sticker library that is optimized for user exploration and contains emoticons and shapes to get started.
Text The text feature allows quick addition of text, including alteration of font size, color, background, and line spacing.
Text Design The text design tool marries input text with typography, creating automated and modern lettering designs.
Transform The transform capability includes cropping, flipping, and rotation operations. Our SDKs provide popular preset ratios and allow the creation of unique crop ratios.
Audio Editing Add, mix or replace audio sequences accompanying your videos.
Trimming The Trim tool allows users to shorten the length of a video, giving them the option to modify the start and end time.
Video Composition Pick, edit and merge several video clips into a single visual sequence.
Video Library Offer pre-defined and editable content libraries for videos and audio files.

💡 Use case: VE.SDK is perfect for applications that need advanced video editing and composition tools.

Continuous Innovation

At IMG.LY, we’re always working to expand and improve our SDKs to exceed your expectations.

Got a bold idea for a new feature? We’d love to hear from you! Submit a feature request and let’s build something incredible together.