Observed arrival · 2026-11-15
Deep Brush: painting with a photo’s surface
A browser-based photo editor uses estimated depth and surface normals to make brush strokes, text, and lighting effects respond to a photograph’s geometry.
- For
- Photo editors exploring geometry-aware painting
- Worth noticing
- Images are edited at up to 1280 px; the site says generating depth may require an internet download and take a minute.
Field notes
The controls separate paint and artwork from a lighting mask, with the original image preserved as its own layer. Users can adjust brush properties such as size, hardness, opacity, and surface relief, and masking can reject pixels relative to the start of a stroke. The page identifies Depth Anything V2 Small, used through Transformers.js, and notes that normals are derived from depth maps; it also distinguishes the car sample’s imagegen depth from the other samples.
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