TOMÉ
TOMÉ (τομή, "a cut, a section") — the little cutting bench: a single-file image prep tool for the small edits a downloaded or captured image needs before it becomes a METOPE stamp, a DISEGNO collage piece, or a KINEMA frame. Take any image; give back a clean transparent PNG. One less reason to open Photoshop.
The whole viewport is a self-healing cutting mat, gridded edge to edge. The grid is drawn in image space — its lines are real measurements of the image, in px, cm, or mm — and transparent pixels show the mat straight through: no checkerboard anywhere.
The tools on the rail
- Wand — tap a colour to make it transparent; connected (only the touching blob) or global (everywhere in the image).
- Lasso — draw a loop; keep the inside or cut it away.
- Erase / Restore — brush pixels away to transparent; brush the original back where you took too much.
- Crop and Trim — a dragged rectangle, or trim straight to the content's bounding box.
- Rotate & flip — swing the sheet to any angle with a finger, judged level against the mat grid; 90° turns and mirrors.
- Adjust — levels and colour balance, previewed live, committed on apply.
- Lines — make ragged line art solid and uniform: despeckle, thin to the centreline, infer the breaks, re-grow every stroke to one width.
- B&W — grayscale, custom channel mix, or hard 1-bit for stamp masks.
- AI — background removal and upscale (fal.ai).
Nothing destructive happens until you apply; previews are computed to the side, and undo keeps the last dozen states.
The bench next door
The kolla → button sends the current cut straight to KOLLA, the paste-up table, as a new layer — and KOLLA's ← tomé button sends its flattened sheet back here to be cut. Two benches, one workshop, one click apart.
Lives in TROY/TOME (tome.html, port 8782), deployed at https://auriea.art/tome.html