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title: TOMÉ
created: 2026-08-14 12:33
updated: 2026-08-14 12:33
revision: 1
author: Auriea
summary: "new page: TOMÉ, the little cutting bench"
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[[TROY]]

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 wand has taken the sky out — the cutting mat shows through where the image is now transparent](https://auriea.art/shots/tome-1.jpg)

## 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

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