Tools I Built For
My Own Needs
I'm a software engineer and photographer. When I can't find a tool that works the way I want, I build my own. These are the ones that turned out well enough to share.
I'm a software engineer and photographer. When I can't find a tool that works the way I want, I build my own. These are the ones that turned out well enough to share.
PixelOps is just me. I write software for a living and take photos when the weather plays along, and everything here started as a fix for something that annoyed me in my own workflow. No company, no roadmap, no growth targets — if a tool exists, it's because I needed it myself.
I rely on these tools myself, so problems get noticed and fixed quickly.
Pay once for downloads. The only subscription is the weather service, because it costs money to run every day.
No analytics, no tracking, no cookies. What you do with these tools is your business.
Three so far, all born out of photography problems. More will follow whenever something else annoys me enough.
I'm a photographer who kept missing perfect conditions because I can't watch forecasts all day. This checks the weather every morning and tells me when the conditions I care about are coming - clear skies at a particular beach at sunset, or fog rolling in at my favorite viewpoint. Turns out it's useful for way more than photography.
I wanted copies of my photos that will still open in 20 years, whatever happens to Adobe or my old cameras' RAW formats. Lightroom's own export loses your folder structure and struggles with big libraries, so I built a plugin that handles both. Free for 14 days, then a one-time license - no subscription.
I have lots of photos from before my current rating system that stay hidden because I don't have the time to sort through them. Gem Finder runs an AI aesthetic model directly on your machine — no cloud, no subscription — and scores every photo in your Lightroom library so the best ones surface automatically. One-time license, no subscription.
A lot of software now feels designed to extract a monthly fee rather than solve a problem. Subscriptions for things that don't need them, dark patterns, features nobody asked for. I didn't want to add to that pile.
What You Can Expect:
None of this is trying to change the world. It's small software that does what it says, sold the way I wish more software was sold. If something doesn't work, or you think one of these tools should do something it doesn't, email me — I read everything.