# \[ANN\] psitsNOT now available as a Rails Engine

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**Created:** [June 2, 2006, 5:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-psitsnot-now-available-as-a-rails-engine/62312 "2006-06-02T17:18:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 5:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-psitsnot-now-available-as-a-rails-engine/62312/1 "2006-06-02T17:18:16Z")

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psitsNOT (“Photoshop it’s NOT!”) is an AJAX powered image editor for  
Rails. Although it doesn’t pretend to be feature-rich, psitsNOT lets you  
rotate and crop; adjust brightness, contrast, and color balance; then  
reduce grain, enhance color contrast, sharpen, and set the final size of  
an image. It does a great job at enhancing digital photos for display on  
the web.

A demo site is online at [http://psitsnot.alevans.com](http://psitsnot.alevans.com)

(You’ll need an OpenID URL to log in and edit photos! See the links on  
the login page.)

psitsNOT is now available as a Rails Engine! Not only that, but when its  
name gets Railsified, it comes out to p\_sitsnot\_engine! 🙂

Following the instructions in the README, you can build a basic  
image-editing site in 15-30 minutes. After that, like everything else in  
Rails, you can “cut to fit, paint to match”.

You can get the PSitsnotEngine (or p\_sitsnot\_engine) from  
[http://svn.openprofile.net/plugins/p\_sitsnot\_engine](http://svn.openprofile.net/plugins/p_sitsnot_engine)

NOTE!! psitsNOT requires RMagick! Timothy H., the writer of RMagick,  
strongly advises that you update your installation to at least version  
1.11.1. psitsNOT works reliably with version 1.10.1, but a memory leak  
could occur under certain unusual circumstances.

–Al Evans