We’re working on bringing Naji — the horse behind the name — home to Jacksonville.Bringing Naji home to Jacksonville.Meet Naji

About · one person, one horse

Named after a horse. The horse is real.

Image Horse is one person’s project. It started as a way to crop and compress a photo without handing it to somebody else’s server, and the browser turned out to be capable of far more than that.

Chris Lane Jones and Theo Browne at RenderATL, both wearing conference lanyards, in front of a pink-lit wall.

Builds Image Horse

Chris Lane Jones

I build web software, mostly in React and Next.js, and I still take WordPress work. Image Horse started because I wanted to crop and compress a photo without handing it to somebody else's server, and the browser turned out to be capable of far more than that.

I graduated from the University of North Florida in 2013 after three communications internships, and started out editing video. Building my own site was more interesting than the editing, so I changed careers.

I ran Richmond's WordPress meetup from January 2022 to January 2025, and before that was Digital Director for the Jacksonville Online Marketing Meetup. Eight years in Virginia — Harrisonburg, then Louisa, close to Richmond and closer to the mountains — and in 2026 we moved back to Florida. I still work remotely for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Naji, a chestnut horse in a blue and patterned halter, standing under a tree in a fenced green pasture and looking straight at the camera.

The horse

Naji

Naji — Arabic for "survivor" — is an Arabian horse. He is the only horse of his herd who survived, which is what the name means.

He can be ridden, though he does not make it easy. He still lives in Louisa, Virginia. Becky wants him with us in Jacksonville, so we are working on bringing him down.

He has also worked as a therapy horse: my wife Becky counseled people with him through Heaven's Rays Ministries. A horse notices what a person is carrying before they say it out loud, which turns out to be the whole point.

He is why the editor is named after a horse. A workhorse is a tool that does the job and does not fuss. Image Horse.

The editor is free and needs no account.

It runs on your own machine. Nothing you open is uploaded to edit it.

Open the editor