On 8/27/07, Mark <mark(a)geekhive.net> wrote:
Dschwen wrote:
This already exists. Search for
"MagickStudio" of check
http://magick.net4tv.com/MagickStudio/scripts/MagickStudio.cgi
for an example installation.
As predicted this beats the heck out of the proprietary thing, at least in
terms of features. It's lacking in gloss, but that could be added.
It has more features, but the user interface is crappy - choosing a
"Parameter" of "1.6" then selecting "Contrast-stretch" then
clicking
"enhance"...ugh.
You may think that the GUI is the trivial bit of the job and the image
processing is the important bit, but I see it as being the other way
around. Most of us have powerful image processing software on our
computers. If we're going to bother with an online GUI at all, the
entire point is to make the user experience faster and more pleasant
than downloading the image, processing it, and uploading it again.
Everything you can do with this tool seems to require guesswork to
manually enter a number. Straightening, you have to guess the right
number of degrees, then undo if you get it wrong. I don't even think
there is a way to crop - and if there was, it certainly wouldn't be as
easy as drawing a rectangle.
Would you honestly use this kind of tool? Wouldn't you just download
the image, modify it in GIMP and upload it again?
Steve