On 8/27/07, Mark mark@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