Re: [Ids-devel] new feature

[Patrick D. <pa...@va...>]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Caleb Epstein wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 09:48:12PM -0500, John Moose wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone have any suggextions on implementing image and album
> > hitcounters? I'm planning to work on that next.
> 
> 	I can't think of anything more useless than hit counters on
> 	web pages.  Why would anyone want these?

Well, it is nice to see usage stats on the site, but this can be
accomplished with other packages.  Page counters themselves are pretty
tacky though.  I thought those went out of style in the 90's..  (:

> 	Personally, I'd like to see some additional ImageMagick
> 	functionality available from the admin front end, specifically
> 	being able to brighten or darken photos (I guess this is
> 	changing the gamma), cropping (I suspect this will be hard to
> 	implement -- how do you indicate the crop marks?) and maybe
> 	more.

Gamma correction would be very nice.  I have a problem where some of my
PowerShot 10 photos look fine on my monitor at work, but terrible on my
monitor at home (too dark).  Cropping wouldn't actually be all that
difficult either, you just need to put the image into an image map in the
cgi form, and track where a person clicks on the image (potentially even
drawing a box on the image with the two points).

--Patrick.