Re: [Ids-devel] new feature

[Daryl S. <dw...@mi...>]

Depends on what you feel the goal of IDS is.  I think
it is to put your pictures on the web for others to view.  
I want others to view my pictures.  Perhaps
we should focus on features that make the viewing
experience the best.  Of course certain admin
features are desireable... but if I can get more
people to enjoy viewing the pictures, I will
manually handle some of the admin tasks.... dressing
them up and cropping them.

As far as picture color correction... I have
found Photoshop's Ctrl-Shft-L feature to work 
98% of the time.  Snow pictures... gray to white,
dark to bright.

The "Normalize" feature of the Gimp and ImageMagick
do this pretty well too.  It would be cake to
throw the ImageMagick normalize into the admin page.
Maybe a few of the other auto level features. But 
should it be part of the IDS admin section?  

Daryl

Patrick Devine wrote:
> 
> 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.