Enhancing Photo Affix application by adding an image sorting method and basic image editor functions.

in #utopian-io6 years ago

Repository

https://github.com/afollestad/photo-affix

Introduction

Photo Affix is an application that is used to merge two or more images. You can merge images either horizontally or vertically. You can also add background colour and choose image spacing.

Components

My suggestion is on the

  • Application homepage

Proposal

The homepage of PhotoAffix currently have a way to select the pictures and then merge together.

I propose the addition of an

  • Image sorting page this page will show the selected images in a list format. This format will enable users to sort the images in their preferred order. The default and only format is merging images according to the way they are selected. The image sorting page will also have a button to
  • rotate and
  • crop the images

Rotate - This function will allow the rotation of the images to enable better merging
Crop - It will allow unused or unimportant part of an image to be discarded. This crop feature will have a free crop mode and other predefined crop ratios.

This will be explained visually in the mock up section.

Mockups/Examples

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The above image shows how I want the homepage to be modified. You can see the crop symbol and the rotation button. The images can also be dragged to sort according to preferred order.

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You can see in the above image how the crop feature will work.

Benefits

Image Sorting Page - The addition of this page will greatly improve the application. I use a photo Affix every time to combine images. It is an arduous task for me when after selecting many images I discover that the images order are wrong. I have to clear all and re-select the images according to the order I want. With the implementation of this feature that will be a thing of the past. Users can simply sort the images as they wish.
It will save time and inconveniency that may arise from clearing the selected images just to choose the correct order.

Rotate - This is another function that should be present in the application. It will save users the time and stress in downloading external applications just to rotate an image. It will also enable users to modify the images as they wish in order to provide a better output.

Crop- This is another image edit function that any image related application should have. It will help users remove unwanted areas in their image. A user that want to merge a screenshotted photo will want to crop out the unnecessary parts such as the phone menu bars etc. It will be a bad user experience for such user to download another application when it can be easily done in the PhotoAffix app

Conclusion

The application is undergoing constant development and I believe this is the time to implement this features. It will increase usage of the application as users can now perform all the basic functions to provide a great output results.

My GitHub profile

https://github.com/zoneboy

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Hi @zoneboy! Thank you for your contribution.

You made a great post.
If implemented, all ideas will be really useful.
In my opinion, the best idea is Image Sorting Page. Currently, clearing the selection to change the order of the pics is really annoying.

Just to mention something, the way you explained the idea could have been better, and the mockups could have been more detailed. But in general it is a good post.

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