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datatype suggestion imageeditor

7/2/2009 2:50:38 PMAvatarWarren BuckleyLocation: Parkstone Avenue, Hadleigh, UKMVP.posts: 1280Karma: 1237

Hello all,
I was just thinking it would be nice to have an image editor datatype, where a client could upload a photo from their digital camera and use a 3rd party such as Aviary or Picnik todo the image editing and for them to send back the edited image.

http://www.picnik.com/info/api
http://aviary.com/blog/posts/announcing-our-api

Aviary and Picnik both have API's but to be honest I dont know where to start.
Any suggestions or offers to help out?

Do you think its a good idea or bad one?

7/2/2009 3:34:18 PMAvatarKenneth SolbergLocation: Helgerudveien 76, GjøvikCore.posts: 194Karma: 270
Comment with ID: 8451

I'm actually waiting for the falcon API (Image Markup) to ship (Even sent them an email this morning to get a date =) - The Image Markup hits the sweet spot imho as the Image Editor (Phoenix) is kinda complex for most users?

7/2/2009 4:26:37 PMAvatarWarren BuckleyLocation: Parkstone Avenue, Hadleigh, UKMVP.posts: 1280Karma: 1237
Comment with ID: 8455

Yeh possibly Phoenix is maybe a little too complicated, but maybe we could create two versions? Simple Image Editor and Advanced Image editor?

What do you think?

7/2/2009 10:28:42 PMAvatarKenneth SolbergLocation: Helgerudveien 76, GjøvikCore.posts: 194Karma: 270
Comment with ID: 8475

Yeah, the API is pretty simple and seems to be more or less the same across all the apps so I guess a PrevalueEditor where you can select what app the current rendercontrol should use would do.

7/2/2009 11:55:59 PMAvatarGerbenLocation: Rotterdam posts: 31Karma: 101
Comment with ID: 8479

Yeah I saw the Picnik application integrated into MailChimp. Works quite nice actually. So it is proven technology, now we only need a datatype!

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