An Image Processing Component by Aurigma Inc.

PhotoEditor™ allows anyone regardless of their computer skills to edit a photo online easily - rotate it, crop it, remove red eye effect, apply most common artistic effects and frame it - fast, easily and never leaving the website. It does not even require anything other than a regular browser, which makes it still simpler for any user.

PhotoEditor™ is especially beneficial for companies that provide online photo printing services and online photo albums and galleries. With PhotoEditor™, you get everything you need to edit your photos before posting them or having them printed.

Starting from most important and commonly applied corrections such as red eye removal, color adjustment and cropping, on to more creative modifications such as changing tints, applying artistic effects and framing, PhotoEditor™ has all it takes to completely polish up a photo.

All of the functionality it wrapped up in a sleek and easy-to-use interface and works entirely over the Web. And what's more - it is pure HTML/JavaScript (AJAX), which eliminates all the need for any additional components - Flash, ActiveX or Java - to be installed on the client's computer. It is also accessible to users on different browsers, including Safari (on Mac).

Features

Editor Features
PhotoEditor™ offers such most common photo editing options as:
- Crop
- With fixed aspect ratios (4''x6'', 5''x7'', etc).
- With quality meter (i.e. warns the user if the image will be too small after being cropped).
- Red eye removal
- Automatic mode (based on the face selection).
- Manual mode.
- Rotation and flipping
- 90 degrees clockwise.
- 90 degrees counter-clockwise.
- Flip horizontally.
- Flip vertically.
- Color and tone adjustment
- Automatic fix.
- Brightness.
- Contrast.
- Saturation.

In addition, a number of artistic fun features are available, namely:
- Tinting images
- Sepia.
- Black&White.
- Red.
- Green.
- Blue.
- Adding borders
- Simple borders, such as white or black frame, lines, etc.
- Artistic borders, such as sprayed borders, page curl, shadow, glow, translucent frame, etc.
- Applying artistic effects
- Solarize.
- Grain.
- Posterize.
- Emboss.
- Swirl.

After the user edits the image, they can:
- Save the result as a new image.
- Overwrite the result.
- Revert the image to the original.

User Interface
PhotoEditor™ user interface is written totally using dynamic HTML and JavaScript and it utilizes cutting-edge AJAX technology. It means that:
- Neither ActiveX controls nor Java applets should be installed.
- Flash plugin is not required.
- PhotoEditor™ will be accessible for all users who uses most wide-spread browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari.

PhotoEditor™ was specially designed to be user-friendly.
- It is easy-to-use even to unexperienced users.
- It is optimized for web, and that is why it works fast even for modem users.
- No roundtrips when updating the image.

Programming Interface
PhotoEditor™ exposes the following benefits from the programmer's point of view:
- Straightforward installation and integration. Just several simple steps are required to get it working. You can easily define what image to load and how to save the edited result.
- Customizable look-and-feel. It is easy to customize PhotoEditor™ look-and-feel to conform your existing web site.
- Easy to localize. All text string are stored in a separate XML file. So it is extremely easy to create your own translation of the user interface.
- The source code is included. Although typically it is not necessary to modify the source code for most common tasks (like look-and-feel customization, localization, loading/saving edited images, etc), the source code is great to examine how it works "under the hood". And of course, the source code allows you to make serious customizations like new image editing features, etc. PhotoEditor™ is written on VB.NET.
- One server license for Graphics Mill for .NET™ and Red-Eye Removal Add-on™ is included into PhotoEditor™. This way you can extend the server-side functionality leveraging this powerful imaging component.