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Photo Editor – A simple online photo editing application

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16 pointschenfengyuan8 comments

My first observation was that it took me a moment to work out how to confirm the crop. The confirm button is unlabelled and in the top right of the screen - a place I would generally expect 'global' actions rather than an action crucial to my immediate task.

EDIT

Second observation - even more confused. I hadn't accepted the crop - instead I'd entered a new mode with no more editing possible - only the four unlabelled icons in the top right (you get the impression I really hate unlabelled icons? Google 'mystery meat'...)

So I'm trying to wrap my head around the conceptual model. I can do multiple things to my image - but the crop doesn't give me a preview until I accept all the edits. So how am I meant to crop then flip or some other combination?

I did the same thing. I'd suggest that a double-tap/click on the cropped area should confirm the crop.. At least that was my first instinct.

Confirm the cropping by double-click is supported now. Thanks.

Thanks for the feedback.

1. The icon buttons are labeled by its `title` attribute, may be not conspicuous.

2. Tap the `Enter` key on the keyboard can also confrim the cropping (Confirm by dblclick is also supported now).

I will continue to improve the app. Thanks again.

Looks pretty good. Have you considered turning this into a Chrome extension?

I've not found a simple photo editor extension that I can use within Chrome. Ideally I'd just like to right click on photos, do simple crop/resize/quality/colour conversions and have the results available for insertion into gmail attachments or form uploads (via a temp URL perhaps?).

This would replace my current workflow...often I find myself receiving a set of images in gmail, downloading them, performing trivial manipulation with Windows photo editor or paintbrush, saving the results with sensible encoding/quality (some ppl forward me bitmaps...) then re-uploading the results.

Is some thing like Polarr online too complex for you, it also has a chrome app (works offline) https://www.polarr.co/

Disclaimer: Founder of Polarr

Hi, I have not tried Polarr before.

It looks great, and i'll probably give it a go. However it doesnt improve my workflow - I still have to download my photos from Gmail (or random websites or whatever) and open them in Polarr.

Recall I'm looking for integration with a browser. If it was a Chrome extension, and I could right click on any image, on any webpage, and select 'Open with Polarr', that would be a great start.

Thanks for the suggestion. But I think the app is too simple for that right now. I will continue to improve the app anyway.

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