Author Topic: DynamicCrop has it backwards. And, thirds.  (Read 3177 times)

Offline David Serrano

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DynamicCrop has it backwards. And, thirds.
« on: 2015 May 05 12:08:54 »
DynamicCrop works by interactively letting the user choose an area to crop. This area is displayed with reduced contrast. However, wouldn't it make more sense to reduce the contrast (and/or brightness!) of the area outside the crop? Cropping is useful not only for easily getting rid of unwanted things near the borders, but it's also a composition tool. It's useful to be able to concentrate on the resulting image by having it displayed unmodified, while the uninteresting parts are obscured.

And, since it's a composition tool, it could very well display a couple of vertical and horizontal lines at 33/67% of width/height. Or maybe at Fibonacci's 38.2/61.8%. Those would also help when a diurnal landscape image is tilted and we want to rotate it to get a horizon that honours it's name :).
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Re: DynamicCrop has it backwards. And, thirds.
« Reply #1 on: 2015 May 05 12:16:51 »
+1!
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Re: DynamicCrop has it backwards. And, thirds.
« Reply #2 on: 2015 May 05 12:59:34 »
Or options to toggle if the inside or the outside is obscured. Or even an option to have nothing obscured. Do we really need to be reminded that we are going to loose what's outside the box?