What do you look for in a graphics application?

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What do you look for in a graphics application?

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Whats the most important feature to you in a graphics app? Could be anything. Also, what tools could you live without?

Basically, I'm looking for suggestions about what should and shouldn't feature in PHPhoto (see sig).
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The Intuitiveness and a bit newness and a little bit showy / flashy...
Hope that helps (bt makes ur work harder if ya follow my suggestion :) )

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Do you really like showy/flashy stuff in an application? I'd have thought making it as useable as possible would be more important, and generally that means as little flashy stuff as possible..
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i would say ease of use would be most important early on. perhaps you could have different 'modes' for it: simple, and advanced - in simple mode, lots of the more complex features are hidden, with simple mode being suited to basic image manipulation work.

advanced mode, on the other hand, could rival photoshop! :lol:

that way, people new to the app could get to grips with it without being scared by a complicated interface (eg. photoshop or the gimp), and, once they have learnt it, they can move onto 'advanced' mode, where they can do all the complex stuff!

just a thought, based on my own experiences with image progs.

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Yeah, I've planned for a beginners/advanced interface. Thats definitely a good idea.

As for rivalling photoshop.. thats the idea.
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lots of customization, simple and powerful extensibility...
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versioning!!

So i can go back and forth when manipulating a photo.

by the way.. very pretty
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Post by onion2k »

AVATAr wrote:versioning!!
So i can go back and forth when manipulating a photo.
I've thought about including that actually. When you're writing software for a stateless system like a webpage its feckin' tricky..
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PHPhoto - Now that is a sweet idea.

As for features....Your best bet is looking at the main features in Photoshop.

Another way or getting research on this project is to sign up to a few graphics forums and ask graphics developers too :)

Icé :cool:
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forgot to add earlier, support for lots of file formats. Anyone and their browser can do png, gif, jpeg.. ;)
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Post by rehfeld »

i dont do much graphical work, and as such im still in the newbie pot.

so for me, Intuitiveness and ease of use is HUGE. i LOVE tooltips on hover :)

as for what i use a lot of- i mainly use effects on text.
shadows, bevels, gradients, embossing and other various effects

i also like the mess around with general filters/effects on the entire image when im starved for inspiration
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