US 2010/0165369 A1 · IMAGE CROPPING SYSTEM AND METHOD

Abstract

Electronic document design systems and methods allowing a user engaged in customizing an electronic product to re-crop product images in a manner that is compatible with the product layout. Upon selection of an image area in the product design, the user can choose to re-crop the image currently displayed in the image area or to select and crop a different image to be used in the selected image area. A cropping indicator that can be resized and repositioned is provided to the user. The cropping indicator is automatically sized to have and retain the same height to width ratio as the selected image area. Upon completion of any resizing or repositioning operation, the selected image area of the electronic product is updated to reflect the cropping changes made by the user.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method for facilitating user customization of the image content of an image container in an electronic product design, the method comprising

displaying an electronic product design to a user, the design containing at least one or more user-customizable image containers, each image container characterized by an associated height-to-width ratio and each image container having associated therewith a base image and cropping information identifying at least a portion of the base image as content of the image container;
allowing the user to select an image container in the electronic product design for customization of the content of the image container,
characterized in that
in response to a user request to perform custom cropping for the selected image container, the associated base image and a cropping indicator having a height-to-width ratio which matches the height-to-width ratio of the selected image container and positioned over the base image to indicate to the user the portion of the base image that is the current content of the image container is displayed to the user.

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A computer readable storage medium tangibly embodying program instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, implements a method for facilitating user customization of the image content of an image container in an electronic product design, the method comprising

displaying an electronic product design to a user, the design containing at least one or more user-customizable image containers, each image container characterized by an associated height-to-width ratio and each image container having associated therewith a base image and cropping information identifying at least a portion of the base image as content of the image container;
allowing the user to select an image container in the electronic product design for customization of the content of the image container,
characterized in that
in response to a user request to perform custom cropping for the selected image container, the associated base image and a cropping indicator having a height-to-width ratio which matches the height-to-width ratio of the selected image container and positioned over the base image to indicate to the user the portion of the base image that is the current content of the image container is displayed to the user.

1 more element

A system for facilitating user customization of image content of an image container in an electronic product design, the system comprising:

one or more processors configured to
display an electronic product design to a user, the design containing at least one or more user-customizable image containers, each image container characterized by an associated height-to-width ratio and each image container having associated therewith a base image and cropping information identifying at least a portion of the base image as content of the image container, and
in response to user selection of an image container in the electronic product design for customization of the content of the image container and a user request to perform custom cropping for the selected image container are provided, to display to the user the associated base image and a cropping indicator having a height-to-width ratio which matches the height-to-width ratio of the selected image container and positioned over the base image to indicate to the user the portion of the base image that is the current content of the selected image container.

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Image cropping system and method

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