Digital image editing

A method for image manipulation in connection with construction of a website by a user without image stretching or other distortion, comprising the steps of:

• providing a developmental website comprising a developmental website workspace region for construction of the developmental website by the user;
• providing a viewable display region for display of a developmental website workspace region;
• in response to a user command corresponding to insertion of an image-specific website construction content item into the developmental website workspace region, displaying an image container region of a predetermined initial height and width comprising an image view region, the image view region having a predetermined initial height and width less than the image container region;
• in further response to user selection and insertion of a selected image into said image container region, displaying the particular selected image in the image view region within the image container region, the selected image having a predetermined resolution and a size less than the initial height and width of the image view region;
• displaying an image manipulation control comprising a slider control bar in a position proximate to the image container region for zooming the image within the image container region and image view region without resizing the image view region or the image container region;
• displaying an image manipulation control comprising an image height control handle proximate to the bottom of the selected image (at the lowermost extent of the selected image) for adjusting the height of the image view region and the selected image relative to the fixed uppermost initial extent of the selected image within the boundaries of the image container region so as to define an adjusted image view;
• displaying an image manipulation control comprising an image width control handle proximate to a side of the selected image for adjusting the width of the image view region and the selected image relative to a side of the image within the boundaries of the image container region so as to define an adjusted image view;
• displaying an image manipulation control comprising an image resizing control handle proximate to a corner of the selected image for simultaneously adjusting the height and width the image view region and simultaneously adjusting the height and width of the selected image within the boundaries of the image container region so as to define an adjusted image view;
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• in response to user selection of an image manipulation control comprising a pan control, moving the selected original image within an image view region defined by the adjusted image view, wherein user manipulation of the image manipulation controls does not result in a stretching or other distortion of the image.