System and method for animated character photo-editing interface and cross-platform education icon

A system for editing images, comprising:

• a first image-editing equipment to load an image;
• a software module within said first image-editing equipment to determine a set of quality-related problems of said image;
• a first animated icon displayed in conjunction with said image;
• a second animated icon to indicate a suggested user response to one of said set of quality-related problems, said second animated icon being displayed in conjunction with said first animated icon and said image;
• and
• a second image-editing equipment to receive at least said first animated icon from said first image-editing equipment.

A wide area network having stored thereon instructions for indicating suggested user responses, which, when downloaded from the wide area network and executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform the following:

• loading an image and at least a first animated icon into a first image-editing equipment from a second image-editing equipment;
• determining a set of quality-related problems of said image using software;
• displaying said first animated icon in conjunction with said image;
• and
• displaying a second animated icon in conjunction with said first animated icon to indicate a suggested user response to one of said quality-related problems with said image.

A system comprising:

• means for loading an image into a first image-editing equipment;
• means for determining a set of quality-related problems of said image using software;
• means for displaying a plurality of animated icons in conjunction with said image;
• means for indicating a suggested user response to one of said set of quality-related problems by one of said plurality of animated icons;
• and
• means for moving at least one of said plurality of animated icons to a second image-editing equipment.

A machine-readable medium having stored thereon instructions for indicating suggested user responses, which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform the following:

• generating an animated icon on first image-editing equipment;
• displaying a plurality of animated icons including said animated icon to indicate a suggested user response to a set of software determined quality-related problems of an image;
• and
• sending at least said animated icon to second image-editing equipment, said animated icon for indicating said suggested user response to a said one of said set of software determined quality-related problems of said image loaded into said second image-editing equipment.

An apparatus implemented in a first image-editing equipment for indicating suggested user responses, comprising:

• means for receiving an image and at least one animated icon from a second image-editing equipment,
• means for determining a set of quality-related problems of said image using software, said means for determining includes matching a corrective function within said software with one of said set of software determined quality-related problems;
• and
• means for generating a plurality of animated icons, at least one of said plurality of animated icons for indicating a suggested user response to said one of said set of software determined quality-related problems of said image.

A photo-editing system operating as a first image-editing equipment, comprising:

• an input/output interface;
• a processor coupled to a memory through a bus;
• and
• a system process executed by the processor from the memory to cause the processor to load an image and at least one animated icon from a second image-editing equipment via said input/output interface of said first image-editing equipment, determine a set of quality-related problems of said image using software, and display a plurality of animated icons including said at least one animated icon in conjunction with said image to visually indicate a suggested user response to one of said set of quality-related problems with said image.