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[Nadia Alramli <nadiana@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey,

>
> >
> > The effect result is amazing. I'm really impressed.
> I feel there is still one thing missing in Phatch. I based myself on
> this tutorial:
> http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/create-a-polaroid-effect-of-your-photo/
>
> and I like the shades they give to the paper:
> http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/polaroid/polaroid01.png
>
> This we need as well in Phatch.
>
And now we have, check the attached actionlist and highlight effect. The
actionlist links to a local path. It is just for you to test it.


>
> > And I like what you did
> > to the highlight action.
> Long live the ImageMath module!
>
Indeed!


>
>
> > I just have two notes:
> > * Would you change the the save path to somewhere outside the source
> folder?
> > It will be annoying for anyone who run the same actionlist over and over
> > again with different settings. Right now you have to delete the results
> > before running the actionlist again.
> Oops, you're right. Fixed.
>
Thanks


>
>
> > * I noticed that the month and week days names are all in small letters.
> I
> > think it is better to capitalize the first letter.
> I might have a better idea:
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/phatch/+spec/title-variables
>
That idea is really useful especially for filenames. I still think thought
that weeks and months should be capitalized all the time. Maybe I'm wrong.

Best Regards,
Nadia

>
>
> > Other than that, wow just wow. I can't wait to see users responses to
> this
> > :)
> Thanks. Yes, Phatch is shaping up nicely. It is really important we
> provide the end user with top quality action lists, as that will be
> the best tutorials.
>
> Stani
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Nadia
> >
> >>
> >> I thought a Polaroid action list would be a good test case for the
> >> variable border action. So I googled some tutorials and made the
> >> action list. This gave some inspiration for improvements:
> >> - Highlight action: I added an opacity field. The highlight action as
> >> it was until now, was ideal for glossy web2.0 style badges. However
> >> for subtle photo reflections the highlights were to strong. So I added
> >> an opacity field which uses the ImageMath module.
> >> - Variable border: when an image has an alpha mask and the borders are
> >> positive, the action should use that mask instead.
> >> - pil.py: when the exif tags are not writable (png), the image should
> >> be saved in its orientation (this means rotated).
> >> Please try to polaroid action list (available from File>Library) and
> >> let me know if you see improvements.
> >> Enjoy,
> >> Stani
> >>
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