[Digikam-devel] [Bug 149936] combine pictures in a new picture

[Arnd Baecker]

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------- Additional Comments From arnd.baecker web de  2007-09-18 08:19 -------
While the picture (which looks nice and interesting)
gives an idea of what you have in mind,
it does not really explain the thing... ;-)
Before something like this is realized, a bit of 
brain-storming is needed to get it right.

Some thoughts:
- this sounds like a kipi-plugin to me
- images should be selectable in digikam's thumbnail view
  and then be added to the combine tool
- the combine tool should have a thumbnail-list
  (e.g. light the Light Table has)
- from there images are added to the templates
  by drag-and-drop (or some keyboard shortcuts)
- a wide choice of different templates should be available
- creation of new templates should be easily possible.
  I.e. a kind of (separate?) template editor will be needed.
- Users should be able to contribute templates to digikam.
- Initially templates should only support rectangles
  (later, circles, ellipses or even more complicated shapes might
  be useful)
- the (rectangular) region for one image should allow for decoration
  (border, drop shadow, smooth blend with the background, ...)
- a background image should be possible
- adding Text should be possible
- It should be possible to save such a project (without and maybe with
  images) for later modification
- When an image (of a certain size and aspect ratio) is
  placed onto a template region, it (usually) has to be resized and
  cropped. 
  Thus for each image a different scaling would be needed
  and a separate positioning
  (E.g. scaling could be done by CTRL+mousewheel and shifting
   via the middle mouse)
- To make such operations fast, they could all be done
  on the thumbnails and only later the full version would be generated.
- When scaling images, applying an unsharp mask 
  should be possible afterwards.

Hmm, I better stop here, that's a lot already ....
Are there already any other programms around which do something like this?

Arnd