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    crop photo for user image

    Hi there I have a mobile app I'm building, good functionality so far but I am stuck on uploading a user image. The issue I am having is that the photo needs to be cropped. In (for example) my android phone if I want to take a photo of a user for my contacts I...
    1) Open the app
    2) select the option to take a photo
    3) take the photo
    4) crop the photo
    5) done in one app

    In A5 I can't find a user friendly way to do this instead I have to:

    1) use the camera and take a photo of the user (before I open my app)
    2) open up google photos (or some photo editing software)
    3) navigate to the menu
    4) find the crop function
    5) crop the photo and save it (rotate if necessary too)
    6) open up my app, navigate to the photo upload component I've built
    7) click the upload btn which gives me access to the file system
    8) select google photos
    9) navigate to the cropped photo and select it
    10) done using three different apps

    I have had to build instructions to help users understand what they need to do if they want a nice square image orientated the right way but they are ridiculously long and android and iPhone have different photo editing apps and options which becomes ridiculously complex to train users easily.

    If I just take a photo I get all sorts of sizing and orientation issues, the end result is poor and users complain it looks cheap.

    Any ideas out there in A5 land please?
    Last edited by [email protected]; 07-29-2015, 05:48 AM.
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    Re: crop photo for user image

    Hi Brad,

    Look at this thread
    http://www.alphasoftware.com/alphafo...highlight=crop
    Wiki link
    http://wiki.alphasoftware.com/a5_run...mmand+Function
    http://www.imagemagick.org/script/co...ne-options.php
    Not sure this is exactly what you were wanting as this is very much code based no GUI so I am guessing not wxactly what you wanted... but interesting never the less.


    If you are wanting a GUI cropping experience then I suggest you will need to use a JQuery tool or some other java-script add-in/tool from the likes of Code Canyon.
    something like this http://codecanyon.net/item/-imagesel...review/4745700

    Bruce

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      #3
      Re: crop photo for user image

      Something like this? http://fengyuanchen.github.io/cropper/

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        #4
        Re: crop photo for user image

        Hi Bruce,

        Mate the http://fengyuanchen.github.io/cropper/ page looks brilliant, but how do I integrate it with the image upload action?

        At the moment I have it so you click a btn which fires off the image upload action javascript. In the app this accesses the phones camera and you take a photo then it asks you to save it. At that point when it asks you to save we need the ability to (and the link you provided enables me to articulate my requirement better thanks) to manipulate a cropping container with a fixed aspect ratio of 1:1 that can be expanded or shrunk on the canvas to highlight the face and then save this cropped portion of the photo only.

        This was I can get consistent looking images into the app that force the user to download images that conform to a standard ratio of 1:1.

        When I try and use the scaling options in A5 I get all sort of image outcomes, wide, short and squished or stretched if you think of a contact list with images all down the left hand side they end up looking like a dogs breakfast, you want them all the same ratio so it looks professional (don't you?).

        What would be the steps from here to apply the code in the link you pointed me to? (bear in mind I bought A5 as a no code then later a low code environment I was attracted to the genies so my coding ability for HTML and Javascript is rudimentary at best.

        Appreciate your thoughts/ideas. Cheers

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          Re: crop photo for user image

          Originally posted by [email protected] View Post
          Hi Bruce,
          What would be the steps from here to apply the code in the link you pointed me to? (bear in mind I bought A5 as a no code then later a low code environment I was attracted to the genies so my coding ability for HTML and Javascript is rudimentary at best.
          Appreciate your thoughts/ideas. Cheers
          heh heh it's above my pay grade (I am just good at using Google) I don't know know how to integrate it, let me chat with Mike as this is more his gig.

          Bruce

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            #6
            Re: crop photo for user image

            he he he he

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              #7
              Re: crop photo for user image

              Did you ever find an answer for this? I have a need now myself!

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                #8
                Re: crop photo for user image

                There are a number of plugins that help with cropping. What, specifically, are the requirements?

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                  #9
                  Re: crop photo for user image

                  Cropping and resizing after uploading the image.

                  The user will be creating a custom membership card with several options, so there will be no way to know exactly what will look good until they try it out.

                  Telling the user to crop it to certain requirements beforehand won't work.

                  And these will be general public users, so it has to work easily without any training needed.

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