Given the nature of picnik, i wouldnt think they go back and forth as the manipulation happens instantly as you drag a slider or pick a color.
You might be right about final processing (compiling) of the final image, but possibly giving the user a preview of how the image will look without going back and forth to the server for processing. This way the user can undo the changes he/she makes. alex --- In [email protected], Jon Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I believe a majority of the image processing is done on the server > but it depends on the circumstance. In most cases (not all though), > doing image processing in AS is not the best design choice. > > Some transformations may be done in AS, but it would not make sense > in the general case to do so. Especially with complex transformations > that may require per-pixel operations - AS is exceedingly slow at that. > > In my experience it's faster to push a quick image transformation > matrix or color matrix (or other image edit) to the server and have > GDI++, ImageMagik, PIL or one of the many imaging libraries make the > modification and send back a proxy. > > peace, > > jon > > On Jan 29, 2008, at 7:14 PM, Alexander Tsoukias wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Picnik.com has all these photo effects and I was wondering how are > > they doing it. Is it built in actionscript as functions? > > > > Are they using third party components? > > > > Any input is greatly appreciated. > > > > PS. Anyone looking to work on this please contact me. > > > > Thank you, > > Alex >
