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.net photo select 'wand' functionality

Is there any way using .net I can emulate the wand functionality found in your normal photo editor? I.e. user clicks on part of a photo and the application automatically selects the surrounding X pixels based on a given factor (usually tolerance threshold). Any idea on how I could do this with .net? Thanks ...

Handling many image files in scrollview on iPhone similar to photos app

So I've seen this question asked before and in fact I asked it last night but I thought I'd give it another go just to see if I could get any other unique views on the problem. The Problem — I have an app with a large number of uiimageviews (with image downloaded to disk) in a scrollview which of course has two large problems facing it:...

What is the fastest way to write images captured from camera to the Photos album on an iPhone?

I'm currently using writeImageToSavedPhotosAlbum:orientation:completionBlock: and it is taking a little over 3 seconds to write an image to the Photos album ... whereas the standard Camera app seems to persist images much faster. So, what is the fastest way to write files to the default Photos album? I'm not sure what all my options ar...

Getting an irregular-shaped object's pixel area in Photoshop

Is there a way to get an oddly-shaped object's pixel area in CS5? Eg. Circle/ellipse. Or, if there's some easy-to-automate way to do it outside of Photoshop. I know it's possible to use a magic wand selection and see the height+width in the info panel, but that only works accurately for rectangles. Thanks!! ...

Organizing Images and their thumnails

What's the best-practice method of storing a user's uploaded pictures and it's corresponding thumbnails. I noticed Flickr uses filename distinctions like: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/1234/789456123a_s.jpg where _s.jpg describes the size of the image (_s.jpg = small, _m.jpg = medium...). However, does storing images like the following ...

How does facebook know what images are needed to get from a URL?

When I attach a link on facebook I get the title, url, description and images from that page. But facebook separates the images and gives just the important ones. And this is what I don't understand. For example, attach this link http://tonlinegames.com/ - This is a gaming site with photos about the games. When you attach it f...

How to save a photo uploaded from internet on a database ?

Hello, in my android application,I want to save some photos uploaded from a server on my database and then reuse them later. I think I should save them in a binary format and save their links into the database. Is it the better solution? Can you give some code or an example? Thanks. PS: now I only uploaded the image and display it di...

How to automatically grab a member's profile photo?

Hi I know about gravatar.com, are there any other sites offering similar features? Thanks ...

Internet Explorer unwanted artifact on images when using javascript slideshow

Hi there, We're having the following weird (well...) behavior in all versions of Internet Explorer browsers when using javascript slideshows. You can see what I mean here http://www.tospirto.net/index.php?ID=photo_gallery&Rec_ID=481 In the last 3 images there are white lines and artifacts created by the browser. This is true as I ...

Getting Images From Gallery - Not All "Exist"?

Hello, I am simply trying to get the path of an image that the user selects and then convert it into a bitmap. The problem is, only some of the images in the gallery work when selected (by "work" I mean they are found to be a file that exists), while the others claim the file does not exist (even though the image is showing up in the gal...

Is there a way of programatically detecting whether a photograph is in focus?

If I were building a web service that used a number of photos to illustrate a service, it would be useful to actually detect whether photos are in focus or not. Is there any way of doing this programatically? (Even better, is there an open source implementation of such a routine?) ...

Upload Photo To Current User Album Facebook PHP

I wrote a Facebook app and need to be able to save a Photo in the current user's photos. I am using PHP. Anyone have any ideas? ...

How can I get my photos from TWITTER using Zend Framework

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change wallpaper via iphone app

Does apple allows me to change the wallpaper of the iphone from my application? ...