Adobe, Inc.

Mark C Hamburg

Todor Georgiev Georgiev

Eric A Scouten

Jen-Chan Jeff Chien

Gregg Darryl Wilensky

Matthew Keith Albright

Lars U Borg

Eric Chan

Jason T Bartell

Stephen N Schiller

Glenn Gregory Gilley

Tapani Juha Otala

Lance Lewis

Thomas W Costa

John P Felleman

Stephen E Carlsen

Thomas F Knoll

Sumner Browning Paine

Troy A Gaul

Randolph A Strauss

Venkatesan Esakki

Peter J Baust

Andrei M Herasimchuk

Robert J Pappas

David W Clark

Thomas W McRae

Kevin Michael Goldsmith

Benjamin A Zibble

Kevin Tieskoetter

Eleanor G Poley

Alexander G Smith

Katja Rimmi

Mayank Saraogi

Non-destructive collaborative editing may include a node among a plurality of nodes in a distributed collaborative environment receiving an input indicating a change regarding a displayed image. The node may receive another input to finalize the change. In response to the other input, the node may generate a rendition that reflects the change applied to the image without replacing an original version of the image. The rendition may include a thumbnail and a rendered preview of an adjusted version of the image based on the change. In one embodiment, textual information that describes a change regarding an image of a plurality of images may be received from a node of a plurality of nodes in a distributed collaborative environment. The textual information may be stored. Application of the textual information to an image may result in a modified version of the image in addition to the original version.

Non-destructive collaborative editing

Image compensation value computation techniques are described. In one or more implementations, an image key value is calculated, by a computing device, for image data based on values of pixels of the image data. A tuning value is computed by the computing device using the image key value. The tuning value is configured to adjust how the image data is to be measured to compute an image compensation value. The image compensation value is then computed by the computing device such that a statistic computed in accordance with the tuning value approaches a target value. The image compensation value is applied by the computing device to adjust the image data.

Image compensation value computation

Multi-dimensional content browsing may include assigning images from a plurality of images into a plurality of groups. An interface that includes first and second dimensions may be displayed. The interface may allow browsing in the first dimension among the plurality of groups and may also allow browsing in the second dimension among one or more images of one of the groups. A request to prefetch image data in at least one of the dimensions may be generated based on an anticipation to display the image data.

Multi-dimensional browsing of content

Content in a content-aware mesh may be accessed and/or manipulated. In one embodiment, a node may receive access to each of a plurality of images that are distributed among at least two nodes of a mesh. The at least two nodes may not be part of the same service. Accessing to each of the images may be performed without the node locally storing all of the images. The node may display an image of the plurality of images via a uniform interface without indication as to which of the nodes the image is stored on.

Accessing content in a content-aware mesh

Methods, program products and systems for accepting user input selecting a parameter for a parametric curve, the parametric curve being displayed in a graph. A range of curves for the parametric curve is determined based on a range of values for the parameter. And the range of curves for the parameter is displayed in the graph of the curve.

Dynamic feedback and interaction for parametric curves

Automatic image adjustment is described, including performing a principal component analysis (PCA) for a plurality of values to determine a principal component, normalizing the principal component to obtain a normalized principal component, and generating an image by mapping the plurality of values using the normalized principal component.

Automatic image adjustment

Methods, program products and systems for accepting a first request to print a first image, which includes image data, using first settings that specify one or more nondestructive first transformations of the first image data that creates a first appearance of the first image. In response to the first request, a first association between a time of the first request, the first image, and the first settings is stored. A second request to print a second image, which includes second image data, using second settings is accepted. The second settings specify one or more nondestructive second transformations of the second image data that create a second appearance of the second image. In response to the second request, a second association between a time of the second request, the second image, and the second settings is stored.

Image printing history

Systems and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing techniques for compositing a digital image. The invention performs the steps of identifying a graphics element in a compositing order, the graphics element identifying a source image from among a plurality of images; copying the source image into a working buffer; using the element to modify the working buffer by applying a general filtering operation to data in the working buffer; and crossfading a first image with the modified working buffer.

Multiple backdrop compositing

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that generates a set of color-toning curves which can be used for color toning (or casting) a monochrome or color image. During operation, the system receives a first set of color-toning parameters for shadow regions, a second set of color-toning parameters for highlight regions, and an invariance property which needs to be maintained during color toning. The color-toning parameters specify the color that is to be applied to the shadows and highlights. Next, the system computes a set of color-toning-curve values and a set of color-toning-curve slopes using the first set of color-toning parameters, the second set of color-toning parameters, and the invariance property. The system then generates the set of color-toning curves using the set of color-toning-curve values and the set of color-toning-curve slopes. An important aspect of the present invention is that it can generate the color-toning curves simply based on the user specified color tones for the shadow and highlight regions.

Method and apparatus for generating color toning curves

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for protecting colors from being clipped during color adjustment. A first set of colors is identified in a source color space, and a first color mapping is specified to associate colors in the source color space with mapped colors. The first set of colors and the first color mapping are used to construct a third color mapping that can be represented as a concatenation of an injective second color mapping with the first color mapping. The third color mapping is constructed such that each color in the first set of colors is associated with a mapped color inside a destination color space.

Protecting colors from clipping

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for erasing in a digital image. A method includes identifying a plurality of tip regions on the image, establishing an erasure color, and completely erasing pixels in the tip region that have a color matching the erasure color. Pixels having partially matching colors are partially erased and color decontaminated.

Smart erasure brush

Methods and apparatus implementing a technique for preparing one or more vector data objects for rendering. In general, in one aspect, the technique includes receiving an object that is a vector data object and defining clipping states of the object. Each clipping state of the object represents an appearance of the object for a region of the object. The technique includes, for each clipping state, determining whether a clipping path is needed to render the appearance of the object represented by the clipping state and generating clipping instructions in accordance with the determining. The technique includes, for each clipping state, generating rendering instructions for rendering the appearance of the region of the object represented by the clipping state. The technique includes associating the generated clipping and rendering instructions to the corresponding clipping states.

Combining raster and vector data in the presence of transparency

A method of compositing a plurality of ordered image layers which include a group of consecutive layers. The group has a shape effect and a composition effect. Any image layers under the group are composited to generate a first intermediate image. A first subset of the plurality of image layers is composited to generate a second intermediate image, the first intermediate image is composited with the second intermediate image according to the composition effect to generate a third intermediate image, and the third intermediate image is composited with a second subset of the plurality of image layer to generate a fourth intermediate image. The first intermediate image is cross-faded with the fourth intermediate image according to the shape effect to generate a fifth intermediate image. The fifth intermediate image is composited with any remaining image layers to generate a final image.

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Woodinville, WA, United States of America

Mark C Hamburg