Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Scott Harrison Douglas

Matthew Jay Kotler

Steven P Geffner

David Wayne Waltman

Zhao-Hong Max Mai

Auston Warner Zahrt

Nicholas W Rohring

Larry T Hatfield

Lawrence Fubini Waldman

Thomas Charles Underhill

Robert Emmett Kolba, Jr

Technologies are described herein for altering the appearance of a digital image using a shape. A mask edit mode of operation is provided in which an application program displays a mask shape superimposed on a digital image. The application program also provides user interface controls for altering the size, position, and rotation of the digital image independently of the mask shape, and user interface controls for altering the size, position, and rotation of the mask shape independently of the digital image. When a cropping request is received, the portion of the digital image within the mask shape is mapped onto the mask shape, thereby creating a mask-cropped shape, and a normal editing mode is entered. In the normal editing mode a set of user interface controls is provided for modifying the size, position, and rotation of the mask-cropped shape.

Altering the appearance of a digital image using a shape

Technologies are described herein for creating and editing dynamic graphics via a World Wide Web ('Web') interface. A Web service is provided for generating dynamic graphics in response to requests received from client computers. In response to requests from client computers, the Web service generates requested dynamic graphics and returns the generated dynamic graphics to the client computers in response to the requests. Parameters may be provided to the Web service indicating a list of text items, a layout type, a visual style, a color, and other aspects of a dynamic graphic. A user interface is also provided for creating and editing a dynamic graphic within a Web browser application.

Creating and editing dynamic graphics via a web interface

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