Apple Inc.

Timothy David Cherna

Randy Ubillos

Garrett M Johnson

Nikhil M Bhatt

Zehang Sun

Ralph T Brunner

Russell Y Webb

Samuel Morgan Roberts

Peter Warner

Jeffrey Traer Bernstein

Avi Elias Cieplinski

B Michael Victor

Christopher Cunningham

Kirk E Paulsen

Christopher R Cunningham

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, are described for combining the crop function with zoom, pan and straighten functions as part of a single cropping environment, such that a user can select a portion of an image for cropping, apply zoom, pan and straighten transformations to the selected image portion and then crop the transformed image portion in a single utility. In one aspect, the methods include the actions of receiving user input defining a crop region within a displayed image. The methods also include the actions of displaying a user interface including a cropping panel that is configured to display a subset of the image corresponding to the defined crop region. Further, the methods include the actions of receiving user input requesting to perform at least one of a zoom, rotate or translate operation on the crop region displayed in the cropping panel.

Multifunctional environment for image cropping

Some embodiments provide an image editing application that edits an image. The image editing application displays an image in a display area. The image editing application displays a rotatable user interface item. In response to receiving a user input, the image editing application rotates the rotatable user interface item. The image editing application rotates the image displayed in the display area based on the rotation of the rotatable user interface item.

User interface tools for cropping and straightening image

Some embodiments provide a novel user interface (UI) tool that is a unified slider control, which includes multiple sliders that slide along a region. The region is a straight line in some embodiments, while it is an angular arc in other embodiments. In some embodiments, the unified slider control is used in a media editing application to allow a user to modify several different properties of the image by moving several different sliders along the region. Each slider is associated with a property of the image. A position of the slider in the region corresponds to a value of the property associated with the slider.

Unified slider control for modifying multiple image properties

Some embodiments provide a non-transitory machine readable medium having a computer program which when executed by at least one processing unit performs a set of image editing operations on an image. The computer program performs a first image editing operation on a first image to produce an edited second image. Upon receiving a request to perform a second image editing operation on the edited second image, the computer program performs the second image editing operation on the first image to produce an edited third image. Upon receiving an indication of completion of the second image editing operation, the computer program automatically performing the first image editing operation on the edited third image to produce an edited fourth image.

Ordered processing of edits for a media editing application

A system and method that receives and edits image data of an underwater scene in a digital image in order to remove undesirable tints from objects in the scene. In some embodiments, colors near the color of the water itself are protected to leave the water looking blue. Removing undesirable tints without removing the tint of the water itself results in images with more realistic coloring of people and objects in the scene, without eliminating the color cues (e.g., blue water) that indicate that the image is a photograph of an underwater scene.

Method for color balancing underwater photography

A non-transitory machine readable medium that has a computer program for adjusting color values of an image represented in a color space. The image includes several pixels. Each pixel includes a set of color values. The computer program receives a selection of a location on the image. The computer program determines a type of content that is associated with the selected location on the image. From several different image editing operations, the computer program selects a set of image editing operations based on the determined type of content. The computer program displays a set of user interface controls that is associated with the selected set of image editing operations.

Context aware user interface for image editing

A non-transitory machine readable medium that has a computer program for adjusting color values of an image represented in a color space. The image includes a set of pixels. Each pixel has a set of color values. The computer program receives a user input on a user interface (UI) item for adjusting color values of an image that are associated with a type of content. The computer program identifies a subset of pixels having color values that fall within a range of color values associated with the type of content. The computer program performs a color adjustment operation on the identified subset of pixels.

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Timothy David Cherna