Uma proposta não linear para o fluxo de edição de imagens

Abstract

This work explores the current model used to store the flow of operations done in the image editing process. Tools for editing normally use a stack to store this flow, and this work presents problems of this model: when the user undoes some operations and applies a new one the undone operations are lost. Other problem is that the history is kept on a session basis, and if the user saves an image after editing and opens it at another time the history will be empty, thus losing the changes that have already been executed and is no longer possible to undo. This work presents a nonlinear way for storing and viewing these flows, based on trees. With one tree users can have multiple paths in a unique way to visualize. Saving this tree keeps the history for future editing. Other advantages and details the proposed model is described throughout the paper. Finally we introduce the prototype developed to evaluate the model, after we present the results of evaluations with users using the prototype