Evaluation ‘LayerMix’
Looking back through my work on the LayerMix website idea I feel this is quite an innovative website design for galleries to have. There is not a lot of information I found that I could directly relate or compare my ideas to. The idea of having automatic photo recognition and automatic texture recognition is only really just coming into the light (technology wise). The ideas are there but it has not be made or shown to have been made in the way I wanted to develop LayerMix.
The approach I undertook worked for the way I wanted it to but on occasions I did get myself confused and would have to take a step back and look at the design process again to understand where I was on the site. This was due to the variety I was trying to explain in the timeframe we had. Some of the time nearer the beginning of the coursework I felt I was drifting away from developing a piece of work for an art gallery instead of just a website and would have to stop again and try to get back towards an art gallery goal.
A potential improvement or a way to make the system easier would be to take out the automatic recognition part and just have users select what they want from each image and then if placed onto a canvas they would merge into a picture. You could even take out the automatic merge function but then this site would just be like any other image editing site and would not gain an advantage over them.
The website has a lot of detailed functions and if I had more time I would have developed each section (such as the forum or tutorials) but I tried to concentrate on what this website is about. ‘Creating and sharing images by mixing and matching other images in either a fully automatic or semi-automatic way’. Because of the complex nature of the links in the site I would have liked to develop a better storyboard but am happy with the one I produced in showing how to edit a picture.
With a bit more work and a bit more research and development into the field of image and texture recognition then I feel this proposal could possibly be implemented (with a lot more detail on each section as well). Time will be a key issue if it ever gets done.
The only information I am unsure on is how clear I am putting across my ideas, and are these understandable.
