Croppr is born... perhaps pre-mature

Posted July 5th, 2006 in Javascript, Rails and or Ruby

So, I finally got around to testing TextMate’s new blogging bundle. It’s dead simple… Anywho, I figured I would use it to give a sneak peek of my newest invention Croppr, which I will be revealing in it’s full glory tomorrow night at SDruby.

All right, so Croppr was born out of a desire to make a better way to crop images online. Specifically the need came from my buddy Tom Werner’s pet project, Gravatar. The inspiration came from iChat’s avatar cropper:

iChat Cropper

After days of arduous JavaScript hacking with the help of Prototype and eventually Prototype Lite with moo.fx I had a lightweight browser equivalent. Have a peek and play around.

What good is a lightweight JavaScript cropper without a lightweight back end to actually do the cropping? Enter camping. In just 225 lines of sexy Ruby code I have a fully functional image cropping machine. I hope to have a running demo available in the near future. As far as licensing goes, I’m still working on it so hold your shorts. Until than, come to the SDruby meetup (start driving now if you have to) and see all the awesomeness that is Croppr!

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4 Responses to “Croppr is born... perhaps pre-mature”

  1. Joshua Joshua Says:
    February 6th, 2007 at 03:22 PM

    That’s incredibly impressive. I don’t have SVN and don’t know how to get the demo you linked to to work, but I’ll just assume it works like you say it does. I love where the inspiration from, that avatar chooser can actually be found all throughout the system, not just in iChat. I’ve always found it to be one of the most intuitive little things.

    I love how if you place a picture too large in there it will dynamically resize it as well, not just crop it… I’m wondering if your web app does that?

    Anyway, looks like great work. Cheers!

  2. aron aron Says:
    October 10th, 2007 at 12:50 PM

    Dude! I search all over your site and cannot find the download for the image cropper script? Where is it? Can you put it on the top of your page?

  3. Chris Van Pelt Chris Van Pelt Says:
    October 30th, 2007 at 08:24 AM

    Yeah, I appoligize these links are out dated… http://svn.vandev.com/croppr/trunk/ is where to get it

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