Use Cases (Contributors)

A contributor, given a valid account, will have the ability to upload and annotate a photo. (For the example of this use case, a contributor wants to highlight the strong foreground in the photo.)

  1. Go to Upload page
  2. Select a file to upload
  3. Select Oval tool
  4. Draw an oval on a region of the photo
  5. Select Strong Foreground pattern to associate while the oval region is selected
  6. Publish the photo

Most of the activities a contributor is capable of will be conducted within an administration area where a valid account is required. The following are activities a contributor can perform within the administration area.

  • View uploaded photos
  • Edit published photos
  • Unpublish photos

When annotating a photo, the following are the tools/functionality that can be selected.

  • Draw oval region
  • Draw rectangle region
  • Select region
  • Delete region

When a region is selected, the following functionality will be enabled.

  • Select pattern
  • Deselect pattern
  • Add a pattern
  • Add a note

Annotating a Photo

A contributor to the web site (Framing the Sky) will have the ability to upload a photo and add annotation. He will be able to draw shapes over the photo to highlight certain portions of interest on the photo. The highlight is to be labeled with defined composition rules. A highlight can be supplied with a note for further clarification.