JavaScript Image Cropper UI, built on Prototype & script.aculo.us
For a current project I needed a browser based image cropping user interface, I wanted it to have the same features as found in something like Photoshop and be based on the Prototype JavaScript framework and possibly script.aculo.us, as they are both being employed in the area this tool will be used, plus taking advantage of their power would reduce the weight impact of the interface.
I did quite a lot of searching for some ready made solutions and found none that had the complete feature set that I required or any complete versions based on Prototype, the closest I found was Encytemedia’s Prototype/Script.aculo.us Javascript Image Cropper, but this is far from complete.
So after a week and a half of work, I present the JavaScript image cropper UI, built on Prototype & script.aculo.us, there is also demo page which allows you to try out all the functionality of the image cropper UI.
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