Callanish
I don't want to crop the card though. I want to trim off the non-card parts. I put the card on the table, I snap the pic, you can see the table. I have tried zooming in with the camera, zooming out, trying different angles. It still happens. I need to manually trim the sides. Doing it through the camera app makes importing into your app very slow and clunky. This seems like such a simple thing to me
Your app does have some nice features but the killer one to me would be to be able to scan my decks and use them on the go. A simple grab bar to let me trim the borders in-app would make your app my go-to. It's not quite there yet but it could be.
Ah, I think I understand now what the issue is.
It's a direct consequence of the fixed card dimensions ratio.
If your cards are not w=1/h=(w*1.618) then photographing them is going to mess up edges.
The camera option was intended more for creating your own pictorial Tarot deck than for "scanning in" cards.
I've seen a few attempts at creating a tarot deck with photography and it's intriguing.
For example, something I've wondered is how well Tarot would work if you replaced the court cards with photo's of people you know who match those card character characteristics.
For uploading a printed deck, that you own, my intention was for the user to use the other 2 options, not the camera.
The camera does a rough job at best.
My personal preference is for using Dropbox.
I scan in the cards using a scanner and save them all in a dropbox folder, naming each image file after the card to make it easier to find.
Even if the card images aren't in the correct ratio the App will stretch/squeeze to fit nicely within.
As I said I want to deter piracy of Tarot decks.
If I make it too easy to load in a deck then before long we'll see Tarot decks on torrent sites either ready to load into Apps or bundled as zipped up images.
There is a strong parallel between Digital Tarot and what happened in Music.
Ripping your own CD's, that you'd bought, to play on an MP3 player isn't much different from scanning in Tarot Decks and loading them into an App.
I have no intention of opening Pandora's box with my App.
Which brings me to my recent post on this very topic of publishers and artists selling their decks on multiple Apps and not just one.
I won't make my App a Tarot "MP3 player" but someone else might and then the Deck market may well go he same direction as the music industry went.
It would be better, I think, for publishers to take the lead here and allow App developers to sell their decks in their Apps.
The Music model did prove that people will pay for quality package products over stolen rip offs
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=241294
Callanish