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Owusu, Eric
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2023-03-03
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Image editors are powerful tools but can be more difficult to work with than code for
some specific tasks. They are great for art, but not always as good for precise image
manipulation. This is where code-based editors are more effective. There are some image editors
that support scripting, however, some image editors are complicated to use, with no available
documentation. Other image editors have scripting hidden within submenus making it difficult to
find. Furthermore, some image editors implement scripting in a way where they only a basic
“run” button and lack the use of tools and interactive filters. To achieve the goal of creating a
scripting tool for image editing that will be user-friendly and accessible, this exploratory study
examines: “How well can scripting be implemented in an image editing application when
scripting is the main focus?”
The objective of this study is to create an easy-to-use image editor that allows users to
create scriptable tools and image filters without having to search for the ability to do so. The
proposed application, Progrimage, uses a scripting language called Lua which was designed to
be beginner-friendly. Progrimage is designed to have a dedicated button to create a tool and to
create a filter that can be used for drawing and manipulating objects, processing image pixels,
creating layers, and more. With this image editor application, scripting has high priority.
Applying a user centered design approach, Progrimage will allow users to create their own tools
and filters and is intended to increase user satisfaction, and intensify learnability and user
adoption.