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The user will be allowed to draw strokes onto the image, but in order to facilitate natural drawing and stylus support this will use the capacitive touchscreen of the device. However, the user will be able to adjust the stroke width by introducing different size magnets or by varying the distance of a magnet to the device. The goal is to implement the interaction effectively such that the user is able to use touch and gesture together in a way that proves more natural and efficient than either interaction method alone \cite{Ryokai_2004}.   To facilitate combining touch and magnet based interactions, the user will have an option to switch to magnet+touch magnet + touch  input on the screen. When the user is in touch mode, the user will only be able to provide touch input within the application. If the user has selected magnet mode, both magnet and touch input will be enabled. This will allow seamless interaction between touch + magnet interactions. However if the user would not like magnet interference, regular touch only input is available. An alternative method of toggling between magnet based interactions that we will look into is using magnet based gestures. A specific gesture can toggle between the two modes. However these gestures should not be easily reproducable reproducible  as to not allow false triggering of magnet input. This is an area we will need to look into going forward with the project. We will also be looking into support for multiple magnets. At this time, it seems like this would be a huge undertaking since the magnetometer only reads the total magnetic field around the device. This means that without any prior knowledge, there doesn't seem to be any reliable way to tell if the changes in the magnetic filed are due to multiple magnets or a single larger one etc. That being said, Magnetic Marionette \cite{Hwang_2013} seems to be using a combination of magnetics in some way, so this will definitely be kept in mind and investigated further as the project progresses.  We believe there is tremendous opportunity in displaying the various magnet based and touch interactions in a photo browser application. We hope to seamlessly integrate the two interactions where its it's  natural and not cumbersome to the user.