Image

What is the difference between resize and scale?

I have a slow (qnap/arm) server and using convert -resize ... it takes over 2 minutes to resize a normal photo. Using the scale method it "only" takes about 20 seconds. This relly improves the experience for me when resizing lots of images...

Is there any other way to speed up the conversion?

The change in image.imagemagick.inc:

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I have the modules

Enabled Name Version Description
Image 6.x-1.0-alpha4 Allows uploading, resizing and viewing of images.
Required by: Image Attach (enabled), Image Gallery (enabled), Image Import (enabled)
Image Attach 6.x-1.0-alpha4 Allows easy attaching of image nodes to other content types.
Depends on: Image (enabled)
Image Gallery 6.x-1.0-alpha4 Allows sorting and displaying of image galleries based on categories.
Depends on: Image (enabled), Taxonomy (enabled)
Image Import 6.x-1.0-alpha4 Allows batches of images to be imported from a directory on the server.

I want to create an image gallery using the "Image Gallery" module, but instead of having the gallery displayed on it's own page, I'd like to embed & display the gallery in another node.

Join us at the two day Google Summer of Code - Media Shiai/Sprint (Media Ninja Tournament) in Cambridge / Boston (at the Brightcove headquarters) Denver (during DrupalCamp Colorado (and the following Monday at Denver Open Media! Our goal is a Media module Alpha release!

Now that FileField and ImageField have stable releases (both 6.x-3.0), it's time to join forces and integrate ImageField with the WYSIWYG editors our clients love (need) so much. Some projects exist for Image and work very well, many of them plan to support/switch to ImageField at a later stage, and it's just difficult for me to decide which project to help. For you too ? Or are you involved in one of these modules ? Please help by editing this wiki page.

ImageBrowser

http://drupal.org/project/imagefield_crop - An AJAX crop on upload tool for ImageField
http://drupal.org/project/image_fupload - Bulk image uploader (works for ImageField)
http://drupal.org/project/image_import_zip - upload a zip file with images (at the moment only D5)
http://drupal.org/project/imagefield_zip - upload a zip file to an imagefield (D6 only).
http://drupal.org/project/image - has a component to import images
http://drupal.org/project/img_assist - allows upload of images, insert images as content inline

Hi guys,

Been trying to find a solution for this for weeks now and seriously could need some help pointing me in the right direction or at least tell me if this is possible or not.

Hello. I've a problem getting an image attached to a node to appear in it's resized form on my site's front page via a view.

Make sure to attend the Media Sprint Update Panel and join the Media Sprint 2009 at Open Media Camp in Denver, on April 18-19!

The presenters of this panel, including Aaron Winborn (aaron), Arthur Foelsche (arthurf), and Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg (Alex UA), will discuss the ongoing efforts of the Media Sprint by the Drupal Media working group to bring to fruition the Media module and related work.

This panel will begin with a demonstration and discussion of the current state of the ongoing development of the Media module, and a thorough examination of the concept for its extensible API. Finally, we'll discuss the near and far-term plans, including the Media Sprint planned for the next day of the Open Media Camp.

I am working on a site where I will use the content profile to let members create a node based profile.

I have been trying to find a module to handle an associated gallery for each profile, where the member can upload images to their own gallery. The closest I have fond so far seems to be Node Gallery, but it is still in alpha only.

I have also looked at Node Images, but since that is not storing images as nodes using a workflow will be more or less impossible.

This will be a progress report for the ongoing Media Sprint, for the Media Module, including How You Can Get Involved™!

Note this immediately follows 8Tracks & Emfield.

Where
We're using Dojo's Dimdim - click this link at the time of the session.

When: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 4:00 PM (EST)

I have a request for a UI element if someone wants to make or find a GPL compliant icon set for the Media module. Here's the issue.

We need to have a spinner "progress" indicator (which should just be something that spins, as it's not true percentage complete, just a spinner telling us the upload is in progress). Then a checkbox or something to display when the upload is complete. Something similar to how YouTube does it. (I can attach screenshots of that if someone needs.)

Thanks,
Aaron

I am trying to create an image gallery similar to Galleria: http://devkick.com/lab/galleria/demo_01.htm#img/grass-blades.jpg

I have a node type that has an Imagefield with multiple values. I use Contemplate to override the node output. I have the bottom part of the above example figured out: I use JCarousel where I place the thumbnails. Now what I don't have is a simple method that changes the main image when a thumbnail is clicked.

I am using Imagefield + ImageCache combination. Using code like this:

... I can get the HTML to show the image in a given preset. In my case however, I need to get only the path to the image, not the formatted tag. How can I do that?

In this installment of Media Ninja class, we will learn how to create a provider file for Embedded Media Field. We'll use Hulu.com as our example provider.

Learning Goals

• Overview of Embedded Media Field
• Creating a custom Module for Drupal
• Drupal's system of module hooks
• Creating basic regex patterns

Where

Contents

• What is the Media module?
• What is a stream?
• What is a wrapper?
• What is a PHP Stream?
• What is the Media project?
• Where can I find the Media project?
• Why do we need the Media project?
• Will the Media module support displaying multimedia files?
• What modules will support Media module?
• Who is working on the Media module?
• When can I use the Media module?
• What can I do to help?
• Is the Media module going to be in core?
• What functionality will the Media module support out of the box?

Anyone interested in creating a logo for the new Media group? Maybe Druplicon with a painter's smock and brush? Or a multi-color pixellated Druplicon? Or a video/image/music note montage swirling around Druplicon? Or ... ?

The following is the current list of Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions on the white boards near the registration tables at Drupalcon DC that relate to Media. The list will certainly change over the week. Sessions relating to Media have been tagged on delicious. Please feel free to add those missing sessions! (This page is a wiki).

I have a content type "Gallery", which has an imagefield with multiple images allowed. When my gallery is displayed, I would like to have:
1) The current (single) image displayed in larger size (proper imagecache preset used)
2) A strip of thumbnails below, that show all (or some of) the images in the imagefield so that the viewer can select from them.

Here is an example that has exactly this functionality (Coppermine gallery):
http://coppermine-gallery.net/demo/cpg14x/displayimage.php?album=random&...

Can this be done with imagefield? Any suggestions?

hi.
we just upgraded from 4.7 to 6. very happy with D6 UI and now happy with calendar/views (after some struggling). 2 problems re: images.

1) in 4.7, we used the image module and embedded images using TinyMCE into nodes (events and stories). when i upgraded to 6 (and updated to the latest Image module, none of our image nodes are showing the old images. they are still all there on the server, and i can manually embed them with WSIWYG, but why wont they show up on their own nodes? (i have checked permissions, btw). please help!

The Media Sprint 2009 Wiki has a rough outline, based on an earlier document started by arthurf, but needs some serious fleshing out. I plan to begin working in earnest again on the sprint later next week and the following (am trying to slot 3-4 solid working days towards it).

There are also several volunteers who have offered to help over the coming weeks as well. We need to try to build some organization.

I am immensely interested in getting a rock-solid asset management system in place for Drupal 6, and my company is willing to pay for the work involved (my time spent). The purpose of this discussion is to 1) make sure that my assessment of the situation is accurate / common and 2) to make sure that whatever I come up with will be relatively forward-compatible with D7.

I am a convert from Wordpress and am struggling to get a grasp of how to handle images here on Drupal. I'd love to participate in the discussion. At one point, before an major upgrade, I had a great recipe for images on the Wordpress side of things. I'd like to share this and see if I'm missing some modules or tricks that I haven't found yet, or if some of my desires don't mesh with the Drupal way and have some future pitfalls lurking.

My recipe was as so:
1. At content creation images can be uploaded, browsed and manipulated. (Accomplished with IMCE. Love it!)

Drupal is a powerful tool for building amazingly scalable websites quickly and simply. The use of multimedia in Drupal has posed challenges to many users and developers of all abilities. Drupal Multimedia addresses the main questions regarding how to implement video, image, and audio content in a way that is elegant for the developer, as well as the end user. The language of the book is straight to the point, and provides a framework to practice building an assortment of multimedia sites using a variety of modules in the context of test or example sites.

I am have a slight problem with using views to display thumbnails. I've set my views to display a thumbnail image on a block when I load up a story. However, if I choose not to use a thumbnail then a red x appears in the block only in IE7 when I publish the content. Please take a look here in IE7 http://www.l2pnet.com/news Is there a work around that I can do to stop this from happening on IE7?

Hi,

I need to create a very simple image gallery (see attachment).
I just want to show the thumbnails and the original image in the same page, so when the visitor click on the thumbnail the image is showed.
I have created a node with an image field with CCK, so the user can upload in the node as many images he wants.
Now I am struggling to get the layout I want.

Please could someone point me in the right direction.

Thank to everyone.

Media Code Sprint and Media Module Specifications

Table of contents

1. Introduction
2. Road map and Time Line
3. Use Cases
4. API Description
5. $item structure
6. Wireframes
7. Deliverables
8. Timeline
9. Risks
10. Resources

Introduction

One of the most frequently asked questions in Drupal's forums is how to create image galleries. Quite often the questions are about user-managed galleries but because they are not asked in a clear way, they usually get answers that are not useful. A number of solutions exist that can help the site administrator or editor set up a gallery but so far I haven't seen one complete native Drupal 6 solution that can handle user-managed galleries. Acidfree is probably the only one but it is far from ready for D6.

May be this question (in one form or another) has been asked before but I couldn't find an answer. It boils down again to image handling in Drupal. Here is the situation:

1) I have a picture node type build using CCK+Imagefield+Imagecache. My users can upload pictures ONLY this way (no free-standing image uploads).

2) I have a node type with a text field for writing stories. Let's call it a blog.

3) I want my users to be able to insert some pictures of their choice in the blog as inline images.

Hi
I am trying to show the thumbnail images in a custom form's edit mode. I followed the instructions in http://drupal.org/node/53621 though i have multiple images in the custom form which looks like

$form['pictureupload1'] = array(
'#type' => 'file',
'#title' => t('Upload Image 1'),
'#size' => 48,
'#description' => t('The Image 1 in the banner.'),
//'#required' => TRUE
);

$form['pictureupload2'] = array(
'#type' => 'file',
'#title' => t('Upload Image 2'),
'#size' => 48,
'#description' => t('The Image 2 in the banner.'),
//'#required' => TRUE

I'm still not completely set on my own Futureproof choices yet, but as I've been doing my research over the past few weeks I feel I've learned a lot and I've been taking decent notes, so I figure it's time to give back a bit.

I'm starting to put together an Overview of Image-handling in Drupal Handbook section targeted at fellow noobies, not just giving my opinions but helping them figure out how to choose their modules based on their needs.

(Note: I have moved the contents of this node to a sub-page of the http://drupal.org/community-initiatives/drupal-core section: http://drupal.org/node/361854 - webchick)

I took the time to rewrite the Wysiwyg (Editor) module into a generic API over the weekend. So the primary concerns about TinyMCE-specific code all over the module are eliminated now. Also, you might have noticed, that I have added an example integration for FCKeditor already - which of course is rather a proof of concept than a fully-fledged integration (and it works cleanly 8).

So Wysiwyg has become a real API finally.

Hello-
I need a module much like Mugshot which captures images from a webcam and places them in a gallery. Mugshot doesn't support CCK or Views and that's really what I need.

I am building a website and have come far along, but I need the following:
-A module (Mugshot) to be customized or based off to work with CCK, Views, User Profile
-Help Getting the "Social Networking Community" part of the site set up correctly (Organic Groups, Buddylist, etc)
-Help getting a Flex/Air app to be able to add nodes and comments to my site from remote locations (I'm having trouble with Logging In).

From reading the many posts on the topic of images its obvious that drupal needs some work.

I am a newbie to drupal although I have implemented a template on a drupal backend www.klainc.ca

I have a background in custom software development in the Industrial Automation & Integration field. Experience in VB & ASP.NET, MsSQL Server and lately I have been working my way in to Web Design/Development using PHP & MySQL with Drupal.

I also have great love of photography and if could find a way to make money at it I would do it full time.

Currently, Embedded Media Field has Embedded Thumbnail, which allows editors to override the thumbnails provided by third party providers. I originally just copied some code from Image Field to handle it, after toying with (and rejecting) the idea of creating some sort of generic image handling api to help modules needing the functionality.

I am prototyping my first Drupal site using 5.10, and have spent 40+ hours researching the many ways of posting images - or at least the top dozen mainstream methods (yes fellow noobs everyone feels your pain on this!)

I want to have a single standard workflow for uploading/attaching/displaying all images on the site, so that I have both maximum flexibility now and protection against the coming changes in how Drupal (core?) will handle them - I don't want to have to do complex data conversions later on, or God forbid manual editing of old nodes.

I would like to setup a new content type to hold an image at the front page.
The image should go into the top middle column of a free-columns theme.

The image needs to be updated about twice a week, preferably without any text around it. The image itself contains a designed title related to other events at the time.

I thought of using an image node, and a front page view to show the most recent image at any time.

Has anybody ever implemented anything similar ?
Any idea, as to what modules to use, etc?

If the image size is dynamically adjusted, it's obviously even better.

I would neet to set up an image gallery. There seems to be a lot of options and I'm a bit confused which way to go. I'm looking for a solution that could be set up quite fast and I only need basic options (image descriptions would be nice though and a decent way of viewing the images). So, I think that excludes integration with gallery2.

Any tips?

What do you think about this: http://blip.tv/file/256997

Thanks!

I've been doing some thinking about the future of the asset module. First of all, I'm completely dedicated to bringing it to Drupal 6 and beyond. What is not sure however is in which form it will move forward. With the improved hook_form and specifically with filefield and emfield tying into the youtube api, flvmediaplayer, the new media player et al, I certainly don't want to duplicate efforts. The asset module itself is quite a big project and maintaining it requires a lot of my time.

That's why I've been thinking lately of stripping the asset module down to the asset wizard: leaving the uploading of files to the *field modules (having the admin decide which modules he prefers and what type of files he needs) and managing them with the asset wizard. The asset wizard could be taken so much further if it could get all the attention it deserves. One thing I could use help on is the interface from a usability perspective: both on the asset wizard itself and on how to tie it in the different fields (filefield, emfield, ...) and editors (TinyMCE, WYSIWYG, ...). Everything is welcome: from concepts and wireframes to mock-ups and patches.

How do you want to handle the files and embedded media that have been already been imported by media mover, uploaded by filefield or integrated by emfield?

I just posted a sneak-peak of the upcoming Drupal Media Player!

It's still a little rough on the edges, but should be a suitable replacement for JW Flash Media Player and Wimpy when it's done (although the module will handle those as well, if someone just doesn't want the best).

As announced, we've begun the Media Code Sprint to put better media handling into Drupal core!

It's been a great time so far. In the morning, drewish compiled a file function guessing game (free beer!), and andreiashu took the bait and completed the first round with great feedback about how unusable the current state is.

Next, we've sat down and begun writing SimpleTests for the hook_file patch. This has been great fun for me personally; though drewish is an old hand at building tests, this is completely new for me. And to top it off, webchick, Queen of Drupal testing, dropped by our table and got involved!

Even the process of writing tests has been helpful; we found at least one case for validation that had been missed in the original patch, and drewish decided that file_scan_directory needed refactoring. (He's currently chasing other problems as well, and cursing about finding himself going down rabbit holes.)

There's more fun to be had for all! If you want a quick 15 minute task that everyone is qualified to do, go play the File API Function Guessing Game. If you want to do more, then ping me (aaronwinborn), drewish, or dopry at #drupal in IRC, or leave a comment here!

(Cross-posted at AaronWinborn.com.)

As part of the Media/Files Code Sprint we're trying to re-evaluate the mess of badly named functions in file.inc. When we were discussing it on IRC, clouseau pointed out that it's been a popular drinking game at DrupalCon for a few years.

Take a look at each item in the list and make a guess about what you think each function does based solely on the name--to make this a fair fight I'm even giving you the parameter names--then look at the documentation and see how you did.

Please leave comments telling us which were the easiest to guess and which functions totally puzzled you. This is a big list so feel free to comment even if you don't make it all the way through.

The Media Code Sprint is underway! Here's a cross-post from my blog detailing the goals of this sprint, which runs through Saturday. We need your help!

Andrew Morton (drewish), Darrel O'Pry (dopry, remotely), and I are heading up a Media Code Sprint in Portland this week! Come help, in person or remotely, if you're interested in multimedia and Drupal! It has now officially started, and as I've volunteered to help keep folks updated, here goes...

First the reasons.

Number One: Better Media Handling in Core

Dries conducted a survey prior to his State of Drupal presentation at Boston Drupalcon 2008, and number one on the top ten (or 11) list of what would make THE KILLER DRUPAL 7 Release was "Better media handling".

Let me repeat that. Better media handling.

People have done really amazing stuff in contrib, but it is difficult (if not impossible in many cases) for developers to coordinate the use of files, as there is no good means for file handling in the core of Drupal. Thus, we have several dozen (or more) media modules doing some small part, or even duplicating functionality, sometimes out of necessity.

We need (better) media and file handling in Drupal core. In particular, there has been a patch for a hook_file in the queue for over a year, which has been in the Patch Spotlight (for the second time, no less) since May! (And has been RTBC several times during that process...) Come on folks.

One of the powers of Drupal is its system of hooks. We have hooks to modify nodes, to notify changes to user objects, to alter nearly any data (such as forms and menus). Noticeably absent is a consistent handling for files or any sort of notification. We need hook_file.

So goal Number One: get media handling in core. The means? Add hook_file and make files into a 1st class Drupal object. We'll be creating a test suite for functionality in the hook_file patch to validate it and "grease the wheels" to get it committed.

The other goals of this sprint pale in comparison to the first in utility, but are still highly desirable and worthwhile.

Number Two: Refactor File Functionality in Core

Dopry's hacking away at HEAD on filefield and imagefield. I'm trying to do some running QA on it to spot issues.

A few variations I'm trying to make sure I test:

• Single, Multi, Unlimited value fields
• All the formatters

From the MAQUM (Metadata Aware Quick Upload Module) project page:

MAQUM is short for Metadata Aware Quick Upload Module. MAQUM works with (and relies upon) Drupal's image module to upload images. Instead of uploading an image directly with the image module, upload an image through MAQUM and MAQUM will process your image's metadata and create your image node. ExifTool must be installed on your server as MAQUM requires it to read your images' metadata.

Started out as a push from couzinhub to create an Ajax powered image gallery module, an IRC chat was started on June 16th, and has turned into a chat on tools that may be used, as well as different methods for creating image galleries.

Not sure where it is headed, but if you have some ideas to share, join the recurring event on IRC, drupal-image on freenode at 11am PST Mondays.

The blog post on Drupaltherapy
Hosted on Blip

This screencast demonstrates the recipe for Imagecache and Imagefield (for CCK) to build a system for posting images on your Drupal website. This is a robust and flexible system for handling images and has a bright future with more helper modules born every day.

This micro-lesson depends on prior understanding of the CCK module and the Views module. This example uses Drupal 5 since the Image* modules for Drupal 6 are not available (yet).

I have "ImageMagick Advanced Options" installed. I go to "site configuration => Image toolkit".

it said "No image toolkits found. Drupal will use PHP's built-in GD library for image handling." I should have imagemagick installed. dont know why no image toolkits found. I remember other web applications you need to specify the imagemagick path. do I have to do the same thing here? if i do, where I am supposed to go to put the path in. please help me out. really appreciate your help.

I'm declaring the week of OSCON as a media and files code sprint in Portland Oregon.