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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.

I just posted my outline and UI design for a new image gallery module to Drupal on the Raincity Studios blog. It uses CCK, imagefield, and imagecache, and has both galleries and images as nodes.

I'm looking for feedback on the idea, and to see if people are interested in having this built, either through a reverse bounty or some other method.

Hello,

I'm hesitating to choose image module for my online newspaper. It's rather large one, which tens posts everyday (and I'm sure there'll be about 100 posts from members everyday soon). Each post contains 1-2 images. There should be a few galleries embedded in certain posts.

I have now two solutions to start with:

• img_filter (http://drupal.org/project/img_filter): use Upload to create attachment for node, simple and light. But I don't know if it's possible to embed one image into multiple posts (for instance, some logo).

Searching has always been a very important issue in any Photo Gallery Application/Image databases .People post different kind of pictures related to things they are passionate about and this creates a big Image database .Such sites using Drupal's labeler will benefit in search results . But searches also have to depend on the labels assigned to the images which are usually set,when they are added to the database .

I've written a module, Image Overlay, to allow users to "draw" shapes on images with JQuery UI & canvas, and save the result as an image node. (Try it out.) Shapes are draggable and resizable. I've kind of stalled at this point, and could use some help, so I think I'll be applying as a student. I think this module could provide very useful tool to many drupal sites, including social sites (photos), techinical sites (notes & schematics), educational sites (maps, historical battleplans), and many others I haven't yet thought of.

My proposal is to expand and update Image Overlay:
EDITED to update timeline, show tables and added image of control and links to screenshots. EDITED on March 29th 1:15pm EDT, to add mockups.

The imagecache module is awesome now but it has only 3 actions: scale, resize and crop. My proposal for SoC is use imagecache 2.0 and the hook_imagecache_action (http://www.darrelopry.com/story/imagecache-2x-beta) to create new actions like:

• Watermark
• Rounded corners
• Borders
• Insert text
• Insert image
• Rotate
• And so on

There are a lot of new possible actions, you can go to imagemagick options for more action examples: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php

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As some of you know, I've recently taken over maintenance of Inline and Image Assist, and initiated the Wysiwyg project. That was not only caused by personal interest, but also to take the necessary steps to realize the long awaited Inline API. You might ask yourself, what those three modules have in common or to do with each other at all: They deal with user input, allow to embed complex contents into a content, and provide an interactive GUI for that. If you already had the chance to work with them, you already know that there is a rather hidden, non-obvious hard-dependency between them.

Although I'd really like to discuss both topics (Inline and Wysiwyg support) separately, the gained experience on these topics enforces us to discuss them concurrently. The following mockup hopefully explains why: (see attachment to view in full size)

See preview attached, the FUTURE ajaxy image field module that we should create.

Functionality :

• Ajax upload, like the upload module, no need to reload the page
• possibility to choose a FEATURED image, to select which image should be displayed when in a teaser.

• like image field, possibility to change alt text and title.
  > add a CAPTION FIELD ??

• possibility to re-arrange the order of the images by clicking on the UP and DOWN arrows.
  > Maybe even better with a DRAG AND DROP interface to re-arrange the order of the image !

You might be interested to know about a new view type that's now included in the image module: an image gallery view for image nodes.

This is in the latest 5.x-2.x-dev release of image. Existing galleries and blocks are reimplemented as views.