At its core, image handling also deals with files, so the FileAPI SIG will have content of related interest.
A few of the image handling items to discuss include: file storage, derivatives (thumbnails, resizing), image manipulation (cropping, watermarking, etc.), galleries, CCK image node.
Now available: better control over ImageMagick operations
Image Enhanced Scaling is dead – long live ImageMagick Advanced Options! Yes, the Long Module Names Movement is back with longer names than ever before!
As of Octover 10, Image module comes with a new contributed module: ImageMagick Advanced Options. This is good news for anyone who needs fine-grained control over their images in Drupal, such as photographers or managers of image archives – regardless of wheter they use Image module or not. This post describes how it came into existence and why you should use it.
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Embedded Media Import
Embedded Media Field now ships with Embedded Media Import, for importing photosets, playlists, and the like. If you install that module, admins will have the ability to import photosets from Flickr as individual nodes. Just make sure the 'Allow import' checkbox on the content type (which must have a field defined with Embedded Media Field) is checked, proper permissions are given to editors, and look at the settings on the new tab at /admin/content/emfield/import.
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image in core - from a users perspective
Hey people
ive just posted a wishlist for the image in core, that walkah were talking bout at the drupalcon barcelona.
i thought it would be a good idea to share this - so we can figure out what we want in this "imageincoreoneandforall" :)
link to the original post at my blog: http://morten.dk/node/174
flickr screens: http://flickr.com/photos/mortendk/tags/drupalimagesincorewishlist/
its still a working draft so spelling errors missing stuff etc ... ;)
Dear Walkah - the wishlist for images in core
original post http://morten.dk/node/174/
Views Slideshow
I just added a new slideshow mode to the Views Slideshow module. You can see a demo at Drupal Hub. It uses JQuery and views, so any type of view could be made into a slideshow. The current modes are single frame, as seen in the left sidebar of the demo page, and with 'thumbnails' as shown on the content of that page.
I also revamped the themes for it, making it easier to theme specific elements of the slideshow.
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Image Picker: A better image upload module
I was frustrated with all the modules I found for uploading images so I designed my own based on the Wordpress image upload but with some improvements. I haven't signed up for a CVS account yet but will do so shortly and add it to the modules available for download. For now you can read about my image upload module and see screenshots and its available for download.
Let me know what you think!
BTW, this module is for 5.xx only.
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per user paths
Hi all,
i'm going to implement a public site that will offer to the user that register a personal gallery. I use the image module but i find that i can't get a personal image folder on the server (all the files are stored in the folder you choose in filesystem settings). I have to modify the image module? other way to get personal upload folders?
I have already created a function to get the per user upload folder in image_import.module with the following code, but i think pheraps there would be a better way to go...
function _get_image_import_path() {
global $user;
Making the image module not suck
Much like the event module, the image module has slowly gained a reputation as a crap module. I've been working for the last few months to turn that around, first working my way through the the issue queue closing a couple hundred issues, then by trying to fix bugs and implement some of the many, repeated calls for features (like being able to have images opened in a new window). If you're curious, you can read through the release notes to see what I've been up to.
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Eyedrop makes an appearance
I am just working away on a site and Eyedrop decided to start working for some reason. So I made a video of the rare moment!
http://emspace.com.au/node/47
What should we rename Neighborhood CCK to? (See http://groups.drupal.org/node/4664 for discussion)
Neighborhood CCK
The newly released Neighborhood CCK module will take the place of Video CCK, replacing that module and expanding it with Video Neighborhood, Image Neighborhood, and the upcoming Audio Neighborhood.
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Eye-drop Editor is finally seeing some light. This is a jquery/ajaxy image editor that integrates with server-side image manipulation.
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I'm currently revising the inline.module to integrate with CCK. Please let me know if there's already work in place that does this type of thing (handling inline uploaded images in cck fields). img_attach won't work for this application -- too many steps involved, and we want the images uniquely associated with the node, rather than as a separate image node.
I'll update here with any patch(es) I submit.
Thanks,
Aaron
New module: better quality of scaled images!
I just finished a simple but powerful module that really improves the quality of thumbnails and preview images. It adds a touch of sharpening and converts all derivative images to a color profile of your choice (such as sRGB). This is especially useful if you're using "professional" color profiles such as AdobeRGB since colors often look faded with those profiles if the browser isn't color profile aware.
I know people have been doing sharpening and stuff like this before in Drupal, but I don't think there is a module that does it for you, without patches... until now! All you need besides image.module is ImageMagick.
I haven't uploaded this to CVS yet, 'cause I was hoping that some of you would like to try it out and give me some feedback. Bad spelling, bad name, fundamental flaws? Good stuff? Let me know!
Update: Project added: image_enhanced_scaling
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Image Gallery Per User
Does anyone know an easy way to create a gallery per user?
There is the arbitrary "My Images" which gets all the image for the current user, but I'd like to extend that to allow image_pub to sandbox users into their own sets of galleries.
Dirty hack here might be a way forward - http://drupal.org/node/86489 but its pretty dirty....
Before I start hacking around and making a mess of things, does anyone have any pointers or ideas?
Thanks,
-Mack
DHTML image cropping
On the dev list Adrian posted a link to a DHTML cropping tool.
http://www.speedingrhino.com/cropper.htm
I have been aware of this for a while, as I have a similar tool which I created before I came to Drupal. My goal has been to bring this into drupal, but the reality is I have a lot to learn about the drupal way first.
http://urbits.com/_/demos/insizer_demo_page4.php
(Click the clown)
Another file API conception
Some people suggested that every module should handle files by itself. I am for a central storage of file information, though. This has several advantages such as being able to get a quick overview on all files, re-use files elsewhere and so on.
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