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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Sorry, I was too quick
Somehow I managed to forget to check properly that it actually works. It doesn't. Sorry.
The only case where it actually works is when you make a change to the image_enhanced_scaling settings form. Then it will rebuild all existing derivatives with the new settings. So if you're interested in how the images will look you can find out this way.
However, I wouldn't recommend that you use it while adding or editing images on a live site as two derivatives will be created for each size – one sharpened and one not sharpened. The one that is not sharpened will be linked to the node. No real harm in that, but you'll end up with duplicate files in your images directory.
I hope to solve this soon, so please check back later!
/ Hannes Lilljequist – SthlmConnection
Can't wait. This is really
Can't wait. This is really cool.
New version
I made a new version that seems to work fine – I think I did my homework this time. Check it out!
image_enhanced_scaling-beta2.tgz
I'm updating the original post with the new version.
/ Hannes Lilljequist – SthlmConnection
Project added
You can now download this module from it's project page!
/ Hannes Lilljequist – SthlmConnection