image cropping on upload

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Last Post: November 25, 2012   (RSS)

By kitsguru - November 25, 2012

I know that this is an open feature request but you might want to check out wideimage. It is open source and free to use in commercial products. It can write back to disk or do it on the fly in a viewer.

It has several other useful features as well:
Resize
Crop
Merge (watermark)
Output to browser
Writing a text with a shadow

requires PHP 5.2+ with GD2 extension

http://wideimage.sourceforge.net
Jeff Shields

Re: [kitsguru] image cropping on upload

By gkornbluth - November 25, 2012

Hi Kitsguru,

I'm not a big fan of the idea of mixing CMSB with image manipulation, and prefer using either the free on line editor, Pixlr pixlr.com, or Photoshop, and then involving CMSB after the image is in it's final form, but this is an interesting project.

Glad you came across it.

Jerry Kornbluth
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Re: [gkornbluth] image cropping on upload

By kitsguru - November 25, 2012

We use a 360 tour image that creates an inappropriate thumbnail when uploaded, cropping it on upload for the thumbnails is the only solution in this instance.

Many of my clients are realtors and dont have the, time, skill or inclination to do this step outside of the CMS. The more I can automate for them the better. It would be a set it and forget solution for me.
Jeff Shields