Hi Randy, > 1. Has/Does anyone designed / maintain a photography website that > uploads photos? > If yes, do you convert the original or does the client?
Not photography sites directly, but sites where image quality is extremely important. Like you, our users were not extremely technical, so we had to do the image conversion for them. > 2. If you convert the photo for the client do you use Alagad, another > web graphics tag, or do you use Adobe Fireworks/Photoshop and convert it > before you upload? This is a topic that comes up more often then it should. ;) The graphics libraries that the JVM uses are based on what's on the system. If you're on a windows machine, then the JVM uses windows libraries to process the image. If the JVM is on a linux machine, then it uses the libraries from Xorg. Either way, I've never been terribly impressed with the image quality that java produces. However, I *have* been impressed with the image quality that PHP produces. PHP uses the GD libraries to do it's image processing. Come to find out, other languages, such as perl, also use the GD libraries for their image processing. It's a great library and does a wonderful job at retaining quality. With this, and the knowledge that I could run PHP code from the command-line, I wrote a PHP script that I could pass the image off to and have the image scaled using the GD libraries. This process has worked really well for us for a long time. We occasionally need to make some changes to the PHP settings in order to accommodate really large images, but in general it works wonderfully for us. On that note, I know Adobe has done some things with image processing in CF8. The quality may have improved since I ran my tests. I haven't had a chance to examine this particular feature of CF8 though. > 3. The client basically does not want to do any computer work but take > their photos from the CD, put them on the website, and them be as crisp > and have the 2 sizes available for the customers. > How would you handle it? (They do not want to pay to have someone to > upload the photos for them. they want it done automatically). > > Thoughts / Suggestions?? If CF8 doesn't do it for you, or is not an option. I'd look into a PHP or Perl script that you can execute from the command line that will use a different set of image processing libraries in order to get a better result. I'd happily share my php script with you if you'd like - but you will almost certainly need to update your server settings in order to accommodate those large images. Are you hosted on a VPS by chance? Hope this helps! Warm regards, Jordan Michaels Vivio Technologies http://www.viviotech.net/ BlueDragon Alliance Member [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72&catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:285530 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
