Whether or not I would use them somewhere else is yet to be determined really. I did like having the non-watermarked versions just incase though, or if I wanted to change the watermark, all I had to do was upload a new watermark.png.
I'm sure I'll end up with a mix of everything. It just won't be on the fly. Steven's suggestion was something I considered; once the image's turn comes around, if it hasn't been watermarked, do so, save it, display it. This way I still have an original and a watermarked. Then, if I decide to change the watermark, I can just upload a new one and call some backend process to batch watermark them again. The downside is obviously that it isn't all just "magic" and that I'll be storing doubles. The upside is, I won't have to keep up with a masthead.psd file for when I want to change the watermark :-) Again, thanks for all the input and ideas. -----Original Message----- From: UXB Internet [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 1:51 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: imageRead plus imagepaste plus imageGetBlob issue >> You are right though, I am most likely headed to a solution that involves >> watermarking the images permanently. If the images are never going to be used on the site without a watermark then you will save substantial processing time by doing so. We have a website that allows people to upload a picture which we mark, then they can caption them aka lolcats.com style. So a particular image could have many different captions marked on it. When I first designed it all watermarks were on the fly but after a few days of testing I found I was bogging the server down with extensive processing even though as you say there was a satisfaction of the magic behind it. Now instead we mark the images once and save copies and reference them. It takes up more space but hard drive space was a lot cheaper than more processing power. You can see it here: http://www.lameorgame.com Dennis Powers UXB Internet - A Website Design & Hosting Company P.O. Box 6028 Wolcott, CT 06716 203-879-2844 http://www.uxbinternet.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:334294 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
