What do you want to do? Re-purpose images, store them, serve them out on the web? We use a combination of Canto Cumulus, and Efflare products.
We use Canto Cumulus to store and database images to easily find them. www.canto.com We use Efflare's imageCR and ImageFlare to re-size, convert, crop images etc and serve them up on the web. www.efflare.com ImageFlare is brand new and was semi-private released on the 27th. I have had a few days to play with it and i love it so far. The full release should happen at the end of the week when the documentation is done. http://www.efflare.com/products/ Here is a link to the demo. http://efflare.com/download/cfx_imageflare_demo_setup.exe They even have a limited time discount on ImageFlare. http://secure.emetrix.com/order/product.asp?PID=668675&DID=1307730&ID=&Q=&DC=ligature I ran some tests today and ImageFlare was able to keep up with AlterCast without breaking a sweat! I input a 23meg RGB TIF and output a 300pixel wide RGB JPG. Altercast did it in 13seconds. Here are ImageFlare's results depending on the resampling method i chose: 0 None - 3 seconds 1 Lanczos3 - 32 seconds 2 Mitchell - 16 seconds (closest to Altercast's image quality vs. speed) 3 Linear - 3 seconds Keep an eye on ImageFlare over the next few weeks. They are always updating their products with new features and i hear they will be adding Spline resampling that should match the Altercast speed if not surpass it. Last Note: Im prepping a proposal for a multi-lingual web site and ImageFlare is going to make my life SOOoooo much easier! Query the database for each language and throw the results into ImageFlare, and gFont to produce excellent custom graphics. Happy Efflare Customer Chad Gray Senior Developer / Image Database Manager Carey Color Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 01:31 PM 5/29/2002 -0400, you wrote: >I'm investigating image servers for Win32. So far, I'm looking at... > >MGI/Roxio Zoom Server >Adobe Altercast >Macromedia Generator > >Can anyone suggest any other image servers that would serve well in an >enterprise environment? >I'll just add those to my research. > > Thanks :) > > Eric > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
