Thanks, the solution worked as pasted! attachment_fu guys are working on cropper script for users being able to select the part to be thumbnailed, hope it will come soon.
Till then should this solution be part of CE?, I am sure everybody does have this problem. On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 2:06 AM, sprite <[email protected]> wrote: > > Override in the photos model > > # Anchor image resizing to top to avoid cutting off heads! > def resize_image(img, size) > size = size.first if size.is_a?(Array) && size.length == 1 && ! > size.first.is_a?(Fixnum) > if size.is_a?(Fixnum) || (size.is_a?(Array) && size.first.is_a? > (Fixnum)) > img.crop_resized!(size, size, Magick::NorthGravity) > else > img.change_geometry(size.to_s) { |cols, rows, image| > image.crop_resized!(cols, rows, Magick::NorthGravity) > } > end > self.temp_path = write_to_temp_file(img.to_blob) > end > > On Feb 14, 7:54 am, Bruno Bornsztein <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I think there's a 'gravity' setting you can pass: > > > > > http://www.imagemagick.org/RMagick/doc/imageattrs.html#gravityhttp://www.imagemagick.org/RMagick/doc/imusage.html#geometry > > > > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Sachin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > When someone uploads image with height greater than(almost twice) the > > > width, the thumbnail generated points to the center of the image, > > > which misses the face, as mostly face will be in upper portion of the > > > image. > > > I know that having a image cropper javascript for allowing users to > > > select portion for thumbnail would be a bigger task, but if we could > > > quickfix or hack a solution of generating thumbnail with upper portion > > > of the image with rmagick/image-magick that would be great. > > > > > I tried finding any settings/config about rmagick/imagemagick but was > > > not successful. > > > > > Has anyone tried this? > > > > > Please point me to correct direction. > > > > > Thanks, > > > Sachin > > > -- Sachin Kale --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CommunityEngine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/communityengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
