On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 7:09:05 PM UTC, Adam Wong wrote: > > I'm working on an idea and I was wondering if it was even possible... > > We are frequentlly tweaking images as the style of our website changes. > Usually we need to slightly alter the color of a layer in the image so that > it matches our css. This means editing an image in photoshop, making the > change and then exporting to jpeg. This process gets old very fast. What > I'd like to do is to save those images in a raw format and precompile them > in the same way I precompile my other assets. > > Example:* logo.jpeg.rb* precompiles to *logo.jpeg*, where the > logo.jpeg.rb is a ruby script that modifies a layered image file _logo.tiff > (or perhaps _logo.psd) using RMagick. In this example, _logo.tiff is the > "raw" image, logo.jpeg.rb is the script which processes _logo.tiff and > which is replaced by logo.jpeg after pre compilation. The end result is a > dynamic image- a logo whose colors change to match our css. > > Is this even possible? >
I'm not sure exactly how, but given that you can add pipeline items to compress css, run pngcrush on images etc, I would have thought you could define your own processing which would do the image transformation you require. Fred -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/cYR41adLzdwJ. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
