>> 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:334274 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
