Re: Images and Watermarks?

2006-12-05 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 15:33, Greg Luce wrote: > image on each request. Just when a user uploads an image, store the > original, create a thumbnail, and create a resized version for use on the > site and apply a watermark to it. ImageMagic works wonderfully for that. For instance, aye. -- T

Re: Images and Watermarks?

2006-12-05 Thread Claude Schneegans
>>I am curious as how you can add a watermark to an image without having to create a new image. See CFX_StampImage here : http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/stampImage/testStamp.cfm -- ___ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See http://www.contentbox.com/cl

Re: Images and Watermarks?

2006-12-05 Thread Greg Luce
Oh I see what you're saying. I've never run into a reason to watermark an image on each request. Just when a user uploads an image, store the original, create a thumbnail, and create a resized version for use on the site and apply a watermark to it. ImageMagic works wonderfully for that. Greg On

Re: Images and Watermarks?

2006-12-05 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 14:36, Andy Matthews wrote: > But then they're no longer "new" for each request. You can't have it both > ways. You'd only want them 'new' if you wanted the current time stamped on them, and I can't see a use case for that right now. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to heter

RE: Images and Watermarks?

2006-12-05 Thread Andy Matthews
But then they're no longer "new" for each request. You can't have it both ways. -Original Message- From: Tom Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 8:17 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Images and Watermarks? On Tuesday 05 December 2006 13

Re: Images and Watermarks?

2006-12-05 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 13:53, Rick Root wrote: > so if you were on a busy web site, watermarking the images on the fly > *ALL* the time... you'd be doing a lot of completely unnecessary work. Well, yes, you'd cache them somewhere :-) -- Tom Chiverton Helping to appropriately maximize turn-k

Re: Images and Watermarks?

2006-12-05 Thread Rick Root
Greg Luce wrote: > ImageMagic does this just brilliantly. I've done it on a fairly large scale. > I'm curious Rick, why would it not "scale" well? Watermarking an image is a lot more CPU intensive than just pullling an existing image off the file system. so if you were on a busy web site, waterm

Re: Images and Watermarks?

2006-12-05 Thread Greg Luce
ImageMagic does this just brilliantly. I've done it on a fairly large scale. I'm curious Rick, why would it not "scale" well? Greg On 12/5/06, Rick Root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 05 December 2006 10:42, Coldfusion wrote: > > I am curious as how you can add a watermark to an image

Re: Images and Watermarks?

2006-12-05 Thread Rick Root
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 10:42, Coldfusion wrote: > I am curious as how you can add a watermark to an image without > having to create a new image. I'm sure you could, but why would you want to? Watermarking an image with every request would not scale very well. You could "cache" watermark

Re: Images and Watermarks?

2006-12-05 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 12:26, Katz, Dov B (IT) wrote: > The only company I've seen which can do this is > http://www.photags.com/activewatermarks.htm Way to not be cross platform. I guess they're making use of the fact JPEG can contain meta data regions. The system is still weak because I can

RE: Images and Watermarks?

2006-12-05 Thread Katz, Dov B \(IT\)
The only company I've seen which can do this is http://www.photags.com/activewatermarks.htm -Original Message- From: Tom Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 7:20 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Images and Watermarks? On Tuesday 05 December 2006

Re: Images and Watermarks?

2006-12-05 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 10:42, Coldfusion wrote: > I am curious as how you can add a watermark to an image without having to > create a new image. Can't be done reliably- you have to create a watermarked version and keep the original. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to assertively brand second-gen

RE: Images and Watermarks?

2006-12-05 Thread Coldfusion
! -Original Message- From: Coldfusion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 5:35 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Images and Watermarks? I am curious as how you can add a watermark to an image without having to create a new image. Like some of the photo sites have images and when they

Images and Watermarks?

2006-12-05 Thread Coldfusion
I am curious as how you can add a watermark to an image without having to create a new image. Like some of the photo sites have images and when they are enlarged, you see the watermark but if you purchase it is gone. Any pointers? ~~~