Image Resizing Module on UserVoice

servicestack

2013-02-11T13:55:04-08:00

David Wong suggested:
Is there a way to get imageresizing to work with servicestack?

resize image from byte array at session [updated]

2013-02-04T01:49:51-08:00

There is an article about preview image from byte array at the session. www.charith.gunasekara.web-sphere.co.uk/2010/09/how-to-show-selected-image-file-without.html Can we resize the image from this byte array at the session before save to server. this byte didnt save to db or file yet. it will read from session. is it possible.

nathanael.jones said:

Client-side resizing is both slow and low-quality. Using on a 500KB jpeg is possible, but not a 4-5MB once. I don't know where to point you either; there are a few browser-specific libraries but nothing very usable.

Using session storage for bitmap data is a definite no-no. If you need to scale, you might consider using Amazon S3 with their auto-expire feature set to 24 hours. This way the user will upload directly to S3, and your server will download and process the image exactly once, without waiting on user upload latency, or having to store anything to disk.

resize image from byte array at session [updated]

2013-02-04T00:09:08-08:00

cuneyt said:

Because of web traffic, i want to resize before sending to the server. for example an image that is 4-5 mb is saved to the server and this will scale at server side. i dont use this quality image any more at server after scale and i dont want to pay for bantwidth that i wont use for any profit. is this reasonable? or applicable? maybe there is another sides of issue, i dont know security maybe.
there is clientside image resizing solution but i dont know, i am searching diffirent solution for this.
I asked beacuse of this.
Thanks.

resize image from byte array at session [is now declined]

2013-02-01T08:06:16-08:00

resize image from byte array at session [updated]

2013-02-01T08:05:47-08:00

nathanael.jones said:

What that article suggests is a horrible idea - holding images in memory is neither scalable, sane, stable, or reliable.

What's wrong with temporary files?

While you *can* do that with ImageResizer and an IVirtualImageProvider plugin, I highly recommend against it.

Monokromatic color [updated]

2013-01-31T08:32:49-08:00

Make picture monokromatic in a given color, like grayscale, but in a color by choise. That would be easy to redesign thumbnails and other graphic in a given color acording to a given color theme on a webpage.

nathanael.jones said:

I'm not perfectly sure I understand - it's possible to grayscale based on a color, where the color determines the weight each channel gets..

Or do you mean convert to grayscale, then color overlay? If you can give a few links to examples, it would help a lot.

Reduce costs for single developer [updated]

2013-01-31T07:13:17-08:00

New pricing (Feb 1 2013) raises the cost from roughly $200 for two personal bundles, to $850 for a Elite SKU. I'm a single person that works on a number of personal domains. Paying the single site costs of a "Performance" or "Creative" bundle will force me to abandon imageresizing.net in my projects.

nathanael.jones said:

I would love to support that use case, but I see no way to prevent it from being abused.

Instead of a separate SKU, we're offering heavy discounts on domain licenses for non-profit and open-source websites, but you have to e-mail sales@imageresizing.net to get a code.

Reduce costs for single developer [updated]

2013-01-31T06:57:56-08:00

Nate Jackson said:

Jeesh... I finally found one sentence on the site that says "Resizer Professional: Personal-use license, discontinued on Feb. 1 2013 due to business abuse"

I think there is a case to be made for a hobbyist or someone with a couple of personal domains that they work on. I'd like to see a SKU in the $300 range that gives you the "Performance" plugins that can be used on a reasonable number of personal domains.

Reduce costs for single developer

2013-01-31T06:35:50-08:00

Nate Jackson suggested:
New pricing (Feb 1 2013) raises the cost from roughly $200 for two personal bundles, to $850 for a Elite SKU. I'm a single person that works on a number of personal domains. Paying the single site costs of a "Performance" or "Creative" bundle will force me to abandon imageresizing.net in my projects.

Add API to return image size without loading the image [updated]

2013-01-31T02:02:31-08:00

My application only need to get the width and size of the resulting image for any ImageResizer URL. The purpose is to set the width/size attribute of an <img> tag when rendering a MVC view. In that case, no need for the extra processing cost of loading the image.

Anonymous said:

Should be good also to have the final size AFTER resizing the image. Could not find this information actually

Monokromatic color

2013-01-17T03:08:46-08:00

Brian Kristensen suggested:
Make picture monokromatic in a given color, like grayscale, but in a color by choise. That would be easy to redesign thumbnails and other graphic in a given color acording to a given color theme on a webpage.

Create ImageResizer.Plugins.AzureCDN [is now declined]

2013-01-16T14:18:13-08:00

It can be adapted from the existing CloudFront plugin. web.config: <add name="AzureCDN" /> <azurecdn redirectThrough="https://azxcxcxcxcxcx.vo.msecnd.net" redirectPermanent="false" /> ImageResizer\Plugins\AzureCDN\AzureCDNPlugin.cs: pastebin.com/JjRfhTcd That is basically the CloudFrontPlugin.cs with altered references to web.config, without TransformCloudFrontUrl and with regular querystrings because Azure CDN has no problem with them. ImageResizer\Plugins\AzureReader\AzureReader.cs - needs an extra line: c.Pipeline.RewriteDefaults += new Configuration.UrlRewritingEventHandler(Pipeline_RewriteDefaults); and this: void Pipeline_RewriteDefaults(System.Web.IHttpModule sender, System.Web.HttpContext context, Configuration.IUrlEventArgs e) { //Always request caching for this VPP. Will not override existing values. if (vpp.IsPathVirtual(e.VirtualPath)) e.QueryString["cache"] = ServerCacheMode.Always.ToString(); } Both copied from ImageResizer\Plugins\S3Reader\S3Reader.cs I have this working in my solution

Create ImageResizer.Plugins.AzureCDN [updated]

2013-01-16T14:18:13-08:00

nathanael.jones (admin) responded:

Azure now supports querystring preservation, making this irrelevant.

Create ImageResizer.Plugins.AzureCDN [updated]

2013-01-16T14:17:45-08:00

nathanael.jones said:

Azure CDN now supports querystring preservation, so I don't think this idea is relevant any longer; no plugins are required for Azure or CloudFront when they are configured properly.

Specify a fixed dimension and a maximum for the other dimension [is now completed]

2013-01-16T14:00:13-08:00

Hi there, I had a look at your solution and it looks like exactly what I need to replace some custom code which has caused issues in the past (50% cpu load being image resizing on server). However I cant see how to replicate my functionality of supplying a fixed dimension and a maximum dimension. For example when I want an image to be 200px wide but no more than 400px tall I would use the following. getimage/?id=4&w=200&mh=400 This handler would then... Resize the image to be 200px wide. Then check if the image was over 400px tall If it is > 400px tall resize so it is 400px tall. So in effect it is saying - resize to given width though if the image is still over the maximum height then size on height instead. This is for the edge case when some one may upload an extremely tall or wide image and allows me to prioritize which dimension I would ideally like to fix the image to. Hope this makes sense. Cheers Steve

Specify a fixed dimension and a maximum for the other dimension [updated]

2013-01-16T14:00:13-08:00

nathanael.jones (admin) responded:

This functionality has existed for years with &x&maxY etc.

Add a totalBehavior="404NotFound" option to the sizelimits configuration [updated]

2013-01-16T13:59:11-08:00

Allow a totalBehavior="404NotFound" setting to the sizelimits config. This would allow the server to simply issue a 404 instead of generating an exception. Returning this 404 would be more efficient on the server side than throwing an exception.

nathanael.jones said:

Actually, 404s are generally caused by exceptions, and in this instance, an exception would be the only exit path.

Other than saving 1/20th of a millisecond, would there be another benefit to this behavior?

stackoverflow.com/questions/161942/how-slow-are-net-exceptions

Dual license everything under the AGPL [is now declined]

2013-01-16T13:56:16-08:00

A lot of companies seem to be dual-licensing libraries under the GPL or AGPL - not the LGPL. Frankly, it seems kind of useless, as few websites are willing to release the entire site's code. Maybe I'm wrong - vote if you have a website who is AGPL licensed in its entirety (or is willing to be), and could actually take advantage of having the ImageResizer dual-licensed under the AGPL. If 10 people vote for this issue (roughly 20 votes), I'll do the work to offer this as a licensing option.

Dual license everything under the AGPL [updated]

2013-01-16T13:56:16-08:00

nathanael.jones (admin) responded:

Closing after a year and a half - only two users voted for it.

add webp support [is now completed]

2013-01-16T13:55:22-08:00

https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/

add webp support [updated]

2013-01-16T13:55:21-08:00

https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/

nathanael.jones (admin) responded:

WebP support is now complete: imageresizing.net/plugins/webp

A separate library, Imazen.WebP, was created to make a generic wrapper for all other .NET users as well.

Specify a fixed dimension and a maximum for the other dimension [updated]

2012-12-30T14:42:25-08:00

nathanael.jones said:

Is ?x&maxy not working as you expect?

Add API to return image size without loading the image [is now planned]

2012-12-30T13:01:22-08:00

Add API to return image size without loading the image [updated]

2012-12-30T13:01:22-08:00

nathanael.jones (admin) responded:

Adding this feature will require a breaking change for an infrequently used plugin API, and thus has to be introduced with a major version number change.

Add API to return image size without loading the image [updated]

2012-12-30T12:59:13-08:00

Mario Fortier said:

I meant width/height , not width/size.

Add API to return image size without loading the image

2012-12-30T12:57:28-08:00

Mario Fortier suggested:
My application only need to get the width and size of the resulting image for any ImageResizer URL. The purpose is to set the width/size attribute of an <img> tag when rendering a MVC view. In that case, no need for the extra processing cost of loading the image.

Enable opacity/transparency for TextLayer inside Watermark plugin [updated]

2012-12-03T12:09:40-08:00

When writing a "Copyright" text on images (jpg) it would be awesome if it was possible to enter some kind of opacity/transparency value, so the text would behave kind of like a "watermark". I'm adding some text to the center of my images and it steals to much attention. The purpose of the text is to track if other websites steals my images, so it would be perfect if it was "not so visible" :-)

Allan said:

Very cool. Thank you very much for your help.

Enable opacity/transparency for TextLayer inside Watermark plugin [is now completed]

2012-12-03T10:09:54-08:00

Enable opacity/transparency for TextLayer inside Watermark plugin [updated]

2012-12-03T10:09:54-08:00

nathanael.jones (admin) responded:

This feature has existed for years. Just use a 4-channel color value in RRGGBBAA form.

Add the capability to output interlaced PNGs [is now completed]

2012-12-01T10:06:48-08:00

There are some great advantages to interlaced pngs (nuwen.net/png.html) and, if you notice, what sites like Facebook use when viewing images. It doesn't make the file size any smaller, but it lets the user see the image a lot quicker -- when we're viewing a lot of image thumbnails, this is pretty useful.

Add the capability to output interlaced PNGs [updated]

2012-12-01T10:06:48-08:00

nathanael.jones (admin) responded:

Interlaced PNGs are now supported by the WicEncoder plugin and the &interlace=true command.

add webp support [is now started]

2012-10-18T18:17:36-07:00

https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/

composite multiple images into one

2012-10-09T23:04:44-07:00

Jfffrsn suggested:
If this already exists please delete. If not it would be nice to composite multiple images into one image. Good for sprites.

Make it easier to give you money. [updated]

2012-10-01T12:39:35-07:00

We're now using your plugin in production and want to get a license even for the 'free' version to support your work and of course get support should we need it. It's obvious now that I found it on the plugins page but it seems like it could benefit from some "buy" option from home page or licensing pages.

Spencer Drager said:

Nathan, please heed this! You have an issue with conversion rate and it's because your front page has no call to action (very important!). Even though you are open source and aren't out to force people to pay, you certainly (I know after reading your letter) have a conversion problem.

visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/testing-call-to-action-buttons/

Check out that post... there are many more like it. The gist? On the imageresizing.org front page, just below the slide show, have 2 big, colorful buttons that you can't miss. The first is a "Download Now" button. The second is a "Contribute" or "Purchase License" button. You will see a dramatic effect.

Also, on the plugins page, the add to cart buttons are silver and do not stand out at all. Make them vivid green (or any color) and draw some attention!

Make it easier to give you money. [updated]

2012-09-28T07:46:25-07:00

rickrat said:

As a matter of fact, just give us your wallet, and we'll put the money in there. :)

Ad face detection plugin to make square thumbnails of rectangular images. [updated]

2012-09-10T11:32:22-07:00

For example www.parkerito.com/parker_ito/parked%20domain%20girl%202.jpg is 564x720. I would like a 564x564 image, so it would require face detection to move the "square" to the face area.

Palak Chokshi said:

How do I get this plugin? I don't see it on the website.

Add a totalBehavior="404NotFound" option to the sizelimits configuration

2012-09-08T13:43:58-07:00

Wes suggested:
Allow a totalBehavior="404NotFound" setting to the sizelimits config. This would allow the server to simply issue a 404 instead of generating an exception. Returning this 404 would be more efficient on the server side than throwing an exception.

Add lossless compression

2012-08-24T06:28:44-07:00

Emil Rasmussen suggested:
Would it be possible to add lossless compression (similar to Smush.it - www.smushit.com/ysmush.it/) to Image Resizer?

add webp support [updated]

2012-08-16T11:36:00-07:00

https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/

Rob Becker said:

It would be an excellent addition to the performance bundle if the webp plugin automatically ran on requested images and served a webp version of the image instead of the original image requested. It would have to use User Agent sniffing to determine when to send a webp to browsers that support it.

allow for default settings to be applied to all images

2012-08-10T06:02:01-07:00

Kasper Gadensgaard suggested:
Define default configurations to be applied to all images on the website unless overwritten. E.g. define a default max-size which would result all images on the website to be resized to the specified size without adding any query string parameters.

Ad face detection plugin to make square thumbnails of rectangular images. [is now completed]

2012-08-05T19:31:35-07:00

For example www.parkerito.com/parker_ito/parked%20domain%20girl%202.jpg is 564x720. I would like a 564x564 image, so it would require face detection to move the "square" to the face area.

Carving to enlarge images

2012-07-28T02:59:11-07:00

Paolo suggested:
The carve option always reduce the image, an option for chosing how to resize the image should be so usefull. ie: i have an in image having the 3:2 ratio, i want to have a 1:1 image(a squared one).. if the image has a main item in the center, reducing the image will cause an innatural distortion of the subject, probably enlarging the image will be a better solution.