Advice request on image processing contributions.

[codefumbler]

Hi

 

I am looking for some opinions and advice on which contribution is likely to be the most useful for managing the upload and display of images.

 

Firstly - I take it there is no way to display images different sizes in stock lists and item details - therefore I need a strategy to ensure that the images that are eventually on the server are consistent in size/format/proportion/resolution etc.

 

I could of course create all appropriate images locally before uploading but I am wondering if there is a contribution that may make this easier. I expect to have a variety of image formats from a variety of sources to deal with.

 

Ideally I would like the following features:

1)The ability to upload images of any size or proportions and for them to be resized according to the pre-defined parameters and reframed in order to adhere to the appropriate proportions set in the admin.

2)The creation of thumbnails to suit the predefined image tag sizes on listing together with larger images to be displayed on request. (as I understand it at present OSC constrains any size image to display the thumbnail and this is not the most desirable).

 

I have looked at the following two contributions and they seem to cover a lot of the bases between them.

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...ions,350/page,5

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...ions,746/page,5

 

I would be grateful for anyone's views on either of these and on how well they might meet my needs before I install them.

 

Also - can they (and is there any point) be installed together?

 

Thanks in advance for any input.