Magento Blog http://www.magentocommerce.com/blog/ en varienchris Copyright 2008 2008-05-16T00:28:00-08:00 Preview: Product Image Management Tool http://www.magentocommerce.com/blog/preview-product-image-management-tool/ http://www.magentocommerce.com/blog/preview-product-image-management-tool/#When:20:56:00Z Magento’s next release will feature an updated image management tool. In this video, we go through the process of uploading multiple images at once. Below is a breakdown of the fields in the page:

  • Small - Used in category listing / wishlist, etc.
  • Thumbnail - Used in shopping cart and related items.
  • Main - Large product image (zoomed in).
  • Custom Image - Currently not used in the default interface but may be used in customizations and future interfaces.
  • Exclude - Excludes the image from the slideshow / more views functionality.
  • Remove - Deletes the image from the collection.
  • Label - Alt value for the image tag.
  • Sort Order - The order in which the images are displayed in the slideshow / more views functionality.

The image sizes will be based on values that are set in the template tags and additional image locations may be set through a configuration file (more info on that later). Image resizing will be automated through the use of GD library.

It is important to note that image type and data should be specified for each store view.

Hope you like it!

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]]> Features 2008-02-22T20:56:00-08:00 Comment by Albert {url_as_title} Then I have to use two different pictures for every ski: One with the ski nose only for the home page and the other with the whole ski for the detail picture, right? Is this possible?

]]> 2008-05-16 T;00:28:00-08:00 Comment by Xel {url_as_title} Jap

Just make a photo of the Skis were not the whole ski is visible but the nose of the skies.

That *does* look pretty and makes the skis visible. Jap that may be not the prefered method but there is no other way to keep layout consistent and skies visible.

]]> 2008-05-16 T;00:28:00-08:00 Comment by Albert {url_as_title} I have a problem with the different product sizes my friend’s shop has. There are for example skis and shoes. Skis are veryyyy long and pretty small, which you can not say for shoes. So if he wants to show skis at the home page they would appear in those small boxes like a small line - almost not recognizable. On the other side with shoes there would be no problem. So the solution would be to have bigger boxes for skis and the standard size for shoes. But this would not look pretty good and probably is not programmable.

Is there a solution to this?

]]> 2008-05-16 T;00:28:00-08:00 Comment by arecuk {url_as_title} I have problem with uploading images ... maybe I have tu setup the permissions for some folders? after clicking on upload files I got only option “remove” in fed field

]]> 2008-05-16 T;00:28:00-08:00 Comment by Xel {url_as_title} To be precise I allready programmed this feature for my OS-Commerce Shop, cause I had no chance in working without it. I would have not use for any shop system which doesn’t offer this feature. I even inserted a Lightbox-Popup on click on that Image to show it in a nice size.

]]> 2008-05-16 T;00:28:00-08:00 Comment by julnepht {url_as_title} Xel brings out a very good point.(comment #18)
I would really dig a feature like this, anything planned down the road ?

]]> 2008-05-16 T;00:28:00-08:00 Comment by iguru {url_as_title} hm i have version 0.8.17240 and this function me not work hmmm if i upload images images no uploaded and product have no images.

]]> 2008-05-16 T;00:28:00-08:00 Comment by Xel {url_as_title} What I would really like to have is a feature for using images with configurable products

Just one example:
You have a shop and sell clothes.
You have a shirt, which has 3 different color-schemes
FireRed/Blue/Green
White/Purple/Gray
Fire Red/White/Brown
the user may choose one of them - it would be really nice to have some Pics (maybe with a text at there bottom, maybe not - both should be possible) with radiobuttons to choose one of the images.

There are many more possibilitys, where one would like such a feature, since many things can be described far better by using an image than by using words.

]]> 2008-05-16 T;00:28:00-08:00 Comment by chadalderson {url_as_title} @RoyRubin - swheat - thanks!

]]> 2008-05-16 T;00:28:00-08:00 Comment by RoyRubin {url_as_title} @chadalderson - Here ya go - http://www.bbsoftware.co.uk/BBFlashBackExpress.aspx

]]> 2008-05-16 T;00:28:00-08:00 Comment by chadalderson {url_as_title} Hey - Does anyone know what software is being used for this screencast?

]]> 2008-05-16 T;00:28:00-08:00 Comment by dfo {url_as_title} Cool! It’s getting better and better! Wow.

]]> 2008-05-16 T;00:28:00-08:00 Comment by RoyRubin {url_as_title} @dfo - This is available in the next release.

]]> 2008-05-16 T;00:28:00-08:00 Comment by dfo {url_as_title} It is a good option, but maybe it is a idea to automatically let Magento resize the pictures like ePages does. That’s very handy and you only need to opload 1 file.

]]> 2008-05-16 T;00:28:00-08:00 Comment by i960 {url_as_title} Yoav, that’s very good news!  I know watermarking isn’t that difficult to do so I would have been fine adding it myself, but that’s one more thing I can check off my to-do list.

]]> 2008-05-16 T;00:28:00-08:00 Comment by Michael {url_as_title} @Ross - it is supposed to be controlled from the design templates using helpers, as image sizes most probably should depend on design.

Thank you,
Michael

]]> 2008-05-16 T;00:28:00-08:00 Comment by Ross {url_as_title} This looks really good!  I was wondering if the back-end will also control the way images are resized (for example: setting the x and y size of the small and main image)?

]]> 2008-05-16 T;00:28:00-08:00 Comment by YoavKutner {url_as_title} @i960 - We are going to have an automatic watermarking released in our next release.

Thanks

yoav

]]> 2008-05-16 T;00:28:00-08:00 Comment by i960 {url_as_title} @Ron:  I’m pretty sure that’s the idea. That’s what the use of the GD library is for.

What I would like to see is automatic watermarking as well, such as what the phpThumb() script does, but that will likely be a custom modification provided by the community.

]]> 2008-05-16 T;00:28:00-08:00 Comment by LorenzoG {url_as_title} I love it! Great job. smile

]]> 2008-05-16 T;00:28:00-08:00 Comment by Ron Seigel {url_as_title} Will it include the ability to upload one large image and then automatically create the other required images? I’m thinking of the functionality that Image Handler provides for Zen Cart.

]]> 2008-05-16 T;00:28:00-08:00 Comment by Loïc {url_as_title} Wow, impressive. I love this.

]]> 2008-05-16 T;00:28:00-08:00 Comment by SeanCulver {url_as_title} Once again, over the top with the cool features! Great job.

]]> 2008-05-16 T;00:28:00-08:00 Comment by WebAddict {url_as_title} Awesome, I am looking forward to this.

]]> 2008-05-16 T;00:28:00-08:00 Comment by iguru {url_as_title} Waw. It’s wery nice function. Well done.

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