Magento

Hi,

I would like to get a fine control on the quality of my product images. In others terms, I’d like not to use GD to compress my pictures.

Today I upload images in jpg 100% and I already setted the quality to something better than the default value (in lib/Varien/Image/Adapter/Gd2.php) but the result is not good for all image types (depending on the size, product, ...).

I would like to disable the Gd2 processing in the image caching system to replace it by a simple file copy ... in order to avoid any processing and keep a “human validated” quality

Any idea to do this properly ?

Thanks !

Can you unload the GD module from the server?  If that’s possible and practical (no other projects need it) then do it and search for my post about “gd got you down?” That post will show you how to compensate for a missing GD extension and use the regular images that you’ve uploaded.

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately if I disable the php gd extension + delete image cache no more product is displayed in the shop.

I’ll need to look at the code, but I don’t really know how to manage this right.

Varien, any advise about the method ? Where would you make changes for this feature ?

Thanks !

I would also very much like to see an option in the admin-area where we could ajust the image-quality wanted for uploaded images.

I’d like to sort out the default image compression.  I’m a strong believer that good images sell more products… GD2 settings currently dont cut the mustard!

Lee.

If you use only jpg images, you can change the code like this in lib/Varien/Image/Adapter/Gd2.php :

Change
case IMAGETYPE_JPEG:
imagejpeg($this->_imageHandler, $fileName);
break;

to

case IMAGETYPE_JPEG:
imagejpeg($this->_imageHandler, $fileName, 95);
break;

To get a default compression of 95% instead of the default value (75%).

Hope it helps !

this is a great thing to know. i haven’t noticed any issues with the default 75%, but then again i use lineart instead of photos.

Does that solution actually work? Same thing that happened to me on the thread below happens when I try to apply this fix:

http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/7822/#t33356

Mark

I actually don’t even see that supported in PHP documentation.

- Mark

circa1977, make sure you are modifying imagejpeg() and NOT imagecreatefromjpeg().

Thanks, Josh. That worked much better.

It looks so much better now!  Thanks!