Imagemagick and GD2 Problem.

[Chuck S]

Just reading your comment and letting you know gif images can not be watermarked.

You can use a gif image as a watermarking using Imagemagick as the processor and watermark png or jpg images

Your can use a png watermark to watermark png and jpg images using GD2

That is how watermarking works

[clothahump]

No difference at all, still both Imagemagick and GD2 enlarge file size.
This does not occur with Menalto's Gallery so can only assume it isvbgallery at fault.
Getting a wee bit tiresome this problem now.
Am I the only person suffering with this problem??

[Chuck S]

If you made the edit exactly as I posted yes it would appear so. What I posted definitely strips the exif info and the medium file is smaller than the original in all testing.

I posted results of file uploads aftering making the aforemenationed code edit. The filesize has definately changed for the better after adding the +profile statement.

You can send me FTP info and I can see if you made the proper edit.

[KW802]

Originally Posted by clothahump

No difference at all, still both Imagemagick and GD2 enlarge file size.
This does not occur with Menalto's Gallery so can only assume it isvbgallery at fault.
Getting a wee bit tiresome this problem now.
Am I the only person suffering with this problem??

Clothahump, if you're seeing the same results.... are these with images that have EXIF info in them or don't have them? You should see a decrease in thumbnail size for images that have EXIF in them and when using IM. Also, remember that your existing thunbnails would still be the size they were before unless you rebuilt them.

If you want to see the before & after... find an image with EXIF, upload it, note the size the thumbnail, then do the edit (or remove if you already did the patch), then upload the same image again and compare the thumbnails. On my test site with IM I was seeing a difference of a few K between the thumbs.

[Chuck S]

Thumbnails you will see a slight kb difference with the exif not there but the medium image or resized original is where you see the huge difference here. Before the medium sized was double the size of the original whereas now the resized original should be smaller than the original

[clothahump]

There is no exif on the last image I tried, original size was 56.14kb, after upload 163.79 using IM.
I am wondering if the install went correctly as I am also unable to select the Exif fields I would like to use in the admin panel.

[clothahump]

Just done a test upload in Menalto Gallery using the same file.

Original = 56.14kb
Thumb = 4.92kb
Sized = 39.74kb
Large = 56.14kb

[Zachariah]

The file edit does work for IM on my site.
- Files uploaded are fine after resize.

Looking @ GD.

[clothahump]

Would you Guys like FTP and Admin access to have a look?
email me if yes admin"@"tropicalfishforums.co.uk

[clothahump]

Who do I contact to get my money back plus the interest for wasting my time.???

[Zachariah]

There is nothing to fix on your site untill an answer can be found.
- This is in a bug area because it is a bug.
- When it is locked the bug is fixed.

[clothahump]

Originally Posted by Zachariah

There is nothing to fix on your site untill an answer can be found.
- This is in a bug area because it is a bug.
- When it is locked the bug is fixed.

Still means I have a Gallery I am unable to use which when I purchased was supposed to work correctly, maybe I should just use Photopost instead?

[Chuck S]

Clothahump have been told you can PM me ftp info etc quite a few posts up. You never did so.

You may have an issue with your Image Processor or permissions but lets see this first.

[Chuck S]

Okay this is my take here after looking at your install.

A normal image has some compression and your basically saying no compression to mediums and thumbs so it is expanding

I set your quality to 70 and the processor indeed compresses things fine with mediums smaller than the original image.

[clothahump]

Thanks.
I wonder why Menalto's Gallery does not do this?