6.01 can't display LARGE images

Johnny Doomo · July 19th, 2008, 05:01 PM

Example: Gamers Gallery - Gears of War (Concept) and another Gamers Gallery - Gears of War (Concept)

It shows the medium size, but when you click on it, it never loads the full 5249 x 7000 image.

This is a problem I believe that is specifically related to that large of an image as the showphoto works on other images and even the somewhat small 2339 x 2830 image here Gamers Gallery - Gears of War (Concept)

Can I please get a fix for this problem.

I have had multiple problems with 6.01 I don't know if this version was a rework and a lot of code was redone or what, but I've been running into some serious flaws with this script after my upgrade. My previous version had a lot fewer bugs that affected me.

I am looking for new code to replace my code and not be told to upgrade to a new version if at all possible.

Thank you.

Chuck S · July 19th, 2008, 05:46 PM

Yeah I beleive it is probally a limitation with the browser as I cant even download the picture and view it in a browser or the windows picture viewer.

There is no new code to give you try setting your maximum picture thresholds to more normal parameters and you should not have issues.

Johnny Doomo · July 21st, 2008, 10:03 PM

I've done further testing and this problem is directly related to "Enable on-the-fly image protection" setting in the admincp. The images come up just fine once this is disabled. Can you please give me code that would fix the on-the-fly image protection in 6.01?

I would like to still keep my image protection as that is a very important part of my gallery.

Thank you for anything you can help me with.

Chuck S · July 22nd, 2008, 08:40 AM

well what type of image is it what type of extention?

Essentially the image is too large for GD2 to overlay the watermark and display it it would appear. That would be my guess

There is no code fix since we are dealing with GD2 not our code. You can try raising PHP memory but thats the best I can suggest. You could be at a limitation of what GD2 can effectively watermark an image at in dimensions. Remember this is only images over a certain dimension and it is failing because it can not watermark them.

To test this try turning off your overlay image and see if they display

Johnny Doomo · July 22nd, 2008, 10:21 AM

When I turn off on the fly watermarks - "When using on-the-fly image generation, do you want to overlay the watermark image?" It shows the picture.

I do need both image protection and watermarking to be working.

I am using ImageMagick if that makes any difference not GD2.

When I disabled the on-the-fly watermarking, however, and it showed the image, the image had already been watermarked previously from previously when it was not on-the-fly. So if the system could have put the watermark on the image before, then why can't it do it now when it's on-the-fly?

Chuck S · July 22nd, 2008, 10:24 AM

Yes that indicates an issue with GD2 not being able to generate such a large dimension image.

I bet you use Imagemagick for your normal image processing right?

Thats just a limitation on GD2 I know it can not process images over a certain dimension.

You can try giving more memory to GD2 but thats all I can suggest

http://www.photopost.com/forum/1219346-post2.html

Johnny Doomo · August 4th, 2008, 09:38 PM

I got this fixed by not even using the on-the-fly watermarking. But regular watermarking works.

Guess that's a real downside to using onthefly if you are dealing with large images.

I would have liked to have stuck with onthefly, but watermarking my big ass images is more important.

Chuck S · August 4th, 2008, 10:23 PM

yeah GD2 has limitations. Nothing we can do about that as thats the image processor itself.

Johnny Doomo · August 5th, 2008, 10:48 AM

OK now I'm confused.

Yesterday when I reported that I got it working, I had created a private album and uploaded an image. It was watermarked.

Today I upload images to a regular category and it has no watermark. I checked and the category I uploaded to has no specific watermark mentioned so it should use the default one for the site.

I have the watermark section turned on.

I have "Enable on-the-fly image protection" turned on.

I have "When using on-the-fly image generation" turned off.

What is the problem and why did it work for the private album, but it still won't work for regular categories?

As far as I can see I have everything set correctly and if it worked for the private album, it should now be working for public categories, but it's not.

What am I doing wrong?

Chuck S · August 5th, 2008, 10:52 AM

I have "When using on-the-fly image generation" turned off.

If you use permanent watermarking your album photos will be watermarked because they use permissions from the members gallery category cat 500

This is not really confusing at all. Your issue with large images being displayed only happens when trying to use ON THE FLY watermarking when GD2 tries to display the watermark on that large image. GD2 craps out.

Johnny Doomo · August 6th, 2008, 04:03 PM

Wait, so how do I get the permanent watermarks to show on all my images and not just ones inside of albums?

Chuck S · August 6th, 2008, 04:34 PM

You need to set permanent watermarking permissions under edit categories for each category which groups you want images watermarked.

Johnny Doomo · August 8th, 2008, 01:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck S

You need to set permanent watermarking permissions under edit categories for each category which groups you want images watermarked.

When trying to add a new image after adding watermarks to each category I got it to work with one batch, but on the 2nd batch I got this error.

Quote:

Error creating watermarked original! Error code: 1

Command: "/usr/local/bin/composite" -compose over -gravity SouthEast 1 '/home/ggadmin/public_html/gallery/data/9429/halflife2episodethree1.jpg' '/home/ggadmin/public_html/gallery/data/9429/halflife2episodethree1.jpg'

Ideas?

EDIT: I did have to create this as a new category, if that makes any difference.

EDIT2: Also after changing the watermark for my 3 main categories where all other catgories fall under I still have images showing without watermarks. What gives?

I changed the setting for the cats where it notes "Path to watermark for this category*: " and yet the images being uploaded are not getting watermarked.

Either something is really wrong or 6.01 has a lot of bugs concerning watermarks and perhaps a lot of catgories.

Once again I am looking for ideas to resolve these problems. Ever since my upgrade I haven't had much luck with things working correctly with photopost.

Does photopost have a support ticket system or can I PM you my admin login and password so you can take a look?

Chuck S · August 8th, 2008, 11:48 AM

You can email support at photopost dot com

if you set the proper path to a watermark and permissions files will be permanently watermarking.

Is this a non hacked photopost?

Johnny Doomo · August 11th, 2008, 01:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck S

You can email support at photopost dot com

if you set the proper path to a watermark and permissions files will be permanently watermarking.

Is this a non hacked photopost?

It's fairly unhacked. There may be a few things that I've adjusted, but not more than 2 or 3 little sections.

When I placed the watermark path in each of the main categories I copy and pasted it straight from the main section where it was working when I did my test in a private album.

If you have any other ideas though that you can share with me that I can test that would be very helpful as I'm hesitant to give out my admin login, even if I do change it afterwards.

Chuck S · August 11th, 2008, 02:12 PM

If you doing permanent watermarking using the same watermark. In watermark options set yes to watermarking and place the full server path to your watermark file including filename there.

Once that is done which most likely you have already done under each category edit that cat make sure the watermark field there is blank and then at the bottom where permissions are set set the watermarking permissions as you wish. You must do this for every single category

That should be it.