One more watermark issue.

[goowa]

I finally got Imagemagick to work after the great help threads in this forum, BUT, I can't seem to get the watermark to work. I have the correct path (I've tested it by typing the path into IE and I see the image) I've tried with both gif and jpg files (it worked when I was using GD2 and a png file) and I've tried with both permanent watermarking and on the fly watermarking and no dice. I get no error messages and everything else works fine.

I've even had my server admin re-install Imagemagick and its associated libraries as per the instructions on this forum.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks.

[Chuck S]

It needs to be a gif with Imagemagick and you need to use server path not a url. Thus I know your not using a path because you just said you typed it in your browser

[goowa]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

It needs to be a gif with Imagemagick and you need to use server path not a url. Thus I know your not using a path because you just said you typed it in your browser

Actually I am using the path, I took out the server path parts of the path to make it a legitimate url, so I could check to make sure it was finding and reading the file. The address in the admin area is the path to the server. As I said, it worked when I was using a png file with gd2, so all I did was re-save the watermark as a gif file (also tried it as a jpg), uploaded it to the same location as the png file, and left the path the same, but just changed the extension from png to gif or jpg depending on which I was testing. I get no error messages, but I also get no watermark.

[Chuck S]

well you need to set permanent watermarks to YES and set watermark permissions in edit categories

watermarks on the fly are only GD2

[goowa]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

well you need to set permanent watermarks to YES and set watermark permissions in edit categories

watermarks on the fly are only GD2

Maybe I'm dumb, but I don't see anywhere to set watermark permissions under
Admin -> Edit Categories

The only thing I see regarding watermarks is:
Path to watermark for this category*:
(leave blank to use forum default)

To which I have tried both leaving blank and putting in the server path.

I have also double checked to make sure the permanent watermarks is set to YES.

[Chuck S]

down the bottom of the edit category screen where you set permissions the last part all way down

[goowa]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

down the bottom of the edit category screen where you set permissions the last part all way down

Thanks (as I said I must be dumb) that's the good news, the bad news is still no watermarks. Here are my settings:

Global Options -> Imaging Integration -> ImageMagick
Show Photo Options -> Enable On the fly image generation -> No
-> when Usiing on the fly.... do you want to overlay... -> No
Edit Categories -> All usergroups checked to have photos stamped with overlay photo

Image Protection -> enable on the fly.... -> No
-> When using on the fly .... -> No

Watermark Options -> Enable watermark with overlay image? -> Yes
-> SouthEast
-> full server path -> Is correct, as I have used this path for GD2 and I have both a png,gif and jpg file there with the same name, so I just change the extension to the path (which works with GD2 and png) to IM and use the jpg or gif extension instead.

But alas, no watermarks are showing up.

[goowa]

Update. Out of the blue, they started to work. Hmmmm Gremlins in my puter

Anyway, the settings above are what I used for ImageMagick to get a jpg or a gif file to work, just in case anyone else is having the same issues as I was.

Thanks for you help Chuck!!!!

[goowa]

Since you've been so helpful, maybe you can solve this little problem too.

If I use Imagemagick, I solve the problem of the upload screen hanging on users that are trying to upload big files, but I don't like the way it watermarks.

If I use GD2 I get great watermarks with png as it makes them the appropriate size on the medium and large pictures, but I get the problem of the upload screen hanging.

So is there way to solve the upload screen hanging with large files when I'm using GD2, or is there a way to have the watermark size itself based on the picture size when I'm using IM?

The only thing I can find by searching the forum is this suggestion from Zachariah last November:
You can place this in the upload.php also to cure most problems.
ini_set("memory_limit", "32M"); // "64M" or "128M"
ini_set("max_execution_time", 900); // Add more time if needed


But in the new version of Photopost, I don't even see the upload.php, and the uploadphoto.php doesn't have any of those strings.

I'll take either solution at this point.

Thanks again for the great support!!!!

[Chuck S]

add that to uploadphoto.php. Do a search for ini_set you will find threads where we state you can add that to uploadphoto or pp-inc

Your watermark is proportional to the pic to a degree

[goowa]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

add that to uploadphoto.php. Do a search for ini_set you will find threads where we state you can add that to uploadphoto or pp-inc

Your watermark is proportional to the pic to a degree

One last questions, and thanks again for all the help. With the code above, does it matter where in uploadphoto.php I add it? I can't find a place that anything like it already exists to alter the values, so I'm assuming I just add the code. Does adding at the end of the script work or does it have to go with some other variables?

[Chuck S]

at the top below the define this script line