Image Fix

*** Recommended for inclusion in next OpenCart release ***

Fix critical OpenCart image problems:
- enable PNG compression
- preserve original images when possible
- make File Manager automatically submit image
- remove 300 Kb and 1000px image size limitation

+ optional image white excess fix

Are you tired scrolling File Manager to find image you just uploaded? Now it will be submitted automatically, saving valuable time.

Do you know that OpenCart performs recompression for every image - even if size is right? Furthermore, often it saves PNG files without compression at all, making image files really huge!

Have you ever noticed your carefully optimized frontpage slides become 1 Mb each? With this fix your graphics will be intouch - pixel to pixel, bit to bit.

Demo: http://demo.FileShop.Biz/admin
Presented at extensions section - here.


*** Part of FileShop package - http://FileShop.Biz ***

You should also do a fix to remove the white excess on images that are NOT square, after resizing. I have many threads on the forum with code that crops it off which is great for images that are NOT on a white background + not square.
An example is here:
http://forum.opencart.com/viewtopic.php ... it=+excess

And here is an example of it at work (with the scrolling image gallery you can see all images have no excess:
http://www.artsyfartsy.us

Nice job

Thank you for pointing me to this image bug. I'd like to include the fix of this into the OpenCart imaging core, but I can't fugure conditions when it shows up. Any ideas?

Using GD just check to see if the image size is Square. If the size is NOT SQUARE then run the function. If it IS square then there is no need.

avvici wrote:Using GD just check to see if the image size is Square. If the size is NOT SQUARE then run the function. If it IS square then there is no need.

Avvici, thank you for explanation. I was getting it completely wrong!

I updated ImageFix with the optional cure for this white excesses issue.

Avvici, may I send you vQmod of this fix to check?

If you like sure. joe@involutionmedia.com

Max, this will help you. I refined the code in another post:
http://forum.opencart.com/posting.php?m ... 0&p=329710

Max came up with a great vQmod that does all of the work for you.
http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route ... on_id=7458

avvici wrote:Max came up with a great vQmod that does all of the work for you.

Avvici convinced me that this Mod should be free. So I attach it to this message.

Updated to support ALL OpenCart versions.

This fix is partly included in 1.5.4 OpenCart release.
It is still recommended to use ImageFix for better results.

Nice job!