Image Watermark

Submitted by Triskele Media on Tue, 08/21/2007 - 11:01

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Joined: 08/21/2007

Greetings All,

#1: Ubercart is amazing. My business is setting up its first Drupal / E-commerce combo site, and Ubercart is a perfect fit.

#2: This particular site is selling personal art, and so the proprietor wishes to protect images with a watermark. I'm not seeing an easy way to utilize the upload mechanism provided by Ubercart to implement the http://drupal.org/project/watermark functionality. The alternative is to use one of the inline-image tools and inject the images into the description manually, but this would cause some loss of automatically created Ubercart-functionality. I could also just set up a different product node type... but I haven't looked to deeply into that...

Any suggestions?

Sean P. O. MacCath-Moran
www.triskelemedia.com

permalink #1 Mon, 08/27/2007 - 15:29

Ryan

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Joined: 08/07/2007

Hmm.. the problem here is that module works for the Image module but not the Imagecache module we're using here. Based on the issues in the queue for that module, I don't think the author is going to add the support in any time soon. You may be able to get it done yourself, but it may end up being better for you to figure out a way to use the Image module for the images instead.

permalink #2 Mon, 08/27/2007 - 21:14

emanaton

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Joined: 08/27/2007

Indeed, I may just go ahead and troubleshoot/fix/extend this module specifically so that it will work with Uber-Cart; I have a customer that really needs this functionality! If I do, it'll be a couple of weeks from now, but I'll be sure to let you folks know about it just in case ya'll like do anything with it. =o)

Sean P. O. MacCath-Moran
www.triskelemedia.com

permalink #3 Thu, 10/04/2007 - 01:27

BINAIR-e (not verified)

Hi,

I was just wondering if you had any success with the mods integrating the watermark module?

Thanks in advance Smiling

Cheers

permalink #4 Sat, 10/06/2007 - 10:58

emanaton

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Joined: 08/27/2007

Greetings,

I've implemented a slip-shod fix until I can get back to this. I currently have my client using a two step process. First, upload art images via the Image node (which I've expanded with CCK to allow for various taxonomy classifications, inclusion in catalog, etc.). Then create a new product item, which has a node-select the pulls from Image nodes that have been marked for that purpose. I currently present these on the site using the Grid View from the Views Bonus Pack, which selects from the available products showing their Teasers, which I've over-written using Contemplate.

My intention is to write some modules/extensions for UberCart to do this better, although my free time is limited, so I'm refraining from estimating when that will happen. One module will provide the Image support I need (watermarking) from within the products system. Another module will extend Attributes to allow one to select images (actually, to selected nodes from a view) for a product. Don't count on seeing these for several months, but I'll post them here and on drupal.org when they're ready for beta testing. =o)

Sean P. O. MacCath-Moran
www.triskelemedia.com

permalink #5 Tue, 01/08/2008 - 15:19

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