Magento's image helper is bloated and the performance impact is quite significant.
Some of the complexity can also be removed because the gain is not that significant (example: the hash part of the image url).
I would like to be able to use a replacement with the following features:
- lightweight
- support for gd and imagemagick
- has nicer image paths
Optional:
- use a queueing system for the resize job
If others are interested we can spec this out further.
Update by Admin:
https://github.com/magento-hackathon/Perfect_Watermarks
https://github.com/monsieurbiz/Mbiz_ImageCrop
Merged in base code in issue branch by @jamescowie . Refactored and tied in helper/processor as a proof of concept. Still need to implement queuing functionality, will open separate issue for it.
Merged in base code in issue branch by @jamescowie . Refactored and tied in helper/processor as a proof of concept. Still need to implement queuing functionality, will open separate issue for it.