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
Created configuration section in the Catalog tab. Added an enabled field, media width/height, thumbnail width/height as well as a width/height for any catalog attribute which is a "media_image".
Created configuration section in the Catalog tab. Added an enabled field, media width/height, thumbnail width/height as well as a width/height for any catalog attribute which is a "media_image".