Smart Image Processor 2 is DMXzone’s most powerful Image Resize, Enhancement and Manipulation extension that allows you to quickly and easily process multiple images, create thumbnails, use image options such as crop, flip, rotate, sharpen and blur, or create grayscale images. You can even brand your image by including a watermark or text.
If you have ASP.NET on your server NO additional Server components are needed!
Take a look at the PHP version of Smart Image Processor 2.
Overview
Features highlights:
- Manipulate multiple images and create thumbnails
- An amazing number of effects
- Resize image from different sources
- Rick text options
- Watermark your image
Demo: Upload, Edit and Resize Your Images
This demo shows how you can upload images with Pure ASP Upload 3 and use Smart Image Processor 2 to apply multiple actions to edit and resize your images. You can also restrict the file types that can be uploaded, this demo allows you to upload and edit only GIF, JPG, BMP and PNG files.
Amazing Image Manipulation
Let the user upload all sorts of images and then resize, crop and improve image quality automatically on the server. The extension can process images uploaded by Pure Upload 2 and 3, stored in a Recordset or folder.
Add text to your images
Now you can print any text on your image! This extension allows you to set rich text options, set text overlays, color and alignment to brand your image any way you like to. Be creative and use this option and the many other text options for multiple purposes.
You can also add a watermark image and set options such as opacity options, color keying and positioning. For example now you can brand your images with your site logo or captions
Features
Features in Detail
New: Auto orientation of images based on meta data of the camera
No need to rotate your images manually
New: The Matte Color is now customizable to optimize transparent images
Your transparent images will get the correct background color
New: Preserve meta data
Keep the camera data after your images are resized
Manipulate multiple images and create thumbnails
You can resize multiple images and create thumbnails in an instant. You can create as many image variations as you like!
Original Cropped Image Resized Image Thumbnail
An amazing number of effects
Smart
Image Processor 2 will not only resize your images but it will also
allow you to crop, flip, rotate, blur and sharpen an unlimited amount
of images. You can even create black and white images with the
grayscale option!
Rotate Flip horizontal/vertical Sharpen Blur
Grayscale
Resize image from different sources
Upload & resize multiple images with the help of Pure Upload 3 or use Smart Image Processor 2 standalone and resize an entire folder on your server. You don't need other extensions to resize, enhance or manipulate the images.
Rich text options
Create
any caption you like, use bold, italic or underline text, set the font
type, size, color and position and place it on your image.
Mark your images with text
Watermark your image
Brand
your image so everyone knows where they got it from. You can position
your Watermark everywhere you like or even tile or stretch the
watermark image. Play around with the opacity and transparency color to
get the best watermark effect.
Watermarked image
New Interface for ease of use in Dreamweaver
The
user interface of Smart Image Processor 2 is very clear! We have
grouped all related options in a nice tabbed interface and also
provided a useful tiptext.
You can find all the basic options in the Main tab
The advanced tab contains advanced mark-up and interaction options
Extended online help
We have included 8 comprehensive tutorials - to simplify the usage of this extension.
These tutorials will walk you step by step through the process of
resizing uploaded images and setting options for rotation, cropping and
display. We'll also show how to pull the uploaded image files from a
database and display the images/thumbnails on a page.
Fully integrated with Pure ASP Upload 2 and 3
The Smart Image Processor 2 extension is able to resize the files that are uploaded with Pure ASP Upload 2 and 3.
Full support for multiple input file formats
Resize GIF, JPG, PGM, PNG, TGA, TIFF, PCX or BMP files.
Full support for multiple output file formats
Save
your images as JPG, PNG or GIF while maintaining transparency setting.
If you use the JPG option you can adjust the JPEG quality. When saving
the files as GIF, you can even choose from different palettes,
dithering options and choose the number of colors.
A high performance ASP.NET component is included
For
this extension no server component is needed. The extension features a
genius ASP.NET secure web service! Now the power of Smart Image
Processor 2 is available to any user via extended web services. Bridge
the gap between ASP and ASP.NET by using the full power of ASP.NET in
legacy ASP trough the Smart Image Processor 2 web services.
Support for many standard image processing server components
Usually
the included high performance ASP.NET server component will be enough
but if you don't have ASP.NET installed you can use popular server
components like Shot Graph, ASPSmartImage, AspJpeg, AspImage, ImgWriter and AspThumb. Just Auto Detect the installed server components and use them.
Showcases
Around the World Demo
You need to click on the gallery to
activate it and press @ (Shift + 2) in order to bring up the login menu
(Username: dmxzone; Password: 123)
* Please, make sure that you do NOT upload inappropriate materials to the live demos.
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Full Content Editor Collection Showcase
For this showcase we enabled all existing Add-ons for the Advanced HTML Editor 3 so you can try the collection functionality online. In order to open the editor use CTRL+SHIFT+2 (username: demo; ...
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Advanced HTML Editor 3 Showcase
In this showcase you can experience all the features packed in the extension. Choose from the many designs, iconsets, toolbars and languages to see how they look like in the browser. You can also ...
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Advanced Content Editor Bundle Showcase
The demo will give you an impression of what Advanced HTML Editor 3 can do when combined with Pure ASP Upload 3 and Smart Image Processor ASP 2. The editor runs the same way if you use Pure PHP ...
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File Management Bundle Showcase
Check out this cool showcase and upload a zip file with images to add to the gallery. Pure ASP Upload 3 will upload the zip file with images, Zip Processor 3 ASP unzips the files, Smart Image ...
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File Management Showcase
The showcase shows a custom file management interface with Folder View tree structure and File Genie listed content.
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Showcase: Upload, Edit and Resize Your Images
This showcase shows how you can upload images with Pure ASP Upload 3 and use Smart Image Processor 2 to apply multiple actions to edit and resize your images. You can also restrict the file types ...
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Upload Multiple Files With The Flash Upload Control
This showcase shows how you can upload multiple images with Pure ASP Upload 3 and use Smart Image Processor 2 to apply multiple actions to edit and resize your images to a maximum width and height of ...
Videos
Manage your gallery online
In this movie Richard shows you how to create a wonderful Gallery that can be managed online with Pure ASP Upload 3 and Smart Image Processor 2. The gallery enables you to upload and automatically resize images online!
Make an Editable Flash Gallery with Dynamic Flash Gallery ASP
In this movie we will show you how easy it is to make a fully editable flash gallery of photos and to impress your site visitors with Flash Album Generator 2 and Dynamic Flash Gallery ASP.
Upload and Manage Images in Advanced HTML Editor 3 on ASP Server
Upload and Manage Images in Advanced HTML Editor 3 on PHP/Linux Server
Insert, Upload and Resize Images in Advanced HTML Editor 3
Requirements
History
Version 2.5.6
- New Crop To Fit option allows you to resize image and/or thumbnails to maximum fit specific size
- The new Crop to Fit functionality is used when Smart Image Processor is integrated in Advanced HTML Editor 3 and DMXzone Nivo Slider to make all the images exact size
- Improved resizing of images with local paths
- Added Matte support when using crop with ASPJpeg component
Version 2.5.5
- Fix that does not resize images that are smaller than the max size when using ASPNET component
- Fixed Matte color error when using ASP/Jscript
Version 2.5.4
- New Extended Crop - now you can specify bigger crop sizes than the image size, to resize its canvas only. The matte color will be used to fill up the extended canvas or if no matte color is specified it will be transparent (PNG only)
- New Service Security – the ASP.NET resize service is now fully secured so that it can only be called from the Smart Image Processor ASP code. Note you need to update the code for all Smart Image Processor ASP instances! See update procedure
- Resize without aspect ratio – you can now resize without keeping the aspect ratio if you need to (rarely used)
Version 2.5.3
- Autodetect filetype and save after resize as original type (PNG, GIF or JPEG).
Version 2.5.2
- Fixed double key EXIF data error caused by images saved in Windows Image Viewer
- Improved memory usage during the image manipulation
- Changed namespace url for the web service
- Improved Dreamweaver CS4 installer
Version 2.5.1
- Auto orientation of images based on meta data of the camera - no need to rotate your images manually
- The Matte Color is now customizable to optimize transparent images - your transparent images will get the correct background color
- Preserve meta data - keep the camera data after your images are resized
- Several minor bug fixes
Update Procedure
Here are five easy steps to update all your pages;
- Install the latest version of Smart Image Processor 2
- Open your Smart Image Processor 2 page
- Select each of the existing Smart Image Processor 2 Server Behaviours from the server behaviors palette
- Click on the ok button to re-apply the server behaviours
- An alert will be sure that your files are replaced, make sure you upload the files to your server
This process updates the ASP file in the general ScriptLibrary folder so a single page update is enough.
George Petrov is a renowned software writer and developer whose extensive skills brought numerous extensions, articles and knowledge to the DMXzone- the online community for professional Adobe Dreamweaver users. His expertise in countless languages and technologies gives inspiration and teach valuable lessons on his website – DMXzone.com, which is visited daily by more than 30.000 people and is most popular for its over high-quality Dreamweaver extensions and templates.
