Re: FN-FORUM: Representing art on the web

date posted 18th March 2008 13:43

That can easily be done by ImageMagick or of course the GD libraries in PHP.

Honestly though, I do think it's unnecessary if the art being sold is
physical. People will buy the art because it's physical art, and won't be
interested in simply downloading the image of it.
Also, assuming that you're presenting low resolution images of the art,
then you don't have to worry about someone simply printing off a print
version of the art; they'd be lucky to print off a version the size of a
small postcard and keep the quality decent.

Of course if you do want to go for an automated image chopping script, I'd
be able to code that for you for a fee. :)

>
> I like that option personally, used together with the idea of a lo-res
> total image and a few high res sections to show the quality of the image.
>
> All you need now is a script to automate it :)
>
> How many images are involved, how often will they need adding and how
> many. Photoshop (Image Ready) will slice the images up and create the
> code to display all the bits as a whole. Therefore, I'm guessing
> ImageMagick will have an option to do this automagically when you upload
> an image. Sounds like a nice little project :)
>
> John Wooding wrote:
>>> There is something that slices the images into several bands, hence
>>> making
>>> downloading tedious, although not impossible
>>
>> Thanks - that's the sort of simple solution I was looking for.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
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