[dev] [cvs] commit: framework/Image/Image/Decorator watermark.php

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Michael Rubinsky <mike at theupstairsroom.com>:

> ...the more I think about it, the more I'm convinced we should do   
> driver specific decorators (or some other driver specific solution).  
>   There are other 'non-primitive' image operations that would  
> benifit.   For example, to create a drop shadow, im can do it with 1  
> simple  command, and it's even more efficient with the imagick  
> library.  Not  sure how this would translate into a generic api call  
> without keeping  a shadow method.  Same goes for roundedCorners,  
> which could probably  be done using image primitives, but it would  
> negate the benifits of  having a library like imagick available,  
> which can do it in one simple  call.

I think having driver-specific plugins is reasonable - ways to enhance  
the image object.

-chuck