[dev] Ansel / Horde_Image_Effect and image format choice.

[Michael Rubinsky]

Quoting Michael Rubinsky <mike at theupstairsroom.com>:

> With all the image effect stuff we've been talking about for adding   
> "pretty" thumbnails to Ansel, etc... It dawned on me that most of  
> what  we are trying to do will really only work if using png as the  
> image  format.  Without the transparent background, the jpg images  
> would look  horrible.
>
> I suppose we will have to check for the configured image format and   
> either use the 'new' stuff, or fall back to what we currently do.   
> The  only issue is for existing installations that might for  
> whatever  reason have switched from one to the other and thus have a  
> mix of  formats already generated. I guess for those, we could  
> provide a  script to scrub the vfs of horde-generated images?
>
> Just kinda talking out loud at this point...and hoping for some  
> inspiration :)


BTW, I just made some quick changes in Ansel on my dev install to try  
thumbnails out, and the im versions of a shadowed, rounded thumbnail  
look *very* cool :)

If I get a chance, I'll regenerate a bunch of my thumbnails and put a  
screenshot up somewhere if your interested...

Thanks,
mike

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