[Suggested] Compress Online Image?

[bupaje]

I have seen some apps that use GD to compress and resize images. Would it be possible to create a mod to allow this in WB? I have an old page I moved to WB and some of the image sizes were very large and file sizes as well. Right now I have to download all of them and resize and compress then re-upload. It seems that it would be useful to be able to click on the image and maybe in the image properties be able to resize and/or jpeg compress.

[vyni]

If I´m right....
resizing and compressing pic directly on the server will cause heavy duty and needs a lot of time and memory - usually the servers aren´t configured for that.

So the download and doing by hand is the best way. Anyway - You wouldn´t need each pic in the same size.
If You don´t have a copy of Your web-content (which You should have  ) make it right now. Resize the fotos as You need and transfer it back.

Local You could use any album-program such as JAlbum to resize the entire folder within seconds and transfer it via ftp - this means plenty fotos in the time of 2 or 3 through the server.

The named programm allows You to keep the original, make a copy with desiered size (640x480) and jpg-quality (smoothing and compression) and creates a thumb in a choosable size - 1 setting - 1 click - plenty fotos.

Better do it like this.

[bupaje]

Thanks I will do that. I didn't think it would be unworkable on the server as I seem to remember there were some gallery modules here on the forums that used GD Library to generate thumbnails and do a few other things with images. This would be used on an image here or there - for example I go to a page and realize an image I put in the tutorial is wider than my template and needs to be reduced a little. Or a page has a lot of images and loads a little slow so I quickly compress the biggest one or two.

Still I understand your point and this is just an occasional operation so I can just work on a copy as you suggest.