So it's my first Umbraco site, and I'd like to handle images in a good way.
Ideally, I'd like users to be easily able to upload an image, and store that image in the Media Section (in a folder that I can specify).
Then, when I pull out the image I'd really like to be able to get data like ImageTitle, ImageSize, maybe ImageDimensions.
Finally, I'd like to be able to rotate and resize the Image, I'm thinking about purchasing ImageGen for this job, but a free option would be handy.
Any suggestions welcome!
As an aside, I've tried Multiple File Upload, but it doesn't work for me - the files
are added to the media section (I can see in the file system) but I
can neither see them in the media section nor access them in the page I added them
to. According to the documentation, I think this is because the document I'm adding the files to isn't a "Native Folder" type, but I can't find anything about that type in umbraco docs...??
Forget that last question. I've seen how the multiple file uploader works on a native Folder "Media Type", but it doesn't look like it can be added to "Document types".
But still, any suggestions on handling image file would be appreciated!
I'm not quite sure what your needs are, but there's a bunch of great packages found in the project section. Just to mention a few of the packages that is very handy when you want to upload more than one image at the time:
As the description says: "The Universal Media Picker package is an all purpose Umbraco Media
Picker Data Type which allows you to select media / content from any 3rd
party location which exposes an API". This means that you can select files from sites like Facebook, Dropbox, TweetPic etc. You should check it out.
If you want to edit the uploaded images in the media section, you can take a look at the Pixlr Package found here: http://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/pixlr - Then you can rotate, adjust colors, crop etc. etc. your images like you want to.
And then of course ImageGen as you also mentioned yourself. ImageGen is one of those packages that I use in all of my Umbraco projects. It rocks.
That was a bit of ideas to some brilliant packages that you might want to take a look at. There's a lot more of them and I have probably forgot to mention some of the other genious "Media"-packages. But I hope that this can get you started in some way, and that I didn't misunderstod your question totally :)
Suggestions for image upload handling in Umbraco
Hi,
So it's my first Umbraco site, and I'd like to handle images in a good way.
Ideally, I'd like users to be easily able to upload an image, and store that image in the Media Section (in a folder that I can specify).
Then, when I pull out the image I'd really like to be able to get data like ImageTitle, ImageSize, maybe ImageDimensions.
Finally, I'd like to be able to rotate and resize the Image, I'm thinking about purchasing ImageGen for this job, but a free option would be handy.
Any suggestions welcome!
As an aside, I've tried Multiple File Upload, but it doesn't work for me - the files are added to the media section (I can see in the file system) but I can neither see them in the media section nor access them in the page I added them to. According to the documentation, I think this is because the document I'm adding the files to isn't a "Native Folder" type, but I can't find anything about that type in umbraco docs...??
Thanks in advance!
-Evan
Forget that last question. I've seen how the multiple file uploader works on a native Folder "Media Type", but it doesn't look like it can be added to "Document types".
But still, any suggestions on handling image file would be appreciated!
Anyone got any great recommendations for the first part of the question?
Hi there Evan
I'm not quite sure what your needs are, but there's a bunch of great packages found in the project section. Just to mention a few of the packages that is very handy when you want to upload more than one image at the time:
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/desktop-media-uploader
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/gecko-uploadify
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/zip-upload
Besides those three you might also want to check out the outstanding package called Universal Media Picker: http://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/universal-media-picker
As the description says: "The Universal Media Picker package is an all purpose Umbraco Media Picker Data Type which allows you to select media / content from any 3rd party location which exposes an API". This means that you can select files from sites like Facebook, Dropbox, TweetPic etc. You should check it out.
If you want to edit the uploaded images in the media section, you can take a look at the Pixlr Package found here: http://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/pixlr - Then you can rotate, adjust colors, crop etc. etc. your images like you want to.
And then of course ImageGen as you also mentioned yourself. ImageGen is one of those packages that I use in all of my Umbraco projects. It rocks.
That was a bit of ideas to some brilliant packages that you might want to take a look at. There's a lot more of them and I have probably forgot to mention some of the other genious "Media"-packages. But I hope that this can get you started in some way, and that I didn't misunderstod your question totally :)
/Kim A
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