Anyone ever setup ImageMagick?

[BoneHeadicus]

I'm wondering how well this technology works and what kind of load it puts on the server?

I subscribed to their list and its quite busy with all kinds of bugs and fixes. If this software really works like it's supposed to I could sure put it to work.

[sugarkane]

I've never used it but would be wary of using it too much on a server, it seems like it would be a heavy resource hog. If you end up installing it let us know how it pans out.

PHP includes a similar set of functions [php.net] but my same worries about resource hogging apply...

[BoneHeadicus]

Yessirreee. I like PHP.

This is interesting [oss.sgi.com]

[sugarkane]

>This is interesting [oss.sgi.com]

Yep, I'm actually using the SGI stuff on a (minor) live site at the moment - so far so good.

Did you ever try ImageMagick?

[BoneHeadicus]

Well SugarKane....not yet.

I'm weighing a lot of different technologies out before I commit because when I get it rolling there's gonna be a lot of sites to build. I gotta be sure.

Plus I don't have my server situation worked out yet either...lots of unknowns for me like how many PHP nuke type sites can you put on a server? How server intensive is it for ImageMagick to resize a picture from straight out of a digital camera (@1 meg) down to web graphic file size (20K) etc. That is a great service to offer to less techno savvy people.

I'm kinda trolling for everything out there and then hashing it down to what really is gonna work the best.

I really like the PHP MySQL combo. But I've only been playing with it for a month or so. Obviously there's a lot more to learn.

BTW I picked up the ImageMagick idea from here [typo3.com]

[physics]

I'm thinking of using ImageMagick in conjunction with this [bewley.net] program to make thumbnails out of the full size images on my site. Or, should I (can I) do this in php? All I want to do is have something run through my images and make little thumbnails out of them, this doesn't have to be done 'on the fly' though. What do you guys think?

[toolman]

Hi physics.

It seems there's a ton of scripts for image manipulation over at hotscripts under php. I finally found a host who even knew what ImageMagick was. I still haven't gotten around to playing with it yet though. You will find however that there are 101 different ways to do what you want to do without Imagick.

[python_dev]

personaly I use ACDSee for on the fly thumbnails locally it'll even set it all up in html for youdo a whole directory of images in seconds, still have to be uploaded but if your not doing it live it's a good app to look at :D