Automatic Product Image creation

[NicChew]

Hello alltogether,

since I want to sell a picture archive online, which consists of quite a lot of pictures, I need a way to auto create product images.
The function should automatically create a scaled-down, watermarked version of the image/product I intend to sell when uploading the original file via the download-information function.

I would be very happy if someone could help me to find a way on how to do this.

Thank you very much in advance!

[Theis Corfixen]

Hi @NicChew 

Magento have default functionallity to add watermark to all your product images. But depending on how much security you want on this I wouldn't really use it since you can easily access the original images.

However if its just for show. You can access the default watermark functionallity form the admin:

System > Configuration > Design > Product Image Watermarks

You can upload watermarks and set the opacity intencity.

I hope this helps :-)

[NicChew]

Hey @Theis Corfixen ,

thank you very much for your fast answer!

What would you recommend then for maximum security?

It is very important for me that the customer cannot download the original image.

[Theis Corfixen · Accepted solution]

Hi @NicChew 

Well I wouldn't upload the original online to a public network if you don't want people to be able to find it.

I'm not expert in offline image magement, but you could run them through script / macro in photoshop adding the watermarks to your images, and upload these updated ones.

I hope this helps :-)