Front Facing Image Manipulation

  • JakeBrand

    (@jakebrand)


    8 years, 11 months ago

    I’m brand new to WordPress, Cloudinary, and what appears to be a necessary knowledge of PHP, so what I am asking may be trivial or not even be possible.

    I would like to make a site that allows users to upload photos of themselves, manipulate the image (crop, rotate, scale, etc.), preview the image after manipulations are applied, and save/share the image via social media. I’m not looking for a ‘blog’ site, more of a ‘lets play with images’ site.

    With this plugin I see that I can manipulate images as a developer (possible improper user of terminology) and display those images on my site in posts or on pages. Is there a way to allow visitors of my site to do this too? Can I then store the URL associated with that manipulated image for social media sharing?

    This is step one of my site, so any and all assistance is appreciated.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/cloudinary-image-management-and-manipulation-in-the-cloud-cdn/

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  • Plugin Author Cloudinary

    (@cloudinary)

    8 years, 10 months ago

    Hi,

    Cloudinary indeed supports allowing your end-users to upload images through your web-app straight to your account.

    Those image are then, immediately, available for on-the-fly transformations and delivering through a fast CDN.

    Today Cloudinary offers a fully responsive and customizable Upload-Widget which offers interactive cropping on the client-side. It’s on our road map to add some more interactive features to the current ‘upload & crop’.

    Having said that, an interactive widget like the one described in the question might be risky, as every preview of a transformed image is being processed and counted against the customer’s Quota. This could result with generating a large amount of unnecessary derived images and storing it on your account.

    Meantime you can consider offering your users to submit a form containing some transformations parameters (width, height, crop, gravity, overlay text, etc.) and generate the final result once they finish.

    I hope this will help you with your use-case.

    Thanks, Nadav.

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