Image resizing during upload

[Rolandos]

Hello,

I am looking for a hack that scales the images when uploading to a certain number of pixels. For VM 1.7 I've used the following hack:

http://www.designersandbox.com/joomla/joomla-virtuemart-auto-resize-full-product-image-dynamically-mod-hacks

This worked perfectly for me, but VM2.0 treated media files in a different way, because imageTools.class.php is no longer used. This I do not know how I should get this done.

Anyone have a suggestion?

Perhaps it is also an idea for VMcore, because users often insert images from their ditgital cameras. Today, those images are often 5 mb or larger, and thus they messed up the server space as they have over 1000 products with alternative images.

[John2400]

Just wondering why not try to resize before you put them up.

Lots of Imaging software does this. Most can to 100s - 1000s at a time.  I normally set up my software and do one. 
Then upload that one and test and test until I get just the right settings and size.

Then copy all the originals and make a new folder - "then resize the whole as a batch"
* your originals are OK and your new folder has small uploadable images - which you could FTP into the images folder asa group or folder etc.

* I use lots of free conversions or resize software - I do have Photshop CS5 , buy old powerproducer 1 still does that same thing. Look on the net for graphics conversion software.

* but it needs to do batches -CS5 have moved 'resize " to adobe bridge CS5 -