sphillips/campus-taps — Issue #9: Image Management (thumbnail generation etc)
Author: sphillips
Created: 2012-03-06 20:07:30+00:00
State: open

Scott, we need to establish what all the image types and sizes are. Right now we have a "small" style defined for most images, which probably needs to be renamed to thumb and the correct dimensions set.

This is what the paperclip readme says about imagemagick options you can apply to uploads:

Resizing options
Default behavior is to resize the image and maintain aspect ratio (i.e. the :medium version of a 300×150 image will be 200×100). Some commonly used options are:

trailing #, thumbnail will be centrally cropped, ensuring the requested dimensions.
trailing >, thumbnail will only be modified if it is currently larger requested dimensions. (i.e. the :small thumb for a 120×80 original image will be unchanged)

I'm assuming we will use the # option for thumbnails (blog banner image thumb, bar/store logo thumb, event thumbnail). For the others, like the main blog post image and event flyer, im assuming we will use the > option. What are your thoughts?