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Written by Nakul Ganesh S

I believe Web 2.0 really began with the WYSIWYG editor! Yeah, with the power to edit articles,documents and posts ,entire websites.Basically to put it in a sentence WYSIWIG editor has made the net more Dynamic than ever.And i'm going to take this one step ahead.I sure hope so

Images truly speak more than words.Imagine the capabilities if we could edit photos online,and that too within Joomla!.Well okay yeah,i agree this is not an entirely new thing;we've always been able to edit photos.But what is new about this ? You may ask.

Let me break it upto you this way,i will give a simple breakup presentation of what it is now with Images in Joomla! and what wil be there this spring ;)Managing Media (Photos) in Joomla! now :

Images can be uploaded via http upload or ftp ,and can be put in articles through the WYSIWYG editor ;

It can be resized (but lossy)

It can be given a border.

It can be linked. And of course can be aligned.

Hmm,i think thats about it !!

I just wanna list out some of the shortcomings ,right bout here

Its not always that you are going to put your Photo right off your Camera.Its probably larger than a Meg.Well,so what do you do then ?.........Haven't you all wondered if you could easily *Crop* of parts of an image whil editing an artilce without having to edit it and to upload it again.Besides you would need some software to do it too !!

Imagine this, you have to write an article right away and you're at your Granny's place which has a very old( I mean really old) box with just enough connectivity.Well as you've probably guessed you have no editing software there.Thats where this new component will come in handy.

If you're a linux user you probably will edit it in GIMP and upload it.But,i'm guessing here that not a lot of everyday common people are gonna be on Linux.From what i know there isn't a *GOOD* and *FREE* image editor,unless you already have one or are cash loaded to buy one or you're a leecher using a pirated one ;-)

It won't matter anymore,at least for Joomla! users this spring,I'm gonna put the Photo Editor BIGGIES outta business.

LOL!! I know !!

Nevertheless ,here are the things i can promise by the end of Summer ;-)

An Image Editor !

Which can resize image wil very little or least loss.
Crop parts of Images.
Add Watermark.
Write Captions/Titles on the Image.
Add coll effects (Sepia,Greyscaling,etc)
Copy and Merge Images.
Convert from one format to the other.
Get Photo Data.
Yes,of course there are a lot more.(I'll update ASAP)
I mean a lot more.

And all of this without even having to close the browser.This componenet will certainly not be just for the Admin,but or the Users too,giving them more control over the articles that they will publish.

Alongside this I will also be implementing a very new feature into Joomla! A browser based Flash Processor.I'm going to post more on this,sometime soon.Glad to keep you guys in Suspense :-)

Nakul Gan

PS:I'm very new to blogging

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Sandeep , Pune makes this comment

Sunday, 17 August 2008

Nakul , Nice to see you in open software project. I am fan of Developer team of joomla.
Nakul Best of luck . .. .
just_ina2nd makes this comment

Wednesday, 02 July 2008

2008-07-02

Hello World!

Google made the very best option for resizing and exporting photos for internet quality, it is Picasa2. It is fast to download, much faster than you can probably download one photo to the server for resizing, and also it can resize under your quality options any number of photos at once just-in-a-second.

But for watermarks idea is great, and still I would like to have all this thing as Firefox add-on. Those ad-ons are awesome, I use Google ftp add-on and html/css editor add-on and enjoy these stuffs.

Some day Firefox will have add-on-ed all multimedia complect for free, I guess.
Deborah Clark makes this comment

Wednesday, 28 May 2008

Nakul ~ AdvMediaMgr will extend J! and take it closer to being a perfect all-in-one solution!

I believe in your ability to accomplish this daunting task, and see it evolving it into an "uber-kul" extension!

BTW, Rodrigo's link is inspiring and just plain fun.

Below are some great links from Peter Freuh's site. Cheers!

http://www.ajaxprogrammer.com/examples/post_15/ImageEditor_20070128/?imageName=frog.jpg

Pete's two new videos to watch:
http://www.ajaxprogrammer.com/media/?videoId=459096941
http://www.ajaxprogrammer.com/media/?videoId=458854478
Nakul Ganesh S makes this comment

Wednesday, 14 May 2008

Thank You very much everybody for your encouragement.
They are the sparks that make me go further.
Cheers !
Robby Timmermans makes this comment

Wednesday, 14 May 2008

This looks really promising. You have a good grasp of what we are missing in terms of image management in Joomla. I hope you succeed in your project. Good luck and good coding !
Rodrigo makes this comment

Tuesday, 13 May 2008

Hey I find its a great idea maybe you could check this out: https://www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html
Ramchel makes this comment

Tuesday, 13 May 2008

Hi Nakul Ganesh, Great to see your initiatives.. Everybody thinks of doing something useful in their life but only few speak/discuss about it, even in that only one or two do it. I wish you all the best to be part of that one or two group. I'm great fan of Mambo later Joomla. I learned the nitty gritties of PHP while working on Mambo/Joomla, now with Joomla 1.5 I'm learning the nitty gritties of software engineering principles. Plainly speaking Joomla is not just CMS, its a secret tutorial. Discover!! Enjoy!! All the best once again.. --Ramchel
Mustafa Parvez makes this comment

Tuesday, 06 May 2008

Hey Nakul,

Congrats its awesome to see you on the very first page, feels really proud to see you here. I am working on a community project using Joomla, do you think we can collaborate and work on this if you have time, please mail me on parvez.mustafa@gmail.com
srikanta makes this comment

Tuesday, 06 May 2008

Hi Nakul.. good to see an indian at the forefront of developing joomla..Being a joomla fan from bangalore, i am very happy to see you here.. wish you all the best and lots of best wishes from Bangalore, India
Amy Stephen makes this comment

Sunday, 04 May 2008

Wow! That sounds really awesome. I love your enthusiasm and I really love it that you have a laser-sharp focus on what you want to accomplish this summer. When a developer can envision how (and why) people would find a feature helpful, it leads to all good things. Thanks for sharing your plans with us and for your contributions to the Joomla! community. Have fun!
Lalan makes this comment

Thursday, 01 May 2008

Hi Nakul, Thanks for promising us what it seems like a true media manager aka joomla photoshop One more, I was wondering if there was any Indian in the photos and I found you at first row first column. Thanks and all the best for your project!