Title: Plugin idea! Server-based, template-enabled image processing…
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Plugin idea! Server-based, template-enabled image processing…

 *  [WhitG](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whitg/)
 * (@whitg)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-idea-server-based-template-enabled-image-processing/)
 * While I am a web developer in the sense that I know HTML and CSS like the back
   of my hand, I am a designer first and foremost and have never wanted to delve
   into PHP territory. That’s one reason among many that I’m not the person to actually
   execute this idea, but I think it has legs.
 * PROBLEMS:
 * 1. WP end users don’t know how to properly edit/optimize photos before they upload
   them to their sites, and WP doesn’t do the best job at these tasks either.
 * 2. Most sites do well with a _specific_ image size/aspect ratio, which is why
   the above skills are needed, AND Retina/resolution independence is becoming more
   and more relevant to web design.
 * SOLUTION:
 * **A plugin that allows the site designer to create image processing “templates”
   for the site in question.** Let’s say, for example, that I’ve designed my site
   to leverage a decorative 300W x 400H photo on most regular site pages, which 
   therefore needs a 600W x 800H version for Retina devices. As a designer, I can
   create these images pretty quickly in a number of ways – Photoshop (with or without
   batch processing), freeware/shareware image processing apps (I’ve been through
   a few of these over the years), etc.
 * But the client is usually going to be clueless about the proper way to create
   such images – they’re limited to uploading them full-size (abort! abort!) and
   using WP’s “humble” cropping features. Fine for a casual blogger, maybe, but 
   not a business owner who cares about their brand.
 * So this plugin would allow them to choose the “Main Page Image” template (that
   the designer created) when they upload an image directly to a page/post, and 
   an engine sitting on the server will employ the parameters that the designer 
   has set up to crop the photo (and of course it would be great if there was a 
   mechanism to let the user choose the crop zone) and output right-sized, sharpened,
   optimized JPGs.
 * That’s all. Comments welcome. 🙂

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