Advanced image management

Imagecache Profiles

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Imagecache Profiles module allows you to set user profile pictures that are consistent throughout your site and allows avatars on the user profile pages to be a different size. The module also allows for style definitions to be defined for images used in Comments and Nodes.

The standard Image styles in Drupal 7 core are; thumbnail, medium and large. If a different Image style is desired, it can be created.

Part 1. Create a new Image style to use with ImageCache Profiles.

Here is an example of how to create a new Image style, your settings can vary.

Go to Configuration › Image styles. Click "Add style"

open style

add style

Input a Style name, for this example, make it "tiny":
After Style "tiny" is created, in the edit screen:
- select an EFFECT
- select "Resize" from the Select a new effect fieldgroup, and Select "add"
- set width and height to 20
- select "Add effect"
- select "Update style"

Part 2. Installation Instructions

Download, install and enable the ImageCache_Profiles module

profile select

Enable user pictures.

Go to Configuration › Account settings › Under PERSONALIZATION: Click "Enable user pictures."
If setting a default picture it should use a relative url path (ex. sites/default/files/default-picture.png)

Select the Custom Image style(s) that were added in Part 1, or use the Drupal 7 core default sizes:

Default Picture display style: Select the Image style to set the default user picture size throughout the site
Profile picture display style: Select the Image style to set the user picture size on a user's profile page

Set new profile image style

Comment picture display style: Select the Image style to set the user picture size within comments
Node picture display style: Select the Image style to set the user picture size within nodes

To prevent upscaling, these dimensions should be the dimensions of your largest preset (in this example it is 200):

Set picture minimum width in pixels: 200
Set picture minimum height in pixels: 200

Set up Picture settings at bottom of Account settings page:

Set picture maximum dimensions to 1600x1400
Set picture maximum file size to 1024
Set your picture guidelines text to: "Photo must be larger than 200x200 pixels." To prevent upscaling, these dimensions should be the dimensions of your largest preset.

Save configuration

Adding a profile picture to panels

If you and want to add an Imagecache profile picture to a profile panel page (including the one that comes default from Advanced Profile Kit module) , then you can add it very easily by editing a panel page (e.g. profile), go to content tab, then add a pane to one of the regions, then choose the User picure. and SAVE! There should now be a picture of the user, resized to your profile imagecache profile preset.