By DerrickG3 on

Is it possible to have an album of images that when you click on the image you can download a super large version of it in a format that is not supported via web (like and .EPS or .TIFF)

I am trying to make an online digital asset library where customers can see all of my product images and then be able to select which ones they would like to download to use for printing. Now these customers wont be buying the images, they will be offered for free once they have been added to the the user list as a customer.

I have looked at Gallery2, Acidfree Albums.... which seem great for uploading images but I cant seem to find anything for downloading them.

Ideally I would love to have a customer add a bunch of images to a collection and then be able to download that collection insteand of going thought all 1900 images and picking out one at a time.

Is this possible? I would even be happy if inside an acidfree album there was a link to the hi-res file that they could just click on to download.

Any suggestions would be great. Keep in mind I am new to Drupal ;)

Thanks,

Derrick

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Comments

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

"downloading" images via a web browser is just a matter of right clicking and selecting "save as...". Basically, you just need to have a regular image link that points to the .eps or .tiff file instead of the image itself (ie. <a href="/files/downloads/image001.eps"><img src="/files/images/image001.jpg"></a>). You should be able to create this with the cck, imagefield, and views modules pretty easily.

For the zip functionality you could look at the http://drupal.org/project/pclzip module-- i've not tried it so i have no clue. Alternatively you could write a script to do it.

Lee 007’s picture

Lee 007 commented

I am also looking to develop an image bank. I run a small private advertising company and am quite simply tired of handing my money over to getty or corbis whenever I need imagery for a client's work. I have a team of designers at my disposal although they are currently not fully aware of my desire to build an image bank. If anyone out there can advise on to how to best get this done your input will be greatly appreciated.

Lee 007