Mr DMAN

Just a quick one I hope. Trying to add roundy corners to my .jpgs. The rounded corner config page states :

"Note: the rounded corners effect uses true alpha transparency masking. This means that this effect will fail to be saved on jpegs unless you either

* convert the image to PNG (using the coloractions filter for that),
* underlay a solid color (using coloractions-alpha-flatten) or
* underlay a background image (canvasactions-underlay)

as a later part of this imagecache pipeline. "

I don't want to convert the image to a .png, but I don't know which actions coincide with the other 2 possibilities. It seems that the links have changed so there is no longer a coloractions-alpha-flatten, but the helper text remains unchanged.

Please help a poor soul for whom alpha transparencies and filters are a baffling mystery.

Thanks

Dave

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dman commented

If you have imagecache_coloractions enabled (it's a different module from the canvasactions that cuts the corners) you should see "Add Alpha Transparency - Adjust transparency." at the top of the available actions list.
Add that at the end of the processing pipeline and choose 'flatten' against a color of your choosing.
That's what "coloractions-alpha-flatten" is shorthand for.

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El Bandito commented

Thanks for your swift response.

I wonder if there is a little bug here ? When I add the conversion to .png as the last item in my pipeline the rounded corners work. However if I add a flatten action as suggested they only appear on images that were originally .pngs and not the .jpgs.

Regards

Dave

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dman commented

Could be a bug. It's working for me, but that does sound like the symptom that happens if the alpha-flattening didn't run at all.
Not sure how to replicate.

Can you confirm that the pngs that get saved flattened actually flatten onto color? Or are they just transparent still?

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dman commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

No response, probably worked it out

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intyms commented
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it's working for me too.
attached are my settings.

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miche
Location NH, USA
commented

The screenshot of your settings was what I needed. It worked perfectly. Thank you!

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mserinjane commented

Worked perfectly, thanks.

Three Actions
1. Scale And Crop 161x161
2. Rounded Corners Radius: 16px
3. Alpha Transparency Flatten : #ffffff

Don't forget to flush your caches (and quite possibly the imagecache flush found next to your imagecache preset)

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scatteredbrainV commented

[Hi. It's not working for me. I've tried all of these preset, I've cleared and flush both the cache and the imagecache presets, but it's not working. Any clue?]

Never mind: I solved it. I forgot to change a preset in the views gallery module, that prevented rounded corners to appear.