Image Manager

[HarryCornelius]

Hi

I have a client who sells camper vans. I've set up a site for them, but they want a way to use image manager to add 'SOLD' text over the image of vans which have been sold.

Does anyone know if there is am enhancement to Image Manager that can do this? Or a better (easier) way of doing it?

Many thanks,

Harry

[Rolf]

You can use the "watermark" feature of CGSmartImage, see http://www.cmscanbesimple.org/blog/buil ... ade-simple

[HarryCornelius]

Thanks for that.

Does this method allow the end user to easily add the text to one of their images in their image gallery?

[velden]

Another option is to use an extra 'sold' image or text that you display on top of the picture:

For example:

Use a <div style"position:relative"> around the image. And if sold add an extra div/span with text, or a 'sold' image with position:absolute inside the div.

[JohnnyB]

Harry,
what is being used to show the product image on their website? For example, are you using a content page, product module, cataloger, or somehow loading all images from a specified directory?

Depending upon how they are showing these on the web page, some nice template based logic or a custom field can be used to indicate if the image is sold. For example, when 'Sold' is checkmarked by the client, the template loads a solution similar to velden's.

[Rolf]

Does this method allow the end user to easily add the text to one of their images in their image gallery?

Yes, I just have a checkbox in the Products module...

Edit:
An example
Checkbox not checked, so no watermark http://buispost.eu/image-library/1030/l ... be-station
Checkbox checked and show watermark on image http://buispost.eu/image-library/1042/s ... st-company

[velden]

I don't think Image MANAGER has this feature. It is not ment to do stuff like this.

But you should use a module for this functionality (selling/displaying articles). That module should have a way to set a 'sold' flag (e.g. checkbox) so your template can do some logic for you.

[HarryCornelius]

Thank-you for all the responses.

Yes, I am loading all the images in for a directory specific to that model of van.

I think the logic & tickbox is the way ahead - I'll investigate.

If you're interested, the page (still in development) is at:
http://www.kpcleisure.co.uk/browse-our-stock.html

Thanks again,
Harry