As part of the Product Solutions team, I have been working on a new feature for Activedition 4.1, build 8 that deals with image profiles.
Image profiles can be created on a per multimedia library basis. You can set a prefix and/or a suffix to be applied to the image name, the quality of the image and the maximum height and width you want the image to be.
The first profile you create is the pictures ‘main’ profile whereby every image that you upload into Activedition will take on these settings and become the main image. Any other profiles that are created will create sub pictures of the main picture and will be listed so in a treeview structure in the multimedia manager.
Profiles come in handy if you want to display smaller or larger images of the same image in certain parts of your website. Instead of manually editing an image, simply set up the profiles to do all of your resizing for you automatically.
Image profiles can also be used in Content Management Designer Templates where you specify the name of the profile of the library that the image is being held in and that particular image will be displayed on the screen. The same thing can also be used in meta data, whereby you specify an image profile name in an Activedition Meta tag which will display profile picture on screen to the user.
