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title: Using ImageCache and ImageCrop for my Portfolio
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date: 2010-04-28
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excerpt:
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How to create thumbnail images using the ImageCache and ImageCrop modules.
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tags:
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- drupal
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- drupal-6
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- cck
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- imagecache
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- imagecrop
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- imagefield
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Whilst working on my own portfolio/testimonial website, I decided to have a
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portfolio page displaying the name of each site and a thumbnail image. For this
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Blog post, I'll be using a site called
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[Popcorn Strips](http://popcornstrips.com) which I built for a friend earlier
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this year as an example.
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I created a content type called 'Project' with a CCK ImageField called
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'Screenshot'. I created a project called
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[Popcorn Strips](http://popcornstrips.com), used the
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[ScreenGrab](https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/1146) add-on for Mozilla Firefox
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to take a screenshot of the website, and uploaded it to the project node.
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I created a View to display the published projects, and an ImageCache preset to
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create the thumbnail image by scaling and cropping the image to a size of
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200x100 pixels.
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Although, this automatically focused the crop on the centre of the image,
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whereas I wanted to crop from the top and left of the image - showing the site's
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logo and header.
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I installed the [ImageCrop](http://drupal.org/project/imagecrop) module, which
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add a jQuery crop function to the standard ImageCache presents. I removed the
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original Scale and Crop action and replaced it with a Scale action with a width
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of 200px.
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I then added a new 'Javascript crop' action with the following settings:
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- Width: 200px
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- Height: 100px
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- xoffset: Left
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- yoffset: Top
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