Images are black

[Mr Tee]

At the moment I am having to use GD as the resize method. Upload pictures OK into Upload, but when they are uploaded from Database to the gallery, they are just black. thumb/microthumb and final.

Any ideas please?

[chriz]

I had the same problem using GD1.
Use GD2

Chriz

[Mr Tee]

I wish I could, I only have GD1 available on the server.

I have a server, PHP and MySql installed on my own computer. Could I run the gallery on my site and use my own server, if I installed ImageMagic on it?

[Evanrich]

just upload manually . i was never able to get the ftp upload thing to work... it would just create a bunch of weird file names... so I continue to do what I've been doing forever... upload the pictures manually.

[Pekka]

evanrich wrote:
just upload manually . i was never able to get the ftp upload thing to work... it would just create a bunch of weird file names... so I continue to do what I've been doing forever... upload the pictures manually.

"Bunch of weird file names" sounds like a wrong profile command in ImageMagick. Whenever you feel like it you could give it another try, and mail me if you still have problems.

[Mr Tee]

OK after a great deal of experimentation I find: If I upload an image original size (1.5Mb to 2Mb) I finish with Black images.

If I resize the original to 560pix (longest) and do not use the resize in EE, everything is OK, the thumbs and Microthumbs are not too bad. I will have to put up with GD1 until my Host decide between the if they have ImageMagick or not!!

I have had two emails from them, one states "we do not have ImageMagick and it is too much processing to install!

The other (1 day after the first and from another techi) states "Yes we do have ImageMagick installed"

Waiting for a third opinion Haaaa.

Otherwise great system you have.

[Darter]

I am seeing the same results with my installation. I used the following workflow:

1. download images from 300D camera to local directory
2. use ee ftp with gd2 resizing to upload to server and resize

I discovered something rather interesting though with this procedure. I uploaded (in the same batch) images that followed the above workflow and images that also included a resize/save-for-web step in photoshop prior to step 2 above. The images that were resized in photoshop turned out perfect in all 5 resizes (large, med, small, th, and microth). But in that same upload batch, the jpegs that came directly off my camera were all black. They were all resized properly in all 5 sizes, but all were black.

Any suggestions of where to start looking?


Oh, and since this is my first post, I most certainly owe Pekka a great deal of thanks for producing such a fine gallery package. I installed 1.22 over the weekend, and now I'm enjoying 1.5RC4 quite a bit! Thanks Pekka!!! :mrgreen:

[Darter]

After a little more experimenting, I'm seeing the following results:

Only with images that are not opened in Photoshop, in other words, straight from the camera to local hdd to ee with built-in eeftp, the files upload to the upload directory just fine. These images are viewable. The resizing using GD2 makes all of the correct sizes in the correct folders of the gallery, but all of those sizes are black. The originals in the upload dir remain fine.

And to recap, if I open and save the files in Photoshop (v. 6.01) before uploading and resizing, everything works as it should.

Any ideas? TIA!

[Darter]

Another thing I've noticed:

The images that are coming up black happen to be listed in grey text in the filenames box on the upload page. The images that are working okay are listed in black text. Any correlation, or does the listing color have an unrelated meaning?