PNG Watermark?

I'm trying to upload the watermark I use in Gallery 2 into my Gallery 3 install. When I attempt to upload the PNG file, the dashboard blinks, then shows the upload box again, it doesn't seem to upload the PNG file. I tried it with a JPG file, and it worked fine, however, I am unable to keep the transparency in a JPG. Is this a bug? Or, is something wrong with my Gallery 3 install? Thanks.

I always use firefox, however, I'll give IE a shot with the same file.

Just tried IE, and it is doing the same thing.

PNG is attached. Thank you all for the help

I hate IE with a passion.... Thanks for testing it out, it's probably something on my server then. It's odd that it goes just fine for my gallery 2 install, but, bombs on my gallery 3 installation. I'll reload gallery 3 and try again.

Oh, and I'm using Imagemagik, although, I did try GD with the same result. Thanks again for the help, and for trying it out for me.

I'm able to upload other images with no problem, including that one into an album. http://shadowpioneer.com/gallery3/index.php/Misc And, I was able to upload JPG and GIF images to the watermark, just not PNG files. I tried three different PNG watermarks, with the same result. Hit upload, it flashes, and goes back to upload file.

Yep, the directory is there and writable. Is it possible for me to simply upload the .png there and use it?

Nope, didn't work, I'll toss up a second install of Gallery 3 as a test, and see if that one does, if not, I'll assume it's my server that's not allowing it.

@JamieRood.com: what's in your gallery3/var/logs error logs?
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@JamieRood.com: can you give me a dump of your tags table from the database, and provide me with the .png that you're trying to upload?
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I just upgraded to todays (9/12/2009) build of code from github hoping that maybe something had been fixed since beta 2 was released. However, I still cannot upload PNG files for watermarks, and I still get the message "22 of your photos are out of date. Click here to fix them." whenever I add or delete a watermark (jpg or gif).

My log files are empty.

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Firefox 3.5.2

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I'm sure it will, but here it is anyways.

If someone wants access to my gallery I can give it.

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The Active Toolkit is listed as ImageMagick version 6.3.9

I activated GD, but it still won't upload PNG watermarks.

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Ok I did a little digging into the code and I printed out some debug.
Here is the object for a watermark that works.

Form_Upload Object
(
    [data:protected] => Array
        (
            [class] => upload
            [value] => /home/ryanmc/public_html/gallery3/var/uploads/clearer_globe.jpg
            [name] => file
            [label] => Watermark
        )

    [protect:protected] => Array
        (
            [0] => type
            [1] => label
            [2] => value
        )

    [upload:protected] => Array
        (
            [name] => clearer_globe.jpg
            [type] => image/jpeg
            [tmp_name] => /tmp/phpNmRWRa
            [error] => 0
            [size] => 9242
        )

    [directory:protected] => /home/ryanmc/public_html/gallery3/var/uploads/
    [filename:protected] => 
    [method] => post
    [rules:protected] => Array
        (
            [0] => allow[jpg,png,gif]
            [1] => size[1MB]
            [2] => required
        )

    [matches:protected] => Array
        (
        )

    [callbacks:protected] => Array
        (
        )

    [is_valid:protected] => 1
    [errors:protected] => Array
        (
        )

    [error_messages:protected] => Array
        (
        )

)

Here is the watermark that did not work

Form_Upload Object
(
    [data:protected] => Array
        (
            [class] => upload
            [value] => 
            [name] => file
            [label] => Watermark
        )

    [protect:protected] => Array
        (
            [0] => type
            [1] => label
            [2] => value
        )

    [upload:protected] => Array
        (
            [name] => justechn_watermark_outline_1680.png
            [type] => image/png
            [tmp_name] => /tmp/phpjT1jZg
            [error] => 0
            [size] => 53020
        )

    [directory:protected] => /home/ryanmc/public_html/gallery3/var/uploads/
    [filename:protected] => 
    [method] => post
    [rules:protected] => Array
        (
            [0] => allow[jpg,png,gif]
            [1] => size[1MB]
            [2] => required
        )

    [matches:protected] => Array
        (
        )

    [callbacks:protected] => Array
        (
        )

    [is_valid:protected] => 
    [errors:protected] => Array
        (
            [invalid_type] => 1
        )

    [error_messages:protected] => Array
        (
        )

)

There are two things I noticed that are different and may matter
1. The value is empty in the Watermark that did not work

[data:protected] => Array
        (
            [class] => upload
            [value] => 
            [name] => file
            [label] => Watermark
        )

2. I get an invalid type from the watermark that did not work

[errors:protected] => Array
        (
            [invalid_type] => 1
        )

Hopefully this points to something that one of you can use to help me fix this.

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I am able to upload PNG files into albums without any problems. Does that make a difference?

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Nothing from either Apache or Gallery logs

No

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Upgraded, no joy.
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Please send me or nivekiam admin login info.
We are not abloe to reproduce this.

Dave
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paulcobb,
Got your PM and was a was able to add a png image to an album but it did not have transparency.
On further investigation you only have GD as a image toolkit available. See if you can install IM or GM and activate one of those toolkits.
Then once that is operational then you should be able to do watermarks.

Dave

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The issue I think is that your toolkit is not understanding the transparency properly in a normal album not a watermark.
if you compare the image I uploaded to your site versus the one on my site:
http://www.langleycom.com/gallery3/index.php/justechn_watermark_outline_1680.png
it maintained the transparency but on your site it did not.
let me upload your image to my site for comparison.

Dave
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@floridave I can see that it works. I am awaiting my hosting provider to respond re toolkits.
I still don't understand why the watermark upload routine will not work with .png. Is there some link to available toolkits and suitablility for image processing that is preventing it on my setup

Paul

Just to add more info. I switched to GD on my install and uploaded your PNG file. Transparency was destroyed. However, my version of GD, still applied the watermark. The transparency was still gone, but the watermark was still applied.

As for uploading working for PNG where uploading with the watermark module does not, they do use different methods.

Bottom line is that it looks like if you want PNG watermarks you have to use ImageMagick or possibly GraphicsMagick. But I'd try ImageMagick first. It'll be way more efficient to use ImageMagick over GD anyway, so it should be a win-win for you and your host.
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With ImageMagick it is not possible. Well o.k. Maybe it's not impossible. If you have the same versions of the compiler and other stuff on a local system you could probably compile ImageMagick statically. But I don't know very much about doing that. I simply type apt-get install imagemagick and it's done and gets updated with security updates when I update my system. Or at my shared host, years ago, I let them know that the version of ImageMagick they had on their servers had a security hole in it. Magically ImageMagick was updated across their 1000s of servers in a couple of days

You only have 2 options I see right now, well o.k. 3 4
1) Change hosts
2) Don't use PNGs
3) Watermark before uploading
4) Find a linux geek, possibly paying them, that can help get ImageMagick binaries for you. Don't know if it'll work or not. I know I helped someone who had used/found ImageMagick binaries that someone had put together for Typo3. This was a very, very, every old version of ImageMagick. While it appeared that it worked fine for what very little image processing Typo3 does, it totally failed for Gallery.

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Huh, that's weird. Can you go into system/libraries/Image.php and modify the code so that we can see what image type you've got there?

Change this code:

   305                  $image_info = getimagesize($overlay_file);                                            
   306                                                                                                        
   307                  // Check to make sure the image type is allowed                                       
   308                  if ( ! isset(Image::$allowed_types[$image_info[2]]))                                  
   309                          throw new Kohana_Exception('The specified image, :type:, is not an allowed im\
age type.', array(':type:' => $overlay_file));                                                                

to this:

   305                  $image_info = getimagesize($overlay_file);                                            
                        Kohana_Log::add("error", "image info: " . print_r($image_info,1));
   306                                                                                                        
   307                  // Check to make sure the image type is allowed                                       
   308                  if ( ! isset(Image::$allowed_types[$image_info[2]]))                                  
   309                          throw new Kohana_Exception('The specified image, :type:, is not an allowed im\
age type.', array(':type:' => $overlay_file));                                                                

(see the extra line below line 305. Then look in your error log for a string that says "image info" and report that back here. If I had to guess, I'd say that somethings wrong with the mime type detection on your system.
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emanuelis, what graphics toolkit are you using? If GD, try ImageMagick under Admin > Settings > Graphics
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nivekiam, I was using GD. When changed to ImageMagick (had to add "/usr/bin" to PATH in graphics.php) none of my mentioned problems disappeared.
Picture resize works both with GD and ImageMagick.
Will try GraphicsMagic later.

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