The aspect ratio is broken when resizing

[jselesan]

I'm using file-upload on my express.js application to upload user profile pictures. The profile picture is 144x144, so I put these dimensions on the options, but the picture I get is not cropped to preserve aspect radio, and it looks ugly. Is there a way to crop instead of resize?

[arvindr21]

As of now no. BTW, I am uisng lwip to resize images. You can fork the repo and modify resize with crop if you want. -- Thanks.

[mycaule]

These two freemium cloud services seem interesting for remote storing and performing image operations. They also provide a REST API for the operations mentioned.

• Transloadit | NPM
• Cloudinary | NPM

[mycaule]

If the goal is to make a cloudinary clone, this page might help.
http://cloudinary.com/documentation/node_image_upload

The API is very well designed and documented.

[arvindr21]

We cannot rely on it for resize as uptime may not be guaranteed. Not sure if someone would like to take that risk in production.

[mycaule]

If the objective is to do a basic backend service for file storage and image processing --which is the kind of thing that cloudinary (images) or transloadit (images, videos, documents) does.

Good ideas can be taken from their design and how they present things to the end users and developers.

All these cloud services rely on Amazon instances or similar, it's not a matter of uptime but rather of data confidentiality. Groups or companies might want to keep files on their servers, which is why this package could be interesting.

[cm-rayalab]

you should not write on your npm webpage that image resize supports automatic height when is not working, please update and remove it from the page.

[arvindr21]

@cm-rayalab can you do anything to help us fix that?

[karan-kapoor90]

@arvindr21, any update on this please? This library you've created is really quite good! This resize thing seems to be the only remaining chunk in the armor.

[arvindr21]

I guess that issue was fixed with this PR: #40 and should be in the latest NPM release

[mycaule]

Here is the current techniques for lightweight image processing:
https://pusher.com/sessions/meetup/js-monthly-london/image-processing-and-manipulation-in-nodejs