I’ve somehow found some amazing people who are interested in helping my with my image/file manipulation work for Drupal. Based on concepts that have been brewing in imagecache (dynamic image generation and manipulation, automated derivative generation, image processing automation) I’ve started an endeavor to break this stuff into usable discreet chunks.
The first bridge to cross is Transformer.module. Transformer.module handles transform plugins, creating transformations (batches of transforms), executing individual transforms, executing batch transformations, and providing js callbacks to transforms and transformations.
The next bridge will be revisiting imagecache and updating it to work with the transformer module as a back end.
The final end goal is an inline javascript image editor that will initially allow basic resize, crop, and scale functions. SnipShot is a rough model for what I want to do, but not quite there.
I’d like it to work with node previews and tinymce, so I could scale/crop inline with my content editing bringing the online content production completely within the browser.