#2069 - Improved thumbnailing, including face detection

Identifier #2069
Issue type Feature request or suggestion
Title Improved thumbnailing, including face detection
Status Closed (rejected)
Handling member Chris Graham
Addon core
Description Cloudinary provide some great transformation options:
http://cloudinary.com/documentation/image_transformations

It would be cool if we could do more of this natively. I think we do most things well, but really we could do with:

1) Face detection

2) A set of unit tests to make sure all the thumbnailing options continue to work correctly. Perhaps including a manual test that renders out a whole load of different images to review manually.

3) Documentation showing screenshots of all the options, like Cloudinary do in their help

4) A hooks system so that additional filters may be coded up and specified to the THUMBNAIL symbol

5) Tidied up code. Currently the new thumbnailer is kind of bolted around the old thumbnailer. That has some advantages, but probably a single implementation would be cleaner

6) Adjust the semantics so that the default filenames come from the URLs as a whole (as often multiple URLs have the same filename), and the default directory is uploads/website_specific rather than auto-detected (to avoid thumbnails being strewn around the filesystem)
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