Hello all,

I’m relatively new to EE and trying to setup CE Image for doing image management/manipulation across my site. Does anyone have any advice for how I should set the upload destination to use CE Image properly?

The installation of CE Image talks about creating a “made” directory within “images” off the root. I did that, but I don’t know if that’s what I should point to as the upload destination for my channel in the control panel, or if that’s the directory that it will use to dynamically create images and thus, I shouldn’t mess with it.

Any help is appreciated!

Hello socialjoe,

I am going to move this over to the Community Help Forum. You might get a better response if you contact Causing Effect who are the developers of CE Image.

Thanks,

Hi socialjoe.  The “made” folder is simply where CE Image will store the resized and cached versions of the images you choose to resize with its front-end tags.  It has no interaction with your file upload preferences at all - so you have complete freedom to establish your upload directories however you like.  What CE Image will do is mirror that within the made directory so that your cached images are stored in a similar structure.  For example, if you have an uploads folder of uploads/about in which you store a photo called portrait.jpg, and in your template you use CE image to create a new 200x200 version of that image, CE image will create a file called portrait_200_x_200.jpg (or something like that - I can’t remember the exact naming convention) and place it into a folder it will create called /made/about (mirroring your file upload directory).

Make sense?

Yep. Thanks for the info!