Craft 3's Image Editor
by Ian Ebden
Like many Craft developers I'm really excited about this year's Craft 3 release. It's a major update with over 640 changes, including PostgreSQL, PHP 7, more powerful templating, the Plugin Store, and ridiculous speed and performance enhancements.
One of the biggest changes though is Craft's badass new image editor. From the makers of Craft:
Up to now I've been adding a custom 'Cropping Preference' dropdown to images in Craft so – for example – clients can avoid instances of heads being chopped off in photos. Craft 3's Focal Point is a much more useful solution. I can definitely see it becoming really powerful when serving 'art directed' images, where you might want different images with different Focal Points depending on the device/viewport width/orientation…
Early indications are that Craft 3 will be out of beta this summer, so stay tuned. More information available here.
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