Extending image style effects

Earlier in this chapter we've seen how basic image effects can be applied to pictures that users upload. We will introduce a new module now that will help us in further extending the effects pool available for users on a Drupal website.

The module in question is called ImageCache Actions, which originates from earlier Drupal versions where this functionality was referred to as ImageCache. Proceed to download (http://drupal.org/project/imagecache_actions) and install it. Notice that this module comes bundled with a bunch of other modules that should be enabled too: ImageCache Canvas Actions and ImageCache Color Actions.

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You may wonder what's the point in adding image effects? What is there to it? I'll then remind you of Instagram, a company whose entire product delivery was to enable users to take pictures from their smartphone and apply basic image effects to them. By the way, they recently also added a web application to accompany their mobile app product...