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https://github.com/robwierzbowski/jekyll-picture-tag

Easy responsive images for Jekyll.
https://github.com/robwierzbowski/jekyll-picture-tag

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Easy responsive images for Jekyll.

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# Jekyll Picture Tag



## Help Wanted



My life just got a lot busier; I'd really like a maintainer or two to help. I'm not abandoning JPT,

I just don't have a ton of time to put into hacking on it.



If you've been learning Ruby and you want to move beyond tutorials and throwaway projects, I'd love

to hear from you. I'd be happy to help you gain experience and credibility, if you're willing to

help me maintain this project!



If you're interested, contact me: [email protected]



![Logo](docs/logo.png)



**Responsive Images done correctly.**



It's simple to throw a photo on a page and call it a day, but doing justice to users on all

different browsers and devices is tedious and tricky. Tedious, tricky things should be automated.

[This blog post further elaborates on that theme.](https://robert-buchberger.com/blog/2021/responsive_images.html)



Jekyll Picture Tag automatically builds cropped, resized, and reformatted images, builds several

kinds of markup, offers extensive configuration while requiring none, and solves both the art

direction and resolution switching problems with a little YAML configuration and a simple template

tag.



## Why use Responsive Images?



**Performance:** The fastest sites are static sites, but if you plonk a 2mb picture of your dog at

the top of a blog post you throw it all away. Responsive images allow you to keep your site fast,

without compromising image quality.



**Design:** Your desktop image may not work well on mobile, regardless of its resolution. We often

want to do more than just resize images for different screen sizes, we want to crop them or use a

different image entirely.



## Why use Jekyll Picture Tag?



**Developer Sanity:** If you want to serve multiple images in multiple formats and resolutions, you

have a litany of markup to write and a big pile of images to generate and organize. Jekyll Picture

Tag is your responsive images minion - give it simple instructions and it'll handle the rest.



## Features



* Generate piles of cropped, resized, and converted image files.

* Generate corresponding markup in several different formats.

* Configure it easily, or not at all.

* Make Lighthouse happy.



## Documentation



## Changelog



Recent releases:



* 2.1.1 20 July, 2024

  * Don't provide Q setting for PPM images - thanks to @dichiban for [#309](https://github.com/rbuchberger/jekyll_picture_tag/pull/309)

  * Fix alpha premultiplication - thanks to @KaarlisCaune for [#302](https://github.com/rbuchberger/jekyll_picture_tag/pull/302)

* 2.1.0 29 January, 2024

  * Check whether the vips CLI is installed before trying to use it. Thanks to @philrb for

    [#299](https://github.com/rbuchberger/jekyll_picture_tag/pull/299)

  * Update minimum required mocha version to maintain compatibility with minitest

* 2.0.4 August 16, 2022

  * Fix backend format support detection for new versions of libvips & imagemagick

* 2.0.3 April 1, 2021

  * Improve backend format support detection

* 2.0.2 March 31, 2021

  * Do not pass a quality argument when generating PNG files.

    * It only works on newer versions of vips, breaking builds when using older

      versions (such as when deploying to netlify.)

    * It's not remarkably useful in the first place.

* 2.0.1 March 31, 2021

  * Select imagemagick deliberately when appropriate, rather than simply rescuing all vips errors

    and trying again. This will stop JPT from suppressing useful vips errors.

* **2.0** March 25, 2021 - [Migration guide](https://rbuchberger.github.io/jekyll_picture_tag/users/notes/migration_2)

  * Switch from ImageMagick to libvips.

    * 🚀🔥🔥**MUCH MORE FASTER**🔥🔥🚀

    * Will still attempt to use imagemagick if libvips cannot handle a

      particular image format.

    * Eliminate the ImageMagick v7 on Ubuntu pain we've been dealing with for so

      long.

  * Require Ruby >= 2.6, support Ruby 3.0

  * Require Jekyll >= 4.0

  * Cropping is changing.

    * We now use the libvips

        [smartcrop function](https://www.rubydoc.info/gems/ruby-vips/Vips/Image#smartcrop-instance_method),

        which does some magic to keep the most useful part of the image.

    * Geometry is renamed to 'crop', and reduced to simple aspect ratios only. (`width:height`)

    * Gravity is gone, replaced by 'keep' which is translated to a libvips

        [interestingness](https://www.rubydoc.info/gems/ruby-vips/Vips/Interesting) setting.

  * Add stock presets and media queries, under the `jpt-` prefix.

  * Add `format_quality` default settings for webp, avif, and jp2.

  * Add image-format-specific write options.

  * Overhaul user input handling; we can now validate inputs and give error

    messages which are less useless. Stronger validation and nicer errors will be added in future

    releases.

  * Drop support for `markup_presets` and `media_presets`. They are now

    officially and only `presets` and `media_queries`.

  * Improve docs with an introductory tutorial and 'how-to' flow.



## Help Wanted



Writing code is only part of the job; often the harder part is knowing what needs to be changed. Any

and all feedback is greatly appreciated, especially in regards to documentation. What are your pain

points? See the [contributing

guidelines](https://rbuchberger.github.io/jekyll_picture_tag/devs/contributing), or the

[issues](https://github.com/rbuchberger/jekyll_picture_tag/issues) page for more.