It helps editors quickly create optimized, article-ready images for news portals, magazines, blogs, and high-traffic publishing websites without external image editing tools.

The component supports JPG, PNG, and WEBP uploads and generates clean optimized output for consistent editorial publishing workflows.

Key Features:

• Generate article-ready images from JPG, PNG, and WEBP uploads
• Per-image output size selection (1200×800 / 1620×1080)
• Crop positioning and zoom controls
• Real-time AJAX preview without page reload
• Optional logo overlay support
• Optional watermark overlay support
• Instant image download
• Save generated images directly to Joomla image folders
• Automatic /images/YYYY/MM/ folder creation
• Optimized JPG compression for lightweight publishing
• Automatic filename sanitization for filesystem compatibility
• Lowercase filename normalization
• Space-to-hyphen filename conversion
• Joomla ACL permissions support
• Temporary preview cleanup system
• Joomla native update support

Designed for:

• News websites
• Editorial portals
• Magazine sites
• Blogs
• High-traffic Joomla publishing environments

Technical Requirements:

• Joomla 6+
• PHP 8.2+
• PHP GD extension with JPEG / PNG / WEBP support

DevArt Article Photo focuses on speed, simplicity, and practical editorial workflows, allowing administrators and editors to prepare properly sized images directly inside Joomla without relying on third-party desktop tools.

GNU GPL v3 or later.