Watermarks for Image Handler 2

[panzico]

Help...

I've installed Image Handler 2 on my Zen Cart 1.3.8 and am not able to get the Watermark feature to work. Also, on the home page and category pages, I do get a zooming effect (large image from small, not a medium image). On the product pages, I get a medium image and am able to click to view a large image in a new window. The watermarks are not working on any of my images, though I do have them installed, per the original README file.
When I go to Tools>Image Handler 2>Preview, I get this error message (several times):
Warning: imagepng() [function.imagepng]: Unable to open '/home/anaheimd/public_html/poodlesupply/bmz_cache/b/b0f493998f9ef653459006a1980f5f19.image.100x56.png' for writing: No such file or directory in /home/anaheimd/public_html/poodlesupply/includes/classes/bmz_image_handler.class.php on line 646

I've been through the manual many times and scoured the Image Handler2 thread.

Any suggestions would be wonderful...

[fairestcape]

Despite the ADMIN option in Image Handler to have zooming on Meduim Images, IH2 does not actually support this feature. Only small images can be zoomed - and in my experience, the small images must be 100px wide X 80px deep for the zoom to be effective.

The watermark must be a PNG file (Portable Network Graphic) format. With PNG's, you can set a transparent background colour. So you must use an image editor capable of creating and saving images as .png and make sure your watermark png files are loaded to the appropriate folders - (do this via ftp in binary transfer mode).

[panzico]

Thank you for your help.

Regarding the medium zoom, in the Cherry Zen demo at http://www.cherryzen.jadetrue.com/, the zoom on the small image is a medium image (main page, for example). My small image zooms are large images...I don't know why. I prefer the look of the medium images, until the click on "larger image" on the product pages.

Regarding the watermark, I'm just using the zen cart watermarks that came with IH2. I would be fine with them, but I just need them to work. They are already transparent png's.

[fairestcape]

The zoom dimensions of your small images should be those of your medium images. So set your medium image size in the images section of admin>>>configuration>>>images.

I'm not sure why you are struggling with the watermarks...