# \[ANNOUNCE\] node-red-contrib-image-output (major version)

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/announce-node-red-contrib-image-output-major-version/19802>\
**Category:** Share Your Nodes\
**Created:** [1 January 2020 21:42 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/announce-node-red-contrib-image-output-major-version/19802 "2020-01-01T21:42:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![BartButenaers](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/bartbutenaers/32/10476_2.png) [@BartButenaers](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/BartButenaers)\
**Post date:** [1 January 2020 21:42 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/announce-node-red-contrib-image-output-major-version/19802/1 "2020-01-01T21:42:50Z")

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Hi folks,

A new attempt to reduce my Node-RED todo list ...

Good news for the users that are experimenting with cameras and other image related stuff. The last two weeks I have been spending some time with our friend Dave (@dceejay) to create a new major version for the [node-red-contrib-image-output](https://github.com/rikukissa/node-red-contrib-image-output) node.

So **LOTS** of thanks to Dave for reviewing all my pull request, criticize them, demolish them, re-implement them, and finally publish them on NPM 😂

Here is a summary of the changes:

- Beside to buffers and base64 encoded strings, now it also allows **Jimp image objects** as input.

- It is now possible to **resize** the images automatically (on the server side) to their final **thumbnail** size, to reduce the amount of data traffic that needs to be send - across the websocket channel - to the flow editor. Because this node causes very rapidly a non-response browser session by overloading the websocket ...

- The streaming of the images (at server side) can be stopped and (re)started by a simple click on the **button** :

- The thumbnail image is automatically **hidden** , when no image is being supplied.

- The **readme** page has been extended with example flows and demo's.

This new version is available on NPM already:

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/2X/2/27576b1733b2e0960efe345da7662b3d64e51646.png)

Now this really has become the 'Debug' node for images ...  
Have fun with it!!

Dave & Bart