Color Custom Options is a Magento extension for simple products. With Color Custom Options your customers can see how a product looks like in different colors, shapes or designs. This Magento extension associates drop-down custom options with images. To achieve this images are saved in folders for each simple product. If the Magento extension cannot find a certain thumbnail, placeholder thumbnails are used instead. Custom options with images and without images can be mixed freely. With this Magento extension you can use file types of your choice and mix them as you like: JPG, GIF or PNG. The Magento extension works with AJAX technology. In order to build the compound image, the extension overlays the images for the different custom options over each other. In this way you don’t have to save images for each possible combination of custom option values. You can even define different prices for the custom options.

The product configuration required by this Magento extension is identical with the standard configuration of simple products with custom options in Magento. In addition to the configuration of the products in Magento, you will need for each simple product that will be associated with the extension, one separate folder for this product that contains the images for its custom options. For each custom option value you will need two images – one thumbnail image, and one big image, that will be overlaid over the product image.

The compound image cannot be magnified with the default Magento zoom, but you could attach additional images to your product and have them pop-up in a new window. You can vary position and size of the thumbnails, as well as change the color of the border around the selected thumbnail. You can use your own custom set of thumbnails.

Compatible with Magento 1.3, Magento 1.4

The Color Custom Options package comes with detailed installation instructions.
This software requires an ionCube loader to be installed.