how do you lock the aspect ratio of loaded images ?

[terryt]

Hi everyone - I have just uploaded a version of os commerce to my hosting space. Right now, I'm not sure which version of os commerce I have. Anyway, I started out by creating a few products, with images. The problem that I'm having is that the images that I have loaded are being distorted (stretched vertically, compressed horizontally). Could anyone tell me what I can do to correct this ?

thanks, TT

[Jack_mcs]

The image size is set in admin->images->small image width (and height). You need to play with them to get it to look right sometimes. It depends on your original images. If they are all different dimensions, then it won't work properly. Setting one of the values to blank will sometimes help. Installing one of the autothumnailer contributions will make it so the images always look right and will probably speed up your shop too.

 

Jack

[terryt]

Thanks for the info Jack. Would you happen to know where I can go to get the auto thumbnailer ?

The other thing I suppose I could do is to make all me images the same size before uploading them ? I think I'll try your suggestion of setting one dimension as blank and let you know how that worked out.

[Jack_mcs]

There are a number of them but I think this one is considered one of the better ones.

 

Jack

[terryt]

There are a number of them but I think this one is considered one of the better ones.

 

Jack

 

 

Just to finish up this thread, I tried what Jack had suggested (remove the size parameters from one dimension of the images) and it worked.