Thumbnail images

[visc]

Hi,

 

The problem i'm facing now is jagged thumbnail images. At the localhost, it looks fine but not on live shop. If i enlarge the image, it looks fine but the thumbnail images you can't see it clearly. Pls check at my live shop and hopefully hv some sort of solution for this. :)

 

http://www.replicawatcheshouse.com

 

visc

[jonquil]

Hi,

 

The problem i'm facing now is jagged thumbnail images. At the localhost, it looks fine but not on live shop. If i enlarge the image, it looks fine but the thumbnail images you can't see it clearly. Pls check at my live shop and hopefully hv some sort of solution for this. :)

 

http://www.replicawatcheshouse.com

 

visc

 

OMIGOD! For items with that fine detail, you should be doing custom thumbs. The reason they look distorted is that you're shoving a 640x480 into an 80x80. I could really do wonders for your thumbnails... This is a travesty...

 

jon

[Samsbc12]

OMIGOD! For items with that fine detail, you should be doing custom thumbs. The reason they look distorted is that you're shoving a 640x480 into an 80x80. I could really do wonders for your thumbnails... This is a travesty...

 

jon

 

not to mention killing your bandwidth. install http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...rch,image+magic

or pay me and ill do it for you

[visc]

Hi,

 

I already installed the contribution file to my site but i'm clueless why the images are still distorted. The reason why I kept the file 640x480 is because I have popup-enlarged-image in the product's info page and that the only way ppl could see the watch clearly. If I resize all images in imagecache folder, is it going to help?

 

I'm a newbie, pls help.

 

visc

[jonquil]

This is just my professional opinion and certainly not a bash on thumbnail contributions that benefit many, but there is no automated substitute for quality-looking thumbs IF the product is very fine in detail. In this case, thumbnails need human intervention.

 

This means taking the full-size image, resizing it down (or cropping the best bits for the thumbnail), adjusting it in a photo editor and saving that adjustment under another file name. Both images will be clear but most importantly, the thumbnail will not look distorted.

 

Be sure you're consistent with the proportions. I know nothing about thumbnail contributions. For my site, I use custom thumbs of 115x115. When clicked, they open to the large image of 300x300. A simple (yet brilliant) code snippet saved my arse and I no longer use the popup function. I also only show one image per product but I have the flexibility of creating a teaser thumbnail, yet showing the front and back of the product in one large image that appears on the product_info.

 

In the case of these watches, the entire large image need not even show in the thumbnail. Rather, a portion of the watch can show, which would entice visitors to click to enlarge where they can view the entire photo.

 

Heck, you could pay ME to make your replica thumbs look like the real thing. What's the Ringgit to the Dollar now anyway?

 

Don't people buy on looks? Could be why I'm still single! :thumbsup:

 

jon