mystifier_uk Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 Basically I have several products on my online shop but the different images are of various sizes and aspect ratios for example: 250x350 200x550 300x200 So when these differently sized images are put into thumbnail form some of them look skewed! Is there a way to keep the aspect ratio of the thumbnails within the preset thumbnail dimensions (i.e. 100x80) so they display properly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psynaptic Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 Basically I have several products on my online shop but the different images are of various sizes and aspect ratios for example: 250x350 200x550 300x200 So when these differently sized images are put into thumbnail form some of them look skewed! Is there a way to keep the aspect ratio of the thumbnails within the preset thumbnail dimensions (i.e. 100x80) so they display properly? Pick whichever dimension is most important for your layout and only define that one. Leave the other as 0 or blank. Are you using a thumbnail contrib? My Profile | Contribs I like most: 'On The Fly' Auto Thumbnailer, Active Countries, Header Tags Controller, Ultimate SEO URLs, UK Based osC, UK Postcode Validation, Open Featured Sets, UK Postcode Based Carrier Shipping Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystifier_uk Posted February 13, 2007 Author Share Posted February 13, 2007 Thanks Rich - that worked a treat! :thumbsup: I'm not using a Thumbnail Contribution, and at the moment my thumbnails look really rubbish! Is there a decent contribution you could recommend that re-sizes the thumbnails properly so that they don't look squashed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GemRock Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 Dont quite understand your question. Anyway there's three options here (just my suggestion): 1. do not use the default ratio 100:80, but then all your images wil show on the pages with their (different) original ratio/size; 2. use the default ratio 100:80, and make all your images according to that ratio; 3. change the default ratio to a value to your choice so that most of your images will fit into that ratio, and you subsequently make all your images according to that ratio. And finally, you know how this thing works, and you devise something that fit into your situation. Ken commercial support - unProtected channel, not to be confused with the forum with same name - open to everyone who need some professional help: either PM/email me, or go to my website (URL can be found in my profile). over 20 years of computer programming experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psynaptic Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 Dont quite understand your question. Anyway there's three options here (just my suggestion): 1. do not use the default ratio 100:80, but then all your images wil show on the pages with their (different) original ratio/size; 2. use the default ratio 100:80, and make all your images according to that ratio; 3. change the default ratio to a value to your choice so that most of your images will fit into that ratio, and you subsequently make all your images according to that ratio. And finally, you know how this thing works, and you devise something that fit into your situation. Ken I use image magic at the moment. There have been a few minor problems that I have now fixed and it's all working now. I found most of the answers in the support thread. There are other options that seem to do the same job. I have been meaning to try the others. I don't know why I haven't yet as you can always just make a complete backup then install anything to try it out . If you want to try something next just revert to the backup. My advice would be to backup your site completely and try all the contribs that sound like what you need. Some have more options such as image magic but it's a lot of extra code to add to your store. You might also experience problems with some rather than others due to your setup and how much you have hacked osc. My Profile | Contribs I like most: 'On The Fly' Auto Thumbnailer, Active Countries, Header Tags Controller, Ultimate SEO URLs, UK Based osC, UK Postcode Validation, Open Featured Sets, UK Postcode Based Carrier Shipping Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velveeta Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 Thanks Rich - that worked a treat! :thumbsup: I'm not using a Thumbnail Contribution, and at the moment my thumbnails look really rubbish! Is there a decent contribution you could recommend that re-sizes the thumbnails properly so that they don't look squashed? I've always used the on-the-fly image thumbnailer, and it was a snap to install and worked great... Also, the question of aspect ratios isn't nearly as important as the load times for those images... Even if you fix the aspect ratios, if you're not using an image thumbnailer, your site is forcing down the entire image file, and depending on your customers' connections and what size images you're using, this can kill the speed at which they load each of your pages... If you fix the aspect ratio, it'll just take that entire image and crunch it down to a display size of that ratio, but still download the entire full-sized image to their machine, so make sure you do install one of the thumbnail contributions :) Richard. Richard Lindsey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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