More thumbnail issues

Chisa

So for the album thumbnail - I've set the thumbnail size under Options > Themes > Crop Thumbnails to crop to 230x300px. All looks fine when I do my custom cropping of the thumbnails in admin view.

It has some issues when displaying however. I'm using:
<img src="<? echo getAlbumThumb( ); ?>" alt="<? echo getBareAlbumTitle(); ?>"/>

Which I thought should just grab the custom thumbnail I've created through the admin. It does crop the image to 230px wide, but for some reason is cropping the height then squishing it to 176px. This isn't an effect of the CSS - the thumbnail image itself is this size.

http://www.allyeska.com/index.php?album=vintageinspired

With a bit of experimenting, it looks like the thumbnail will happily crop correctly if the width is larger than the height, but if the height is larger than the width it crops + squishes. For example, I tried setting the height to 1300px with the width at 230px, and the squishing effect was several times worse than having it at 300px.

I've also tried using:

printCustomAlbumThumbImage(getBareAlbumTitle(), NULL, 230, 300, 230, 300);

But this doesn't take on my custom cropping.

Any ideas why thumbnail cropping doesn't work for portrait style images?

sbillard

You probably should not be supplying both the height and width for the thumb size. Unless all your images are the same dimensions, that will not work. (And since you have some that are portrait and some that presumbaly are landscape, they will NOT be the same dimensions.)

Do you want your thumbnails to all be landscape? If so just set the height variable to NULL.

Chisa

I'd prefer to give the option of landscape or portrait if possible. I just thought it was strange because it seems to crop to the correct size when cropping, just doesn't display that way!

sbillard

Look into the max size functions then.

Chisa

Will that display the custom crop? Where can I find more info on it?

acrylian

The maxspace functions do not crop. They size images to a fixed width x height space you set. Info on function as always on our user guide.