how to customize thumbnails

Gary Glass

I see that some people have customized the thumbnails for their galleries and/or photos. For instance, this beautifully designed site:

http://www.pristine-light.com/

has all square thumbnails (regardless of the aspect ratio of the photos).

How do I do that?

Andy

Gary Glass wrote:

I see that some people have customized the thumbnails for their galleries and/or photos. For instance, this beautifully designed site:

http://www.pristine-light.com/

has all square thumbnails (regardless of the aspect ratio of the photos).

How do I do that?

hiya gary!

underneath your photo, there's a menu, choose photo tools>zoom thumbnail and follow the instructions. don't forget to come back and let us know how you made out

cheers

Gary Glass

Thanks! and suggestions!

andy wrote:

hiya gary!

underneath your photo, there's a menu, choose photo tools>zoom thumbnail and follow the instructions. don't forget to come back and let us know how you made out

cheers

Hey, thanks! Works like a charm.

Now let me make a couple of suggestions:

1. When I edit the thumbnail, and click "save", take me back to the photo, not all the way out to the gallery. That way, I could click "next" and go to the next photo.

2. Remember my choices. When I go to edit the thumb on the next photo, remember that I had picked 1x1 on this page, and default to that. Treat other options the same.

3. When I edit the thumb on a photo that I've already done before, default to showing me what the edit was on that photo.

4. When logged in, show me the thumbs and the photos together in one place (in the gallery). So I can easily see which ones I've changed.

5. Gimme a Cancel button on that edit thumb screen.

6. How about calling the link something like "Customize thumbnail" rather than "Zoom Thumbnail"?

Andy

Gary Glass wrote:

Hey, thanks! Works like a charm.

Now let me make a couple of suggestions

you're most welcome, gary! the guys will see this - thanks so much for the valuable input, it's really appreciated.

gblotter

Gary Glass wrote:

Hey, thanks! Works like a charm.

Now let me make a couple of suggestions:

1. When I edit the thumbnail, and click "save", take me back to the photo, not all the way out to the gallery. That way, I could click "next" and go to the next photo.

2. Remember my choices. When I go to edit the thumb on the next photo, remember that I had picked 1x1 on this page, and default to that. Treat other options the same.

3. When I edit the thumb on a photo that I've already done before, default to showing me what the edit was on that photo.

4. When logged in, show me the thumbs and the photos together in one place (in the gallery). So I can easily see which ones I've changed.

5. Gimme a Cancel button on that edit thumb screen.

6. How about calling the link something like "Customize thumbnail" rather than "Zoom Thumbnail"?

My suggested enhancement:

How about a "Zoom Thumbnail (Bulk)" option. The default selection for a 1x1 thumbnail usually ends up being acceptable for my purposes. The bulk function would allow me to customize all the thumbnails in a gallery in one operation. Then I could go back and fix any individual thumbnails where the default cropping doesn't look quite right.

Mike Lane

Skyes Art wrote:

Hey Andy
(or helpful and knowledgeable people with digital grins=)
I am in need of help and I HAVE searched so forgive me if this has already been answered.
I have my portraits gallery in the “all thumbs” option and need to change the number of thumbnails across (left to right) from 6 to 10, so I fit more in the page as a square block rather then longwise….

http://www.skyesart.com/gallery/1836137

Is that a possibility??

I REALLY appreciate the help, if anyone knows how to do this.

Thanks

Sky
www.skyesart.com

If it's just for that gallery try this:

.gallery_1836137 #allthumbs,
.gallery_1836137 #allthumbs #photos {width:1020px;}
.gallery_1836137 #allthumbs .photo {margin:0; padding:0; width:102px}

Is that what you're looking for?

Mike Lane

Skyes Art wrote:

YES! Thank you... Now I don't see in the code you sent me where is specifies how many thumbs per row.. so that I can play with it… Is it in the width?

Thank you again.

Well it all works in unison. The width of the landscape-oriented shots is 100 pixels and when you add in the width of the border (which is 1 pixel on each side - I took out the margins and padding so that was no concern) the widest you'll get for each thumb is 102 pixels. So that's where the 102 pixels came from. Then my BS in mathematics came in handy when I swiftly multiplied that 102 pixels by your requested number of thumbs (10) and got 1020 for the container element for the thumbs and its container as well.

Make sense? You can either make the 1020px smaller or you can make the 102px larger to reduce the number of thumbs per row.

pat.kane

gblotter wrote:

How about a "Zoom Thumbnail (Bulk)" option...

Just in case you weren't aware of it, there is a bulk zoom thumbnail hack in the SmugMug APIs, Hacks & Tricks forum at http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=26959

If smugmug is going to implement the feature themselves, I want it done right, and that's not by defaulting to a centered 1x1 zoom. The hack clearly demonstrates that a bulk feature can meet both of our needs -- yours to have a one click solution (well, almost) and my need to have total control over the zoom.

Mike Lane

pat.kane wrote:

Just in case you weren't aware of it, there is a bulk zoom thumbnail hack in the SmugMug APIs, Hacks & Tricks forum at http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=26959

If smugmug is going to implement the feature themselves, I want it done right, and that's not by defaulting to a centered 1x1 zoom. The hack clearly demonstrates that a bulk feature can meet both of our needs -- yours to have a one click solution (well, almost) and my need to have total control over the zoom.

psst. You're replying to a post written in September 2005.

jchin

Although this was an old 2005 thread ... it is what I'm looking for ... the link to the bulk zoom thingy.

pat.kane

Mike Lane wrote:

psst. You're replying to a post written in September 2005.

what, you want me to pay attention? I can't afford to pay attention, especially after rutt sold me one of his lenses

Mike Lane

pat.kane wrote:

what, you want me to pay attention? I can't afford to pay attention, especially after rutt sold me one of his lenses

don't you know that rutt's lenses only work in lab?