No autosize to full-screen for slideshow?

kitskits Registered Users Posts: 22 Big grins
edited August 3, 2013 in SmugMug Support
Old site used to auto-size the pictures to full-screen after play 3-4 pictures. On new site, it never resizes to full screen and that sucks big time as 50% of screen space of my lovely NEC monitor gets wasted. See the blank black area around my pictures now.

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  • macromeistermacromeister Registered Users Posts: 490 Major grins
    edited August 2, 2013
    My gallery settings are set to 'original' for image size and when clicking the image for larger size or playing slideshow they do fill the screen. Like this one http://www.macromeister.co.uk/Images/Objectivity/i-XpVbwzh

    Your images need to be large enough in pixel dimensions to fill the screen though. As you can see on some of my other images the original size is not sufficient to fill the screen.
    I'm Rob Ashcroft - MACROMEISTER IMAGES . . . .
  • kitskits Registered Users Posts: 22 Big grins
    edited August 2, 2013
    Thank you for your suggestion but that didn't work. Also, on your linked gallery when I played slideshow your pictures looked even smaller than mine. Most of my recent galleries are taken with Sony RX100 which is 20 MP camera. I even checked my 24MP pictures taken with NEX-7 and same problem. Could be related to the monitor resolution. Mine is 27" monitor with 2560 X 1440 resolution. What screen size and resolution are you viewing? I tried on my android tablet with lower resolution and less than 10" screen and it does play full screen.
  • kitskits Registered Users Posts: 22 Big grins
    edited August 3, 2013
    Last couple of hours I've been working like a Software QA guy trying to test the new site:ivar:ivar

    This might help smugmug developers
    This is what I found, I have two monitors connected and my main one is 27" with 2560X1440 resolution and slideshows never play full-screen. My second monitor is 20" with 1680 X1050 resolution and slideshow plays full-screen.

    Now, the interesting part, if gallery display in smugmug style I move my window to the other monitor and click on SLIDESHOW, the slideshow will display black screen. I think the player is maybe confused with change in resolution. But, if I click on a thumbnail after moving the window to different monitor, the slideshow plays fine. Still no full-screen on higher resolution screen.

    Looks like your slideshow never uses the ORIGINAL and is using size -X3 which is only 1600 X 1067. Not good enough for good monitors. I think it probably is not playing full screen even on MacBook Pro Retina displays. Hope you guys soon generate -X4 and -X5 sizes to support high-res monitorsclap.gifclap
  • macromeistermacromeister Registered Users Posts: 490 Major grins
    edited August 3, 2013
    kits wrote: »
    Last couple of hours I've been working like a Software QA guy trying to test the new site:ivar:ivar

    This might help smugmug developers
    This is what I found, I have two monitors connected and my main one is 27" with 2560X1440 resolution and slideshows never play full-screen. My second monitor is 20" with 1680 X1050 resolution and slideshow plays full-screen.

    Now, the interesting part, if gallery display in smugmug style I move my window to the other monitor and click on SLIDESHOW, the slideshow will display black screen. I think the player is maybe confused with change in resolution. But, if I click on a thumbnail after moving the window to different monitor, the slideshow plays fine. Still no full-screen on higher resolution screen.

    Looks like your slideshow never uses the ORIGINAL and is using size -X3 which is only 1600 X 1067. Not good enough for good monitors. I think it probably is not playing full screen even on MacBook Pro Retina displays. Hope you guys soon generate -X4 and -X5 sizes to support high-res monitorsclap.gifclap

    I just replaced one of my shots with this one http://www.macromeister.co.uk/Images/Commercial/i-6xFsSdF It is now 2560x1810 in size. How does it look on your big monitor?

    My monitor is 1920x1080 and this shot fills the screen on one dimension (due to difference is aspect ratio between shot and screen), so it's scaling it down to fit my screen.
    I'm Rob Ashcroft - MACROMEISTER IMAGES . . . .
  • macromeistermacromeister Registered Users Posts: 490 Major grins
    edited August 3, 2013
    I meant to add. You are talking about your 24Mp camera shots, but that won't make any differemce. You could take a shot with a smartphone and scale it up to 2560 pixels in one dimension and it should fill your big screen on at least one side. It's the actual size of the displayed image that counts.
    I'm Rob Ashcroft - MACROMEISTER IMAGES . . . .
  • macromeistermacromeister Registered Users Posts: 490 Major grins
    edited August 3, 2013
    kits wrote: »
    Looks like your slideshow never uses the ORIGINAL and is using size -X3 which is only 1600 X 1067. Not good enough for good monitors. I think it probably is not playing full screen even on MacBook Pro Retina displays. Hope you guys soon generate -X4 and -X5 sizes to support high-res monitorsclap.gifclap

    I'm not sure about that. I changed my gallery option to X3. This shot of the knives is 750x750 (I just uploaded it) http://www.macromeister.co.uk/Images/Commercial/i-FFrKhzk As my screen is 1080px high if the X3 were 1067 as you say then surely this shot should almost fill the height? It doesn't - it fills about 3/4 of it.
    I'm Rob Ashcroft - MACROMEISTER IMAGES . . . .
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