Problem with different sizes of thumbnails

pgman

Hi,

I have: http://photos.foto-biz.com/Sritch/Cats

2 rows with 10 thumbnails. The second row is taller than the first one. How do I set so that all the thumbnails in the gallery are the same size as the second row?

Thanks

WinsomeWorks

pgman wrote: »

Hi,

I have: http://photos.foto-biz.com/Sritch/Cats

2 rows with 10 thumbnails. The second row is taller than the first one. How do I set so that all the thumbnails in the gallery are the same size as the second row?

Thanks

The New SmugMug changes appearances in that kind of gallery or page every time you refresh it. I refreshed it a few times & got a different view every time. Sometimes, the two rows are the same. I don't know if there's much you can do-- I think I've seen that those thumbs aren't adjustable right now, but you may wanna check more in the customization forum cuz I definitely saw people wanting to make changes. There's a whole thread with frequently-asked-for modifications. Beautiful cats, btw!!

pgman

WinsomeWorks wrote: »

The New SmugMug changes appearances in that kind of gallery or page every time you refresh it. I refreshed it a few times & got a different view every time. Sometimes, the two rows are the same. I don't know if there's much you can do-- I think I've seen that those thumbs aren't adjustable right now, but you may wanna check more in the customization forum cuz I definitely saw people wanting to make changes. There's a whole thread with frequently-asked-for modifications. Beautiful cats, btw!!

Actually the "dumb" part or the interesting part is that first they all display larger, then the first row shrinks in size.

So somewhere in the Javascript, "they screw up".

Syv

beardedgit

It's not dumb, it's working as it should.

pgman

beardedgit wrote: »

It's not dumb, it's working as it should.

Since it works as it should, how do I stop it? I want the larger thumbnails.

Syv

phaserbeam

pgman wrote: »

So somewhere in the Javascript, "they screw up".

Syv

Nope... this is how the collage landscape style gallery works. This is not a Thumbnail view where all photos do always have the same size (too bad it is always a square size...).

The Collage gallery style intents to be "organic"... different on every view. I have a gallery with hundreds of photos, all with a aspect ratio of 3:2. With organic/collage landscape style every row (sometimes every 2nd or 3rd) has a different size.

If you want to show your photos with original aspect ratio and multiple photos per row you do not have any other choice. Thumbnail view always shows square thumbnails but does not respect manually crops (it always uses a centered crop, bad idea). Journal view always show one column. Collage Portrait is like Collage landscape, but at least all photos do have the same width. hight differes on aspect ratio (3:2 or 2:3). I'm unhappy with the length of each column (some ar much longer then others) but i don't use this style much.

There is currently no good gallery style that shows all photos in the same size and uncropped except the SmugMug view. That's why i use that as default. If Thumbnails would allow non-square thumbs i would use that more often.

P.S. You can't change the size of collage landscape thumbs, this only works on custom pages with a multiple photos content block. My "ACTIVITY" page has such a setup where i use collage landscape with larger thumbs and depending on the photos a max count of 2 or 3 photos next to each other. This does not work for galleries...

WinsomeWorks

That's a bummer (phaserbeam) that all of those styles are that limited. I especially don't understand the crop limitations. And why there's no style that allows for verticals & horizontals to be displayed together without discriminating against one. Anyway, pgman-- here's that thread I mentioned. http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=237930&page=28 There's nothing in it for this particular issue, like phaserbeam said, but you may find other goodies there. The first post in that thread has a list of all the modifications & then descriptions of how to accomplish each tweak.

pgman

phaserbeam wrote: »

Nope... this is how the collage landscape style gallery works. This is not a Thumbnail view where all photos do always have the same size (too bad it is always a square size...).

The Collage gallery style intents to be "organic"... different on every view. I have a gallery with hundreds of photos, all with a aspect ratio of 3:2. With organic/collage landscape style every row (sometimes every 2nd or 3rd) has a different size.

If you want to show your photos with original aspect ratio and multiple photos per row you do not have any other choice. Thumbnail view always shows square thumbnails but does not respect manually crops (it always uses a centered crop, bad idea). Journal view always show one column. Collage Portrait is like Collage landscape, but at least all photos do have the same width. hight differes on aspect ratio (3:2 or 2:3). I'm unhappy with the length of each column (some ar much longer then others) but i don't use this style much.

There is currently no good gallery style that shows all photos in the same size and uncropped except the SmugMug view. That's why i use that as default. If Thumbnails would allow non-square thumbs i would use that more often.

P.S. You can't change the size of collage landscape thumbs, this only works on custom pages with a multiple photos content block. My "ACTIVITY" page has such a setup where i use collage landscape with larger thumbs and depending on the photos a max count of 2 or 3 photos next to each other. This does not work for galleries...

With SM1, I used the image montage of: http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=235991 with a height of 350px. That's what I woukld like to come close to. I don't have to be exact, but something large. If doesn't have have to be a full image in each thumbnail, people will see the full image when clicking on it.

The frustrating part is that it's there, they already come at the right size, then something in the javascript "galleryView.render()" shrinks it, but that's beyond my programing...

Thanks

Syv

pgman

Yes, I have already implemented about a third of them.

Thanks

Syv

phaserbeam

pgman wrote: »

With SM1, I used the image montage of: http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=235991 with a height of 350px. That's what I woukld like to come close to. I don't have to be exact, but something large. If doesn't have have to be a full image in each thumbnail, people will see the full image when clicking on it.

The frustrating part is that it's there, they already come at the right size, then something in the javascript "galleryView.render()" shrinks it, but that's beyond my programing...

OK, that seem to be similar to collage landscape... but as mentioned you cannot change the image size.

You also can not use any javascript anymore since SM2.0, so you also cannot use those hacks from the link above.

I think there was a feature request for select thumb size in collage galleries but i don't have a link handy right now...