Newbie! - homepage help

stevea4189

Hello to everyone

New to this forum and Smugmug so apologies if the answer to my question is already in the forums or plainly obvious and I am just being stupid!

I started to create a smugmug site last night - only completed the very basics and chucked a few images into a gallery to try it out, but on the slideshow that is to display on the homepage, it is cropping the images to the point heads are being cut off etc.

My question is, is there a specific dimension/aspect ratio/file size that I need to save the images to, for them to display correctly on the slideshow/homepage?

The site is at: www.steveallen.photography

thanks in advance for any help - sure it will be the first of many questions!

rainforest1155

Hi Steve,

There's nothing wrong with your site or the format of your photos. By design, the background tab > slideshow fills the browser window with your photos. To be able to do that without any borders, depending on the browser window and the format of the specific photo, parts of the photo are cropped out. That's the way the full screen background slideshow works.
If you'd rather not have any parts of your photos cropped out, you could disable the background tab slideshow and instead add a slideshow content block to your homepage. While this won't be full screen, it would not crop out any part of a photo. For details on the slideshow content block, take a look here. You can find the slideshow content block in the customize site > content tab > photos section.

For an overview on using the customize site screen, I'd recommend this page.

ChancyRat

I don't know if there is CSS code that could do what you want, but this link might be of interest, it's kind of related: http://www.sherlockphotography.org/Customisations/Avoid-cutting-off-heads

stevea4189

thanks both for your help