Can't crop thumb in Thumbnail style gallery
Richard
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I'm moving away from SmugMug style to Thumbnail for most of my galleries, or at least that was my intent till I saw that cropping the thumbnail had no effect. I don't want to crop the actual images. In my testing, cropping the thumbnail affected neither the display of the image in the thumbnail style gallery nor even the thumb in the organizer. I don't much care what it looks like in the organizer, but I care a lot about how it appears in the gallery. Am I missing something? Very disappointing if not--it makes the Thumbnail style pretty much useless for me.
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Incidentally, are watermarks supposed to be showing up on the Folder preview photos pages, or sub-category / whatever... sub-folder? pages? Mine are, & it's not very attractive. I didn't expect them to be showing anywhere but inside a gallery, or if it's a collage theme, then only in the LightBox View.
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Please don't do that. Keep the tool available but maybe call it something else like "Custom Thumbnail Crop, for SM Style Galleries" or the like. Properly cropped thumbnails add emphasis to a gallery and also invite additional viewer clicks. That should be as important to Smugmug as it is to any gallery owner. The viewer has a richer visual experience as well.
Do what you want for automatic default display of thumbs, but please keep the gallery owner's control over their product if they choose to override a default.
EDIT: Solved for me now.
Thing is, I don't know how to get to the crop thumb tool through new smug. It is accessible in New via Nick's extension, but it is still useful. Question: How does one call up that tool within new smug, once they've abandoned old smug (without the extension)?
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I second the "please don't do that"! I use primarily Smugmug Style Galleries and use Thumbnail Crop all the time...it's part of my process when I upload a new gallery.
I can work around the fact that the feature photos don't honor my square crop by choosing a photo that will work...but I still need a way to make sure the thumbnails in my Smugmug gallery highlight the part of the photo I choose.
Rename it if you need to...but PLEASE don't remove it.
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