Resize photos

[billwill]

Hello -

Will PhotoPlog resize user uploads? Run it through a class that will for example resize a 1024x768 photo to the size selected in the PP control panel?

bw

[Morgan]

You can set the Large Thumb Size, Medium Thumb Size, and Small Thumb Size in the PhotoPlog Settings (http://www.photoplog.com/screens/index.php?do=2). You can also set the Maximum File Size via the Usergroup Manager (http://www.photoplog.com/screens/index.php?do=7). PhotoPlog saves the original file as well as its three thumbs. If you want to rebuild thumbs, that can be done with PhotoPlog Maintenance (http://www.photoplog.com/screens/index.php?do=13).

[billwill]

Hi Morgan -

That's not exactly what I mean.

I mean instead of PhotoPlog complaining about the size of the image e.g.

"Sorry, Forum Admin: Bad File - File is too Large"

It would just use one of the classes that automatically resizes the image to an acceptable size. This would make things so much simpler for users.

bw

[Morgan]

The 'File is too Large' message is based on file size in bytes, not file width/height dimensions. This is the 'Maximum File Size' setting found via the Usergroup Manager, where you can set it to empty or 0 to allow 'unlimited' size, constrained by what your server will allow.

There are no plans to add a function to reduce the byte size of an uploaded file. Sorry. :(

[billwill]

Hello again. Thanks for the quick answers.

When it resizes the height and width dimensions, how does it do this?

1. Does it edit the actual file to change the dimensions?
2. Does it change the dpi?

or -

Does it leave the file alone and merely change the size that is shown?


Thanks again. Regardless of your answers, this is a nice script you've created.

[Morgan]

PhotoPlog uploads the original file, and from that it creates a large, medium, and small thumbnail. Only minithumbs are shrunk via CSS in templates to change the size shown on screen.

[billwill]

thanks morgan

[hiya123]

Morgan, is there anyway to auto resize the picture so that when I click it and it loads the original picture it is a certain size?

[Morgan]

No, PhotoPlog uploads the original file, and from that it creates a large, medium, and small thumbnail.

[Amphicar770]

I would add my own vote for an automatic resizing function. I just installed Pro and ran into the "sorry, file too large" message immediately. I do not want my users storing 8mp photos but if they have to go to another program to resize they simply will not post. Great product otherwise.

Thanks.

[nahual]

Although this product is great and I'm very happy with its current features I think ''resize original'' would be a very nice adition!!

[cellarius]

For me this is the only show-stopper: That's why I won't change over to photoplog.

See: For many of my members it is the first time they ever register at a forum, and most of them don't know anything about resizing images. Many of my members are at age 50++, and I have to provide detailed step-by-step-manuals for even quite basic and straightforward functions. Although they love the fact that there is a gallery, it has to be kept simple. As one of my predecessors here put it, if they have to resize their images themselves, they will not upload. And storing x-MB-photos coming from 12M-Pixel cameras on my Server obviously won't do.

Since I'm not happy with the product I use at the moment and came to know your good work over at vbgeek I'd rather try to change over today than tomorrow. But as long as there is no option to set a maximum size (read: max dimensions!), I simply cannot.

By the way: I can see why you keep the support forums private. I don't see why you would do that for the unsupported mods forum. Why should potential customers not see what is possible by implementing user mods? I keep wondering whether there might be a mod that just does what I want - but this way, I'll never know - and never buy.

Just my 2 cents.
Greets,
cellarius

[nahual]

Hi Morgan, first of all I''m very happy whit the gallery.
Any plan to implement that ''resize orginal'' feature?? Many of my users are teenagers that generally uploads a lot of low quality-big file size photos and that function would be very very nice. Thanks!!

[Morgan]

Yes, some sort of resize original option will be in a future pro version.

[nahual]

Perfect! thanks for your reply!

[nahual]

Hi Morgan, any chance of a new version soon?? Thanks!

[Morgan]

No date is set but you might be interested in this (http://www.photoplog.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2664).

[cellarius]

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And as I said a ew posts before:

"By the way: I can see why you keep the support forums private. I don't see why you would do that for the unsupported mods forum. Why should potential customers not see what is possible by implementing user mods? I keep wondering whether there might be a mod that just does what I want - but this way, I'll never know - and never buy."

Perhaps someone might be so kind as to tell me what secret can be found there. Yes, I'm still monitoring photoplog and it's development. But I find it more and more frustrating, for the reasons given above. :mad:

[Morgan]

The pro forums are accessible to those with an active pro subscription. This provides a way to offer pro support, helps stop unauthorized redistribution, prevents lite users from trying to add changes only meant for the pro version, and besides, what you would be purchasing (if you purchase) is a pro license, not anything from the hacks and modifications forum nor code posted in the other pro forums. If you have a question about whether a particular pro feature or modification exists, that is a good question for the pre-sales forum here (http://www.photoplog.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=10).

[cellarius]

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how that would be related escapes me. Simply don't answer questions form people without a licence. Or: Don't let people without licence post in these forums. I still cannot see why reading would be a problem.
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Not really.
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Don't take your users for too stupid. In my case, it prevents me from buying.
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And just don't take me to be stupid. I do know what I would buy. I just would like to know beforehand what problems exist and what is possible to do. I just don't understand the need for this secrecy. Your support is good, I know this from over at vbgeek. There's nothing to hide there, I'm sure.

I just believe in informed decisions. And for me this would include reading in the forums you keep closed. That's where I see what might be possible and what not, and that's where I catch some ideas.

As for asking in this pre-sale forum: that's just where we are. Someone asked about the Resize feature right here. What help is it asking here, when your answer is a link to a thread one cannot read?
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But I see that our philosophies don't match here. I would not have bothered to answer anymore were it not for your product that I find highly attractive and would gladly buy if it was to meet my needs.

[Morgan]

I'm sorry that you disagree with the closed nature of the pro forums, but there are no plans to change this at this time.

[stashman]

I would like to see this:

Add an option to allow automatic cropping of images instead of resizing.

Because the gallery looks VERY ragged because of all the different sized thumbnails.
Cropping would make the gallery look nicer. The crop could start from the center of the image. Actually, you could combine the crop and the resizing, so that as much of the image is showing in the cropped thumbnail as possible.

Can't be too hard to add a crop. Pixelpost crops the images, for example.

[nahual]

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There´s no need to crop images, you can always chage the built in settings to homogenize thumbs. take a look (http://www.fororeptiles.org/galerias/index.php) ...

[stashman]

What built-in settings do you mean?
The images are resized according to their longest side.
So the gallery will look ragged, because it contains both landscape and portrait pictures.