Stuff that - it takes far too long. I have many products and each one has 4 extra shots.

Scott,
220pxls images on products, blown up to 550pxls. on the light box?
I don't know if the blown up image would lose definition.
I have asked this question before about images.
I have gone the other way, with a large image scale down and both product and light box look fine.

Cheers,
Baz.

How does the program work on ratio?
Does it scale everything down, or up to a 220 x 220 pixel. image regardless of the original image size, or a ratio of original image.
Clearly a 400 x 200 pixel image would be distorted if converted to 220 x 220

Baz.

The application uses two different images:

One for the thumbnail and other for the image display in the colorbox. The size for the thumbnail is scaled based on the information of the SCD ( usually are 220px*220px ) .

Colorbox is set to a maximum of 640px*480px. This means that if the image is bigger than 640*480 the software will rescaled to that size, otherwise will maintain the original size (the image will be the original).

But in any case the image will maintain the aspect ratio, if it is blurred is because when doing the resizing it will always loose a little bit of quality.

Green, if you do this right it will take you just a few minutes to do all the pictures rather than one at a time. Here's what my brain says would be the easiest way to do this:

• 1. First let the SCC do the images for you. Basically add all or a bunch of your products to the program, do your update and upload same as you normally would.
• 2. Now export your site to your computer somewhere so you can get to the graphics that the program has created for you (in other words, all are now numbered to correspond with the exact products you have them linked to etc.)
• 3. Fire up Easy Thumbnail (I'll find a link for it if you haven't found it already) and have it add all the largest pictures that SCC created for the program. These pictures have lost very little to no quality in SCC's creation of them that I've seen so far so they should work well. I'll take a guess at the structure here for you:
• imageMain = The largest photo that SCC makes, this would be the one to use for your main resizing.
• full = I'm guessing this is the graphic it's creating for the sub pictures that go in the Product Details section. Basically the pictures that show up under the one in the large box of that page where you can choose up to 4 alternate pictures to show.
• small = I'm guessing here again, but I believe this is the "initial" resize that the program does while retaining the same extension (jpg, gif, png) - don't use this one.
• smallMain = I believe this is the one that SCC has taken the "small" and converted it to this one so that all the extensions are "jpg" which is the extension that SCC needs them to be in. This would be the one you want to replace.
• Once you have the graphics deciphered on which ones are which, just tell EZ Thumbnail where they all are, you can select them all and add it to the program to have it convert all the "imageMain" photo to exactly the same size as the current "smallMain" photos in your folder. Mine are all 212 x 212, I don't see any 100 x 100 that Scott mentioned for the thumbnails so I'm sure it's the smallMain size it's using so whatever that size is on your "smallMain" photoes, set EZ Thumbnails to convert to that size.
• Once you have that setup check to see if it allows you to do namechanges right away too ( I have got to reinstall the program yet so I can't check this setup at the moment) and if it will allow you to crop part of a name and change it then change the "image" to "small" and that should be all you need to do.
• Click the button so it converts them and you should now have a completely redone set of thumbnails.

I would suggest you copy the images folder and use a copy in a different directory just so you can always go back to the others and redo it if it doesn't work quite right the first time, but even if it takes a half hour, that should be for ALL not for 1

Hope that helps and GL on it, let me know how it goes.

*Points to self* I didn't break the forums this time!!! LOL

Me thinks it's either Scott or working too hard

Firstly *holds hand up* I broke the thread.

Thanks for everyones help. My work around is to resize my images to 480 x 480 (I have a marcro utlity for this) before I import them in to CC SC.
Here is one I made earlier
http://corrinasmith.com/shop/viewitem.p … ductid=184
I'm much happier with these images although the THUMBNAILS COULD BE BIGGER

Cheers
Corrina

Would somebody at CC be able to remove - or at least stop further - 'all-bold' and 'all-underline' in this thread? It is very distracting and makes it painful to read.

Ok, this image thing is driving me crazy. I'm a photoshop guy, so I feel I have a pretty strong grasp of the basic issues regarding image and resolution etc.

I see how cc sc reduces my originals to 212 x 212, no problem understanding that.

What I do not "get" is why when you click an image from the product detail page it opens in a nice image browser, but it remains just 212 x 212 even though there a ton of room for a larger image. What is the point of switching to an image browser if all you are going to see is the same image size that is shown on the product detail?

I suspect I am missing some key piece of information. Can anyone explain it to me?