automatic thumbnail creator

[tommygunner]

What is the best way of getting product image thumbnails more accurate. Mine are always sort of blocky.

[jpf]

Short answer - Make them MAUALLY.

Thumbnails generally are not to be very "high" quality thus should be faster for people with slower connection speeds and faster viewing (in general) with pages that have alot of thumbnails.

[adam71o]

I have no problem with making them manually, but how do I tell oscmax to use the "product_small_image" or whatever, instead of shrinking down the full-size image?

[2hms]

I am also having the same issue, can someone please reply to this string so we can get back to work?

actually, is there a way to use 2 images, a large and small?


Danka,

[bdneuman]

Originally Posted by 2hms

I am also having the same issue, can someone please reply to this string so we can get back to work?

actually, is there a way to use 2 images, a large and small?


Danka,

There a couple of contribs for this. I use Ultrapics. It allows you to select 3 different images when adding a product - a thumbnail for product listing pages, a medium size for the product_info page, and a large image for the popups. I use images of widths 100, 200, and 600 respectively. I installed this when I had about 90 products already loaded so it took some doing to create the 3 images per product manually. I used Paintshop Pro which has a script that you can run on several images at once - this sped things up. I used a naming convention like this: image_100.jpg, image_200.jpg, and image.jpg. Then I used easypopulate (had to tweak this contrib to upload the additional images - I think there were instructions for this in the Ultrapics contrib) to upload the 3 images per product - worked great. You can use Excel to copy/paste and replace parts of the URL to your image files in order to populate the columns for the extra images and then upload to your shop.

Let me know if anyone is interested in this and has any questions...