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In this gallery nothing has been done to maintain image uniformity. Images
are all of different sizes as indicated.
Instantly the image gallery detracts from the overall appearance and
professionalism of the auction.
Due to the disparity of image sizes, the thumbnail images create an unappealing
stair step effect.
What's worse is when the buyer begins to view the auction item by clicking on
the thumbnails. The entire gallery begins to bounce up and down as the
different image sizes are encountered. Image number three can cause the
thumbnails to disappear completely off of the bottom of the gallery causing the
buyer to scroll down to view more images.
Because image four is being rescaled larger than the original, it becomes
distorted.
So how do we fix it?
The key lies in the image sizes...
How Image Sizes affect the
Image Gallery
The Custom Image Gallery is designed to work with all image sizes.
However the size and uniformity of those images directly effect how the
Image Gallery works.
The key word for your auction images is uniformity. On a per auction
basis, all of your images should be the same size.
The height and width should also be proportional to each other. So that
when the image gallery resizes the images, the images maintain the proper
proportions.
Standard image sizes include but are not limited to:
- 1024 x 768
- 800 x 600
- 640 x 480
The
above sizes are proportional so that if for example we take the 1024 x 768 image
and resize the width to either 800 or 640, the height will resize proportionally
to 600 or 480 automatically.
Of course square images of any size are inherently proportional.
Another key point to allow the proper resizing of the images by the Image
Gallery, is that the original must be LARGER than the intended gallery size.
- Scaling an image down in size maintains sharpness and clarity.
- Scaling an image up in size creates distortion.
Let's review the Image Gallery to the right. The Image Gallery defines the
size of the image to be displayed. In InkFrog, the main image at the top
can be from 60 to 600 pixels wide. We specify a size within that range to
both properly showcase the item being sold and to fit within the area defined by
the template. In this example, the main gallery image is 400 pixels wide
and the thumbnails are 100 pixels wide.
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