https://forum.productcart.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:04:02 +0000 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 08:07:36 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 https://forum.productcart.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=4863 https://forum.productcart.com/forum_images/pc_logo_50.png https://forum.productcart.com/ https://forum.productcart.com/photo-product-page-questions_topic4863_post18688.html#18688 Author: Hamish
Subject: 4863
Posted: 20-November-2011 at 8:07am

Hi,
  Many sites upload images via FTP. Personally I like using IrfanView for batch processing images and then uploading them via FTP. The quality setting is a percentage so yes, 100 would be the maximum.

ProductCart can utilize several image processing components - it depends which one(s) are installed on the server. Your hosting company will be able to tell you what is installed.
The quality problems you are seeing is probably because photoshop is heavily compressing them and then the upload and resize compresses the images again (to 85% quality). Multiple compressions are not a good idea, so I would either, if the images are very large, resize them but at 100% in Photoshop, or just upload them. That will leave the server component to do the optimisation if you use the upload/resize or the WMS add-on.

If you use FTP instead then no server side image manipulation will occur.   
]]> Sun, 20 Nov 2011 08:07:36 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/photo-product-page-questions_topic4863_post18688.html#18688 https://forum.productcart.com/photo-product-page-questions_topic4863_post18686.html#18686 Author: 123456789
Subject: 4863
Posted: 19-November-2011 at 11:06pm

Thanks Hamish, I didn't realize that there was any other way to get images on my site besides using the upload/resize option!?  (well, at least before I added the WMS add-on)

Thanks for answering this part of my question. I am saving my images in Photoshop at 480 X 640 - "save for web" optimized. When I use the "upload and resize" function, I set my thumbnail to be 200, and the general and detail images to both be 480 (based on width, not height, and I do use the "sharpen image" option because if I don't it's a real mess of blur)
If you're wondering why I set both my general and detail images to be the same size, it's because when I used to save my images at 960 width and then try to have my detail setting at 960, it would never actually display at the size I had entered (960) anyway, so I figured why bother. 

Thanks for telling me where to find the quality setting. What is the MAX I can set it to? You mentioned that it should be at 85 right now? Does it only go up to 100? That's what I am guessing.

You mentioned this "If you do then it depends which software component on theserver is being invoked as to exactly how the image is processed."
But I can't figure out what you mean by this...sorry, can you clarify or elaborate? Thanks!


]]> Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:06:10 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/photo-product-page-questions_topic4863_post18686.html#18686 https://forum.productcart.com/photo-product-page-questions_topic4863_post18685.html#18685 Author: Hamish
Subject: 4863
Posted: 19-November-2011 at 6:40pm

Hi,  
  ProductCart does not manipulate images in any way, unless you use the upload and resize option. If you do then it depends which software component on theserver is being invoked as to exactly how the image is processed. For the quality setting look in uploadresize\productResizeb.asp for lines containing "85" and the word quality  -there are several.
  
If you are using the upload and resize and the image you are starting with is smaller than the target image sizes, or significantly different in ratio of height to length that would be the most likely cause.The only reason images can end up looking different is if they are processed in some way or being displayed with different dimensions.  
]]> Sat, 19 Nov 2011 18:40:56 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/photo-product-page-questions_topic4863_post18685.html#18685 https://forum.productcart.com/photo-product-page-questions_topic4863_post18683.html#18683 Author: 123456789
Subject: 4863
Posted: 18-November-2011 at 11:56pm

I need to make some changes to the layout of my product pages and the things I want to do cannot be done in the dashboard.

I use the "left" orientation for my product pages, and this setting puts all of my photos underneath the main image. I would like to keep the left orientation, but have all additional images immediately to the right of the main image.
Right now, the additional images that are below the main image are spaced pretty far apart if I just add one extra image and the more I add, the closer they come together.

But say I just want to have one or two additional photos and would like them placed pretty tightly together -- how would I go about doing this?

Here's a perfect example of how I want the images in my product pages to display. How can I achieve this look?

- Also, I remember changing the setting on my photos to "no borders" somewhere, but my photos all still display with black borders. Why would this happen, and how can I change it so that I really have no borders?

- And finally, Where is the compression setting located within product cart? My images are badly compressed and look blurry on my website even though they are great quality. How can I  change this?

I installed the "bulk uploader" from WMS but have not used it to upload anything yet. They have a compression setting, which I have set to 100 (meaning best photo quality) but this setting seems to make no difference - is this because I am not using the bulk uploader for my photos?

Can someone please tell me how to change the compression setting within product cart?

Thanks!!






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