Need help improving attribute images

Instead of letting product cart generate different size images from your main image, you could just create each size yourself using photoshop or paintshop pro or any other image editing software then uploading it onto the site. With photoshop you can choose to save images for web. If the site doesn't allow you to upload your own images, you can always upload them via FTP into your site and simply name them the exact name ProductCart uses, to replace the images they create with your own. Hope that helps and I hope that makes sense.


P.S. EI, Please correct me if I am ever wrong. Just trying to help. :)

Not sure...which version of PC do you have? I have the standard version 3.04 with no add-ons. I think you might have the apparel add-on. If you don't see a place to specify the images from the admin section, then you'll have to upload it directly into PC through FTP, using the same name PC uses for those images.
The best way to locate those images in their folders would be to right click the image from your store front and select the properties from the drop down. It'll then give you the "location" of the image. Then follow the folders using your ftp program until you locate all of those images. I'd make a copy of that folder in case something happens, you can always re-upload the old folder. You'll have to use the same extension PC uses (e.g. jpg or gif) for those images, otherwise they won't be linked properly. Another thing that would be good is to note the size of the image and the file size of the image to make sure your images are the same size and file size, so that PC can display them as easily as they display the current images you have.

Hope that helps some. I know I've changed a lot of "stock" images this way. It's just a matter of locating them in your PC folders.

thx, i'll try that when I have some more time.

cy

I'm not sure how the size of the thumbnails is created for the additional product images but you can still FTP or upload your regular images without using the resizing feature and then select those general and detail images when adding additional images. The thumbnails, although shrunk, should stay proportional and as long as all the images for a specific product are the same size, it should look ok below the main image.

Do you have a URL we can view for the product(s) you're having trouble with?

that tells me how the thumbnail is created and how to set its size. i assume its doing that from the general image.

what i would prefer is to create my own 50px thumbnail and use it instead of a poorly resized image.

is that possible ... I've used javascript image rollovers on other carts and can do it.

cy