Changing Cropping For Individual Thumbnails Within A Gallery

[TaubertArts]

I have an idea, and I'm hopeful that it's possible to implement. I'm not a coder, so please excuse me if I'm suggesting something that violates the laws of physics.

I like that you can set the cropping for thumbnails differently for each gallery by using multiple ki_setup.php files. I'm doing that now and it's working as expected.

I've found that one cropping setting does not fit all thumbnails in a gallery. One thumbnail might look better with the setting $th_2sq_crop_hori = "right"; while another thumbnail might look better with $th_2sq_crop_vert = "top";

In the case of our photo gallery, please have a look here:
http://www.taubertarts.com/gallery/rural_landscapes.php

The cropping is set $th_2sq_crop_hori = "right"; for this gallery and the thumbnail with the plane looks perfect. However, the cropping is wrong for the thumbnail of the Georgetown Museum. If I could set the cropping individually, I could make the best choice for each thumbnail.

My suggestion is to have a way to override the default cropping settings for each image by adding lines to the ki_setup.php file for that directory.

For example, perhaps you could add an array where a user could specify the file names and different cropping settings for each of a group of images within a directory.

Would others find this to be a useful feature?

Can somebody get this idea to work?

[kkokus]

(08-30-2009 09:32 PM)TaubertArts Wrote:  Can somebody get this idea to work?

In my oppinion it makes no sense to add this to the "ki_setup.php" files. It would be very inconvenient to add extra lines for every single picture you want to have an individual cropping.

I'm thinking about another way that may workout better. For example if you login as admin to make picture comments, you could see a small thumbnail of your full picture in the top right corner. The parts that wouldn't fit in the square would then be greyed out. So it's like a small box you would be able to move with your mouse to select the part of the image that would be displayed as the picture thumbnail. This way you could even select parts of the image that are between "left" and "center" and further on ...

[TaubertArts]

Quote:In my oppinion it makes no sense to add this to the "ki_setup.php" files. It would be very inconvenient to add extra lines for every single picture you want to have an individual cropping.

You are very right. It would be inconvenient to add extra lines for every single picture.

Quote:I'm thinking about another way that may workout better. For example if you login as admin to make picture comments, you could see a small thumbnail of your full picture in the top right corner. The parts that wouldn't fit in the square would then be greyed out. So it's like a small box you would be able to move with your mouse to select the part of the image that would be displayed as the picture thumbnail. This way you could even select parts of the image that are between "left" and "center" and further on ...

That would be perfect! Do you think that feature will be available in the near future?

Thanks for all your hard work.

[kkokus]

(08-31-2009 05:51 PM)TaubertArts Wrote:  That would be perfect! Do you think that feature will be available in the near future?

I will definitely work on this, but I can't promise that for the near future. But who knows - maybe you will see this earlier than expected. Stay tuned ...

[TaubertArts]

(08-31-2009 10:02 PM)kkokus Wrote:  I will definitely work on this, but I can't promise that for the near future. But who knows - maybe you will see this earlier than expected. Stay tuned ...

I just installed the new v2.2beta1, and I see you've incorporated this change.

Thank you very much! It does exactly what we needed.

Your gallery script continues to get better and better.

[kkokus]

(11-04-2009 07:47 AM)TaubertArts Wrote:  I just installed the new v2.2beta1, and I see you've incorporated this change.

You don't need to install the beta-version, because v2.2 has already been released as stable.