hello everybody,

I bought the Pro version of Simple Image Gallery and the thumbnails created are cropped in my website. I don't know how to overcome this problem as I thought that this software was good enough to create good thumbnails.
Please, could you help me? I clean the cache folder and it is the same.... the problem continues..

My galleries are in these links:

elegardesign.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&layout=category&task=category&id=5&Itemid=55 [nofollow]
elegardesign.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&layout=category&task=category&id=2&Itemid=53 [nofollow]
elegardesign.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&layout=category&task=category&id=4&Itemid=54 [nofollow]

Thank you very much in advance,

Elena

Resizing depends on the original dimensions of the image. The images you use has big height so according to the dimensions you gave to thumbnails this is the best you can have.

The closer the thumbnails shape to the original images shape the better result you have.

>"The closer the thumbnails shape to the original images shape the better result you have."

What if some pictures are in a horizontal format while other are in a vertical ones?? An image gallery should be able to display both in a proper way.

Elena:

You should take a look at this :
It´s part of the Sig Pro Documentation, www.joomlaworks.net/content/view/51/41/

With these parameters you can override the values in the configuration of Sig Pro
Hope it works for you

J
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Custom galleries
"Simple Image Gallery PRO" provides the user the ability to have customized image galleries. For this to happen, we have included 6 additional "switches", which you can use to set different width, height, display mode, caption mode, popup engine and gallery layouut per gallery! That means you can bypass the global settings "Thumbnail viewport width", "Thumbnail viewport height", "Display Mode", "Default caption (label) handling", "Popup engine for image galleries" and "Layout template for image galleries", and have for example image galleries that display thumbnails in different dimensions within the same article.

To do that you need to insert up to 6 (optional) values in the tags used by the plugin. The syntax is the following:

{gallery}folder_path:thumbs_width:thumbs_height:display_mode:caption_mode:popup_engine:gallery_layout{/gallery}

Watch out for the seperator, which is the character ":".

    "thumbs_width" is the target width in pixels for all thumbnails.
    "thumbs_height" is the target height in pixels for all thumbnails.
    "display_mode" is the mode in which we want our gallery to display. It takes only 2 values, either "0" or "1". "0" means "normal mode" and "1" means "single thumbnail mode".
    "caption_mode" control how captions (labels) are displayed. It takes only 3 values, either "0" (no captions), "1" (caption with generic messages) or "2" (captions coming from labels.txt files).
    "popup_engine" overrides the default popup engine (see our demo site). Values are: jquery_slimbox, jquery_prettyphoto, jquery_colorbox, jquery_fancybox, highslide, lytebox, greybox, mootools_slimbox, simplebox.
    "gallery_layout" overrides the default gallery layout. Values are: Artistic, Classic, Elegant, Galleria, Polaroids, Sleek

The most important ones of course are the first 2 params (after the folder path): width & height

So if for example you want to insert an image gallery in some article with thumbnails displaying in 300px width and 160px height, while keeping the "normal" display mode (showing all thumbs, not just the first one), with caption showing generic messages, you would insert the following tag:

{gallery}folder/some_folder:300:160:0:1{/gallery}

The problem is that it creates a thumbnail by cropping into the image instead of resizing it. Example: I would like to have all the thumbnails resized to 100 pixels for the width instead of 100 pixels cropped. The result would be a thumbnail that shows a miniature of the ENTIRE image and not just part of it. At 100 pixels for the width only, all the thumbnails lool like vertical images.

@fnphoto,
if an image is 400x100px  cannot give a thumbnail in 20x20px without being "cut" at all, otherwise the image will be distorted.