Automatic Product Image Resize

[IOAF]

Hi, im very new to this program and althogh have experiance with css html etc im rather baffled at some of the features.

I really need to no how to auto resize the default product image, the pics i am using are huge (over 2000px long) and i need to resize them to make the layout look decent. The only thing i have come across is the search results property to constrain them to what aver height or width you set but other than that i am lost.

Ive looked all over the forum and cant find the answer. If im missing any relevent info please let me no, i need to get this ASAP

So my question is, how do i set an automatic image resize on a product image? to make the image smaller?

Thanks for your time!

[NormanRouxel]

how do i set an automatic image resize on a product image? to make the image smaller?

Basically, you shouldn't have images any larger than you intend to display them. Your 2000 px wide images will have such big file sizes they will slow your page load times down enormously. Also if you let the browser resize big images it will do so in a very rough way.

The best route is to resize all your product images before Actinic uploads them. There are free tools that will do this (see below). Make sure you keep a copy of your original images in case things go wrong.

There are many posts on automatically resizing all product images to make smaller files. Searching for "Irfanview" should take you to several.

[IOAF]

Ok, ive got the program, Thanks for the info.

I would have thought actinic would have used php to create a thumbnail from the main product image which you could then click and view full sized.

Anyway thanks for the help. This program will sure save a lot of time

[jont]

Always best to resize in a dedicated image program to retain quality and maximise file compression - a slower process for sure but as images are arguably the single most important element to a web page it makes sense to take the time and get them looking so as you want