Poor Image Quality

[los_design]

omg, I just got back in and thought I'd catch up!
What *ARE* you lot on today?!

don't you mean who....

phnar phnar

[TraceyHand]

Tracey - don't label me with these hooligans

nice try! Everything (and everyone) has gone downhill since that post!

[Darren B]

nice try! Everything (and everyone) has gone downhill since that post!

I did try and keep it on track, poor Nicola will probably never come back, Chris will probably ban us all for scaring the new customers away - remember if you cant be friendly dont post

[TraceyHand]

wasn't me! I wasn't here

[los_design]

wasn't me! I wasn't here

We know, George told us

[Darren B]

wasn't me! I wasn't here

You wnet to nudge G from what i heard

[Nicola]

Sorry been away for a few days, I'm just going to try and digest what you lot have said around the waffle and get back ASAP. You either don't have much to do in the day or don't sleep much at night.!!!

[Darren B]

Sorry been away for a few days, I'm just going to try and digest what you lot have said around the waffle and get back ASAP. You either don't have much to do in the day or don't sleep much at night.!!!

Ah so they did not frighten you off then, i can tell you theres been a few worried people around here

Im sure from the thick of it you can see there is more ways to skin a cat, Gabs will always come up with some amazing code for doing it for you, Lee if he controls hormone levels can be quiet good and has a diferent spin on things (ssssh dont tell him i told you he's go a baby on the way) Jont, "Just call Me Jont" the MI5 agent , Tracy on a mission to learn everything there is to know about actinic.

Talk to you soon
D

[Nicola]

Sorry think I've made a mistake - thought this was an actinic forum rather than dating direct!!!

Back to a serious note -

All our images are 500 x 500 and are loaded through sage. We used to convert all the products in photoshop down to 150 x 150 and automatically loaded into actinic. When we had our new website designed it was changed and now actinic resizes the images, but as you can see the quality is poor.

Gabriele said about resizing images at server level, but this is a bit beyond me I'll need it explaining a bit more.
Any more help would really be appreciated!!

[Nicola]

How are you defining your product images Nicola? Not the extended ones, the product ones.

How do you mean?

[leehack]

How are you giving each product an image to use on your site? 99% of us, size an image to the size we want, save it in our site1 folder and then point to this image in the Image field within a product.

[pinbrook]

Back to a serious note -

Norman has a neat plugin for resizing, you can see this in action

lessbounce.com/acatalog/Exoflex.html

the large image is fed to actinic, the small image is autoresized.

you would have to contact drillpine.biz to get the plugin

[Nicola]

How are you giving each product an image to use on your site? 99% of us, size an image to the size we want, save it in our site1 folder and then point to this image in the Image field within a product.



Got you. We upload through Sage Accounts in the product section. All our images are in a bitmap folder and then copied into our porreda or site1 folder within Actinic. I then upload from sage using the actinic link and put the products into the correct catagories. I also add the extended image in extended information within actinic.

[Nicola]

Norman has a neat plugin for resizing, you can see this in action

lessbounce.com/acatalog/Exoflex.html

the large image is fed to actinic, the small image is autoresized.

you would have to contact drillpine.biz to get the plugin

Thanks will have a look at their site

[leehack]

Got you. We upload through Sage Accounts in the product section. All our images are in a bitmap folder and then copied into our porreda or site1 folder within Actinic. I then upload from sage using the actinic link and put the products into the correct catagories. I also add the extended image in extended information within actinic.

Are you uploading bitmaps?
My God, that sounds like the most complicated image referencing system i've ever heard. KISS.