I am sorry if this has been addressed elsewhere (which I'm sure it has). But please help out a newbie... How can I prevent thumbnails from cutting off the heads of my subjects in portrait frames? Landscape photos look fine, but I don't know how to resize or centre a thumbnail to rather cut off at the bottom of my portraits than at the top. Please visit my website to see what I mean, http://www.hannalee.co.za. I really appreciate your help.

Nice Website!

Firstly you theme has to support it. (more later)

Go to
ZP Admin > Options : Theme Options

Uncheck, Crop thumbnails
Check, Images size is longest size

Then add this at the end of your CSS file (http://www.hannalee.co.za/cms/gallery/themes/default/styles/light.css)

[quote]
.imagethumb {
float:left;
min-height: 200px;
}

/ mac hide */
html .imagethumb {height:200px}
/ end hide /

[/quote]
as explained here
http://www.zenphoto.org/support/topic.php?id=2192#post-13075

good luck!

Thanx Mothaheri. I will give this info through to my web designer! I'm sure he will have more success!

My web designer and myself can't seem to get it right. If we do what you suggested we loose the uniformity of the thumbnails - I like them to all be square in stead of portrait or landscape but I want them to crop the portrait orientated images from the bottom so that the subjects in my thumbnail are rather feetless that headless! What are we overlooking or doing wrong?

you can try to replace the tumbnails you want to change with costum selfmade tumbnails (with for example photoshop). if you give them the same name and size and place them in the cache folder (rewrite the old onces), it should do the trick. havent tried it myself though.

this is probably what you're looking for:

http://www.zenphoto.org/trac/ticket/274

they are already working on it, its planned for 1.3. already looking forward to it :)

I am also looking forward to that feature a lot. When might 1.3 be released?

I tell you a "secret": It will be probably before 1.3 and the beta feature is already in the nightly/svn...:-) (Click on the image on the album edit page).

I bumped into that 2 days ago, it looks pretty good as it is now. I am most likely going to use that for my own webpage as I am a big fan of crop thumbs, but yeah the problem before was the cutting of things not wanted.

This looks good, great work.

Mmmm, secrets! I'd love to use it as soon as there's a stable version with it incorporated! =)

Guys, I just wanted to say thanks for the feature to crop thumbnails in 1.2.2, I'm absolutely in love with it. I'm very impressed with how simple and efficiently it works, and it allows me to customize my thumbnails to my hearts delight. (Especially with my wide-angle thumbnails being such a pain that they were. The difference is amazing.

Anyway, loving it guys, thanks.

want to say thanks for this feature

thanks.

It was a long awaited, much anticipated feature. We were glad to find a support library to help with the cropping. Thanks for the kind words. We really appreciate them.