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On the home page of my site http://davidmward.photography/ I would like the vertical images taller than the height of the horizontal images. How do I accomplish that when setting up the gallery?
I tried changing some dimensions but all it seemed to do was make the horizontal images bigger.
Thanks,
David
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try setting the Galleria aspect ratio at 1:1 and then controlling the image size in Output Settings, setting the width and height at the same size.
Rod
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OK,
Thanks Rob.
When I put the Galleria aspect ratio to 1:1 it cropped the horizontal images to squares. I did not do anything to output settings so I'll give that a try.
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be sure to mess with the Galleria imageCrop settings
http://ce4.theturninggate.net/docs/doku … ia#options
Rod
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Thanks Rob.
Your suggestions got me where I wanted to go.
David
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Rob,
While this is working the problem is that the horizontal images are sinking to the middle of the frame and thus are low on the page.
I have not been able to find a way to keep everything at the top of the frame.
Suggestions.
David
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looks like the aspect ratio is set at 1:1 auto. which I think means that the Galleria stage will take up the entire width of the page, some (1383px on my monitor with the browser sized to fill the monitor). And the 1:1 ratio means that 1383px will also be its height. Your images are 900px, leaving a lot of extra space. above and below. And the larger the monitor and browser size, the greater the extra space around the images.
You could try a fixed aspect ratio of 900/900 for Galleria.
You could try a fixed core width for the grid.
You could also try restraining the entire page width in Site Info > Page Container : Width. Change that from Auto to a fixed width.
rod
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Thanks Rob.
The problem, for me, is that when selecting a square aspect ratio, and then having a horizontal oriented image is that the image is centered in the vertical space. That leads to the horizontal images sinking down on the page. What I am hoping for is that the vertical images stay at the top of the container, that square images fill the container and that vertical images are centered right to left in the container. That will result, in my view, in a properly displayed gallery on the page.
That will also permit selecting a container size that will fit various sized monitors.
I'll try your suggestions. I've done a lot of playing around with parameters trying to find something that works which has resulted in my thinking that the root of the problem for me is the horizontal images sinking. That seems to occur regardless of the container size.
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Rob,
I uploaded a new version with the changes to 900 pix that you suggested but left the page container set to auto.
One thing I noticed, which may be the reason for the sinking, is that the copyright and return to top of page lines are way below the viewable area on the screen. Where is the page depth set? Changing that may correct the situation.
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with the square aspect ratio, that can't be helped. Verticals will be centered horizontally and horizontals will be centered vertically. This is the trade-off for having all images the same size.
By adjusting the space to fit the images (900 px images in a 900px X 900px space) at least you will minimize the empty space above the horizontals.
If you use a non-square aspect ratio, like a 3:2 (3 being the width), the horizontals will fill the space (assuming all horizontals are 3:2 and you've sized them appropriately) but then the verticals will appear smaller than the horizontals.
in my thinking that the root of the problem for me is the horizontal images sinking.
That's just the centering. I don't think there's any help for that.
You could also try creating a slide show of all horizontals or all verticals.
Rod
Rod
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You could also try creating a slide show of all horizontals or all verticals.
Rod
That's the frustration.
Its limiting to have to select images for a gallery based on aspect ratio and/or orientation just to get them in the proper place on the screen.
Thanks for the help. Great plugins, but the limitations are frustrating.
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The limitation is probably going to be there no matter what you use. I've not encountered any slideshow, be it for the web or for computer screen or projector, that will push the horizontals to the top of the presentation area rather than centering them.
That's not to say they aren't out there.
Rod
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Rob,
Thanks for your help.
I went back to the pages layout and refined it a bit.
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