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[lorilr Friend lorilrJoin date: November 2008Posts: 19Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 3]

#141969

To some extent I had this problem in another template as well.

In ja-beryl, it looks to me like the pictures in the “billboard” in ja-slideshow are 440 pixels by 268. I opened the .jpg in photoshop and the images are 440×268.

but when I create my own images that same size, they don’t fit into the ja-slideshow billboard.

Here is an example: http://harrisatlanta.com/joomla-beryl. the picture with the title “metabolic boost” is cut off on the right side. There should be an apple in the girls other hand.

Please let me know what size images I should create.

Thanks
Lori

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#308132

Hi, I don’t know what the porblem is, but I don’t know if it is only the size of the pictures. Another picture didn’t fully show either. It is more like it does not fully load or fill the size of the frame. I know this is not really a solution, but maybe a help to start looking somewhere else for solutions. Did you make any other changes that might have affected this? Good luck!

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#308184

Are you familiar with ja-slideshow?

In the module parameters, you put the image path name and the image description. In the template demo (which is the link I provided) two images and descriptions are provided. I added three.

So all I did was create three images that are the same size of the demo images. After doing that I realised that even though the demo images are 440X268, the demo image is larger than the frame. so the frame obscured part of my 440X268 image.

I can’t figure out what size to make the images. Or is there another piece to this that I am missing?

As you point out, another picture is also off-kilter. That would be one of the three I created. Same problem as before.

Any one else?

Thanks
Lori

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#308253

Hi again,

I had a look at it and you will see that the setting for the slideshow are full width 960 and full width is 268. That is the same as the size of the background for the slideshow. The pictures you use are 440 by 268, and actually bigger than the frame and are in reality behind the frame so that you only see part of the picture, even of the original. The picture actually goes all the way to the right margin of the page. If you want to show a smaller picture you would have to change the number 960 to somewhere down to about 840. Any smaller than that and you start to cut off the frame on the picture.

So the size of the picture is not actually the size of the frame but rather the full size of the slideshow and all you see is what is behind the picture frame. So you have to use pictures where what you want to show is in the middle of the picture. So if you have a picture with someone with an apple in one hand and you want that to show, you need to use a larger part of the original picture. when you crop the picture to the size 440×268 you need to have the main part you want to show, apples and all, in the middle and not in the edges of the picture, as they will fall behind the frame.

I hope this is a help.

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#308460

Thanks, I created the images 960 X 268 and placed what I wanted to show in the “billboard window”. It seems a bit odd to me especially as the demo images aren’t 960 X 268. At any rate it works.

There is no mention of this (that I could find) in the ja-beryl documentation nor did any developer step up to give a clue.

Lori

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#308490

Hi Lori, I am glad it works. To be able to work with slightly smaller pictures, you should be able to cut off the left half of the pictures, the part that is to the laft of the “window”. That is why the original pictures are 440×268. You cut off anything to the left, leaning only 440 pixels wide. The pictures should float to the right anyway and still work fine. If you try it, let me know how it works.

Good luck, Lori

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