Problem with album thumbnails

[matiseijas]

Hello, could you please help me??
I recentlly setup my gallery at www.britneyvip.com/index.php ,
the thing is that if i try to set the thumbnail size a bigger number than 100 (it's 160 currentlly) my thumbanils look strange. Like pixelated.

Oh, and one other thing... how can i change the thumbnail size of the other thumbnails, 'cause when i modify the thumbnail size option in the config, the only thumbnails that are enlarged/reduced are the album thumbnail ones.

Thanks

[Joachim Müller]

did you read the footnote on the config page saying not to change settings marked with an asterisk (*) once there are pics in the database? Well, the thumbnails look strange because the actual thumbnail files stay the same size they were created in, but inside your page, they are stretched (using the width and height parameters of the <img>-tag) to the new size you set for thumbs.
To fix your issue, use the resize tool from the admin menu to re-create the thumbnail files with the size you currently set in coppermine config.

This has been asked and answered quite often, please search the board before posting next time.

GauGau

[Casper]

please read this thread, http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php?topic=4175

a tip for when searching, use strings of words you want included in the search like this 'thumbnail AND size AND setting', which will greatly narrow the search results.

[matiseijas]

did you read the footnote on the config page saying not to change settings marked with an asterisk (*) once there are pics in the database? Well, the thumbnails look strange because the actual thumbnail files stay the same size they were created in, but inside your page, they are stretched (using the width and height parameters of the <img>-tag) to the new size you set for thumbs.
To fix your issue, use the resize tool from the admin menu to re-create the thumbnail files with the size you currently set in coppermine config.

This has been asked and answered quite often, please search the board before posting next time.

GauGau

I'm aware of that... i already used the resize tool, i even uploaded new pics to see if the new ones weren't pixelated, but they are!!
What can i do about it?

[Casper]

Did you read the thread I suggested.  It explains about the 2 thumbnail settings in config, and which one does what.

but to re-iterate, the setting 'Size of thumbnails in pixels' in the 'Album list view' of config, only sets what size to display the thumbnail.  If the thumb is a different size, it will squeeze or stretch the thumb to fit, often causing them to look bad.

the setting 'Max dimension of a thumbnail' in the 'Files and thumbnails settings' of config is the one coppermine uses to build the thumbs, when first uploading or resizing.

So if you want 160 pix thumbs on the front page, but this setting is only 100, the thumbs will look stretched.