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Support => Older/other versions => cpg1.2 Standalone Support => Topic started by: neji on April 05, 2004, 06:33:49 PM

Title: how to resize thumbnails
Post by: neji on April 05, 2004, 06:33:49 PM
i cant seem to figure out how to resze the thumbnails and the pics i went to the resize thing in coppermine but it didnt do any thing and i changed some settings to reflect on new pics and it didnt do any thing either
Title: how to resize thumbnails
Post by: Casper on April 05, 2004, 08:47:06 PM
When you change the thub settings in config, it only affects pics added later.
To make the changes apply to existing pics, you need to rebuild the thumbs with the resize utility.
Title: how to resize thumbnails
Post by: jeremed on April 09, 2004, 03:17:28 PM
This only sizes picture DOWN? It will not size up pictures that are already smaller than the limit set in the configuration, right?
Title: how to resize thumbnails
Post by: hyperion on April 09, 2004, 04:28:52 PM
Correct. You cannot increase the original picture size without sacrificing quality.  (This is true of any imaging software, even Photoshop.)
Title: how to resize thumbnails
Post by: jeremed on April 10, 2004, 03:18:33 AM
Thanks for verifying. I have used some programs before that will size all images to the same dimensions regardless of their size. :-/
Title: how to resize thumbnails
Post by: Joachim Müller on April 10, 2004, 09:57:35 AM
as hyperion pointed out: sizing up will mean loss of quality (you can't display things that are not there). For sizing down before upload, there are a lot of free scripts that will let you batch-resize. I prefer Irfan View (http://www.irfanview.com/) for this, one of the most popular...

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