Images Appear Blurry

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  • #481231

    Jeff Adams
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    Man, this just isn’t working. I tried 10,000, 2,000 and nothing works.

    I think it’s this specific site for some reason. My other site VeganLinked.com is not doing this. But ThingsToDoInNC.com is.

    If you download the image you’ll see they’re titled the resolution they are: nc-rivers-mountains-1-768×432. But, I uploaded 2000 by 1124.

    I even renamed the images and then reuploaded them.

    #481271

    Kiran
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    #481457

    Jeff Adams
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    #481461

    Jeff Adams
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    And if you’re going to test it, please test the gallery.

    #481466

    Alex Rollin
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    If you are using the default GD Post Images for the gallery, then, try NOT doing that. Instead make your own decisions about how your site processes and displays images. Stop using the default settings.

    Remove the photos tab in the Tabs UI and add a custom GD shortcode as a tab.
    Inside that new tab (shortcode field) use the shortcode builder to make a new GD Post Images element.
    Set it to gallery with the options you want.
    Set the image size to the one you want in the advanced settings.

    GD is not responsible for the images displayed. GD uses the image sizes setup in WP. You are responsible for configuring your site beyond the defaults. The defaults are just that: defaults. You can adjust the WP image options, as well as adjust the GD element image sizes used.

    Uploading images to the site using a GD field does not make GD an image processor. GD Images are stored in the same folders as all the other WP images. The only thing GD doesn’t do (like uploading through a post) is add every single image to the media library. Some sites have a lot of images and the images are not needed in the media library, or for display on other pages. Adding the images to the media library would slow down listing ‘save’ and ‘load’ with media library data that is unnecessary. It would land many unnecessary images in the library. Answer: don’t load the images to the media library. Otherwise, this is all WP.

    #481503

    Jeff Adams
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    Alex, I’m using images I shot with my Sony a6500. They originally have very high resolution and I’ve only brought that down to about 2K. I’m not doing anything different (that I’m aware of) than I’m doing on VeganLinked.com where I am not having image resolution drops after adding images through GD Add Listing.

    On ThingsToDoInNC.com I have settings/images set to 2000 wide and 2000 tall. I can recreate the details page and add images and the resolution stays great. But, for some reason if I use tabs then the resolution gets knocked down to 738 and the resulting image looks horrible.

    I created a video quick to show what I am talking about.

    https://youtu.be/IqMfyQyewns

    #481504

    Alex Rollin
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    Yeh, I heard you the first time, and explained above how to fix it.

    #481507

    Jeff Adams
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    You said

    If you are using the default GD Post Images for the gallery, then, try NOT doing that. Instead make your own decisions about how your site processes and displays images. Stop using the default settings.

    Default GD Post Images? What does that mean? I’m not using anything default. If you “heard me the first time” why is the first thing you are saying about something I’m not doing?

    I was trying to use the tabs by using shortcode [gd_single_tabs show_as_list=”1″] on the details page. This was so I may use unique tab layouts/settings for each CPT. Isn’t this why GD designed this all this way? Are you saying not to use tabs? If so, then why have that feature?

    I didn’t use any default settings. If you “heard me the first time” you would know that I changed the wp/settings/media to 2000. Isn’t that “making my own decisions” enough? It works on VeganLinked.com this way. The only real difference between VeganLinked (where it works) and ThingsToDoInNC (where it doesn’t work) is VL was a conversion with lots of content and the other was not a conversion, it was always V2 (from beta to now).

    Then you say:

    Remove the photos tab in the Tabs UI and add a custom GD shortcode as a tab.

    I already tried this. But, the problem then is I can’t have the photos where I want them because they’ll be outside of the list. And, the gallery wont be using the tab title the same way as everything else in the list. And, last but not least taking the gallery out of tabs would take it away from the flexibility offered using tabs. So, if you “heard me the first time” then why are you not offering a solution to the problem and instead suggesting a workaround that I’ve already tried that don’t fix the problem but takes away features therefore causing more problems?

    In the video I posted above you can see I added the shortcode as you suggested. Plus I mentioned this earlier already. For GD Image I used “[gd_post_images type=”gallery” ajax_load=”1″ slideshow=”1″ show_title=”1″ animation=”slide” controlnav=”1″ link_to=”lightbox” image_size=”full”]” But, again, this puts the gallery outside of the tab list, takes gallery outside of tab customization per CPT and loses the theme’s title.

    Attached are two images showing what happens using shortcode like I think you’re suggesting which places the gallery outside of the list. I have also tried recreating the entail details page without the list. But, then it loses the lists titles and loses the customization of tabs between CPT’s. I added a third image that shows how the gallery within the Tab UI is correctly.

    I understand you “heard me the first time.” But, you still have not offered a solution. So, hearing me the first time doesn’t seem to be enough, therefore, I’m not sure why you would share what you heard.

    The only true “fix” is resolving why the images are not adapting the correct resolution when adding them to a GD listing’s GD image Gallery displayed within the tabs list. So please help, what can be done to fix it so when adding images to the GD gallery they are adopting the correct size set in WP/Settings/Media so I can keep using the tab feature and keep the gallery within the tab list?

    #481511

    Jeff Adams
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    And, you said

    GD is not responsible for the images displayed. GD uses the image sizes setup in WP.

    No, this is exactly what GD is not doing. I have wp set for 2000. Yet when I use GD Add Listing to add images to the GD image gallery the GD gallery is showing the image at a completely different resolution than what I have in WP (less than half what I have it set at).

    Am I overlooking something? Is there a way to set the image size for images in the GD gallery tabs? Because I’ve looked and found nothing. The only two places I’ve found are in the shortcode builder which doesn’t apply to tabs and in WP/Settings/media.

    #481541

    Alex Rollin
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    #481597

    Jeff Adams
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    #481876

    Kiran
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    #482356

    Jeff Adams
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    #482358

    Jeff Adams
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    Alrighty, for the record, for some reason the wp/settings/image was not working. So, that was really throwing me off. For anyone else that may be wondering, concisely what I did was:

    1. select the CPT Settings (e.g. Places/Settings)
    2. select the tab “Tabs”.
    3. remove Photos from the tabs
    4. scroll down to the “Custom Fields” and click on “Shortcodes”
    5. name the shortcodes tab Photos. Add the “GD Post Images” shortcode to the Shortcodes tab content. You can even use the shortcode builder there!

    This works great. I didn’t realize that shortcodes was an option for the Tab UI. Alex tried to explain it to me but I didn’t understand until I read deeper into the documentation Alex provided. Thanks for putting up with me everyone! 🙂 Hope you all are having a great day!

    #482456

    Kiran
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