Hi Dave (or anyone!)
This is a bit long because I’ve typed as I’ve tried out various permutations.
The photos are scanned as Tiffs and then resized to JPEG and watermarked. In the themed folders we kept them in, they are all Jpegs, not gifs. I don’t understand why the images are now Gifs.
We originally had quite large files, but it made the page slow to load (this was when we were using iWeb). Also someone pointed out that the file sizes were so big, people would be able to make high resolution digital images just by yanking them off the web. So they are now mostly much smaller. The thing is, is that because they are hand printed, they are all slightly different sizes, so I can’t really make it all one fixed size. Please bear in mind that I know absolutely eff all about digital graphics and to compound my frustrations I have dyscalculia so the whole file size and resizing thing is really really difficult for me to get my head around.
Anyway, what I do is make duplicate graphic fields of the most common proportions for that gallery. I import with Cmd+E and the do ctrl/click to get the graphics menu up and I chose ‘scale and pad’. Then I either drag the sides or top/bottom in if necessary. This worked fine for a number of galleries and images, but I got to the later ones and no joy after the first 3 or 4.
I made a couple of test pages using different sized files, from different time periods and in different orders, but it’s all the same. I get to image 3 or 4 and I can’t do a manual drag to resize, no matter what kind of file or when it was created.
And here’s a weird thing. The first upload of the site, where the borders were too big, I got white on either size of the photograph, but now I don’t. Look at this:
This is the original gallery page:
http://matthew-ellis-photography.com/matthewellisfinl.html
You can see from the 4th image on that I couldn’t resize and so get the white boarders.
OK, now here’s the duplicate page.
http://matthew-ellis-photography.com/u3.html
The ONLY change is that I swapped the first two images with the 5th and 6th, but look, no white borders! Anywhere! If this had happened the first time, I wouldn’t have cared. Seriously, this is odd, surely? It can’t just be down to me being crap at this kind of stuff if that happened.
So, are my only options to duplicate all the pages or should I carry on manually resizing using the HxW pixel field in the inspector window.
Or maybe someone from freeway might see that there is a bit of a glitch and fix it?
Well done anyone who bothered to read all that!
Liz
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