Hello Kray,

Sorry for the late reply. The thumbnail quality is set when you upload the image. When you change the settings, it will only affect newly uploaded images. The old images won't be affected. Please re-upload your image and re-insert it.

Thanks!

Sorry Adelene,
I did mean to mention that I have already done that.

I did it again just now to make sure.

Delete image, delete from Media Manager and save post. Re-upload and select image, save post, same issue.

Hello Kray,

So sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I checked your issue and this is actually because your default thumbnail size is 150px x 150px. Please set the thumbnail to a bigger size or set the insert size to a smaller size. This way the image won't be distorted. Hope this helps.

Thanks!

OK, I'm still a bit confused here. If it's set to 150x150 (Which I swear was 300 before I posted), why is the thumbnail displaying so large? I inserted through Media Manager and it isn't anywhere close to 150x150... so where is it getting it's current dimensions from????

Hello Kray,

Sorry for the late reply. Not sure why the settings changed but the insert image size is determined in backend -> EasyBlog -> Settings -> Media -> Media Manager under the Image Panel section. Hope this helps.

Thanks!

Not really.

As mentioned, Thumbnails are set to 150x150, so why is the thumbnail displaying so large?

There's obviously something wrong here, it's not listening to the Thumbnail size that's in the Media Manager settings...

Hello Kray,

The size of the image and the size of the inserted image are two different things. When you upload the image is resized to 150x150. Then when you insert the image you control the size too. In your case it is stretched to about 400x400. That is why the images are blurred. You can do 2 things here.

1. Insert the image as it's current size 150 x 150
2. increase the size of the inserted images to about 400x400

Thanks!

Still confused. I did not select or define a size when I insert the image.

I upload, I click the Insert button and it ads it to my post.

So where is it getting the image size from! If It's not from me, and it's not from the Thumbnail size... Where is is coming from!

Just to clarify, I am not a newbie or anything. I have been doing graphic and web design for 15 years (Not to mention teaching web design for the past 4 years), I know all about image sizing and resolution.

This is just baffling me though. I really don't want to add another step of having to manually specify sizes for my inserted images. I want to be able to upload and click insert and move on.

Hello Kray,

So sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I missed out your post. There are 2 separate settings as I mentioned earlier. The first is for the thumbnail size. This is implemented when you upload the image. This will resize the image physically. In this case your site's is set to 150x150 in backend -> EasyBlog -> Settings -> Media -> General under the Thumbnail section.

The second settings is the automatic size to display when inserted. This is in backend -> EasyBlog -> Settings -> Media -> Media Manager under the Image Panel section. This controls the display size which means the image will be stretched or compress depending on the thumbnail size and the display size. Does this clear things up?

Thanks!

OK, this still doesn't make a lot of sense. I ran this by a couple of friends in the graphics/web industry and they are also a bit baffled.

What exactly is a "Thumbnail" if it's not what is being inserted into the post?

The "Thumbnail" should be the smaller image thats inserted into the post, and the 'resized' original is what pops up when clicked. This is essentially the definition of a thumbnail and what web designers have been doing for years.

So, if I understand correctly. What I insert in the Post is not actually a thumbnail, but it's using the thumbnail size and then stretching it to fit the size defined in the Image Panel section??

Please tell me you see where all the confusion is coming from here. You are actually providing 3 options to provide an image size, and it's using all three (You ask for Original Image Size (Which is what it get's resized to) on the General Tab, Thumbnail Size on the General Tab and Image Panel Size on the Media Manager tab.).

There should only be 2. Thumbnail size (What's inserted into a post) and Full size/Original (What's displayed when you click the thumbnail).

Hello Kray,

Sorry for the confusion here. For now this is the way our Media Manager works and I'm afraid I do not have any other suggestion to solve your issue other that the 2 ways I presented to your earlier. I understand it not right to do it this way but we can't really change the way it works now. Please be assured that your blurry image issue can be fix so no worries about that.

Thanks!

Hello,

i think i find the error. If i upload a picture with 300 x 300 the media manager change the size to 116x 150. But in Backend the size for original images in media-manager is 300x300 and for tumbnails . Means if you put this image in a post it will blow up and than its looks very bad in quality. In Global i put the size for Tumbnails 150x150 and original 500x500. Means also here the Image will blowup and its looks very bad in quality.

So if you upload a image with 300x300 and the mediamanager resize the image, normally the image in mediamanger must be total clear and good quality. But in my media manager all pictures bad quality.

In the media manager you can set the size from a image manually over adapt. I make now a new tumbnail size and for the original image i force image dimensions to the original size before i upload this image. But this is not the right way, than the backend settings for images is virtually useless.

The Question is, why must be resize the image in the media-manager by automatic? Why is not possible thats i upload the image with original size in media manager and than i resize the image to default size in a Post? I think we have here two size conflicts. By the way its very confused.

So maybe somebody have i right idea how we can handle it.

My global settings



My media manager settings