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1. beachball
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hi everyone,

   Is there a way to create your own thumbnails in NextGen Gallery? So, in other words, to upload a main file and a thumbnail file for each image.

   Or failing that, is there a way to re-position the crop area for the auto-generated thumbnails? At present it simply crops the centre of the image which doesn't always make for the best thumbnail.

   Thanks!

2. beachball
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Just to make it clear - I have several long portrait images, but my thumbnails are set landscape or square. Therefore the thumbnail takes only a square section from the middle of the portrait image.

   I am happy with the size and dimensions but would like to shift the crop area up so that, for example, I can show someone's head from the top of the photo rather than their midriff. I am happy to creat my own thumbnails manually but was not sure how then to get NextGen Gallery to recognise them.

   If this is not possible - just say so. A 'no' is better than no answer at all.

   Thanks!

3. JohnMyr
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Integrating Scissors in NextGen would be a very nice solution...

   http://stephanreiter.info/2008/10/wordpress-plugin-scissors/

4. lucieyoung
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Has anything been done yet to fix this? It's pretty annoying that the thumbnails often look silly with - as you say - just someone's midriff instead of their head.

5. LinkCreative
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I am interested in learning if this is possible as well

6. natebeaty
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   looks like this has been done:

   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/232795

   which links to:

   http://www.iliveinperego.com/2009/01/custom-thumbnails-from-ngg-galleries/

7. dpaule
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Any chance that the cropping of thumbnails may be included in the next core upgrade? Thanks.

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