A Couple of Final Questions:

  • Resolved deeveearr

    (@deeveearr)


    3 years ago

    Hi guys,

    If I go into one of my sliders and click onto Content> Style> and scroll down to ‘effect’, there’s a setting in there called ‘crop’.

    Usually I make sure that my images are all cropped nicely anyway, but I like to see how everything works, so I tried it on a throwaway image.

    Not being able to get any cropping done at all, how does the crop setting work?

    Again in the Content> Style section but going this time to the ‘content background’ section, I followed one of the videos in your channel to give the image a slightly darker background – viz-a-viz I made the whole background black and then slid the opacity slider to the desired effect.

    I’m getting a problem this time though in that the image is getting a slightly lightened border around all of the edges.

    How do I get rid of this slightly lightened border?

    For info, I’m trying to create a full page slider with the recommended (by another of the videos) settings of 1920px x 1080px.

    Any help with these two problems would be much appreciated, thanks.

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  • Plugin Support Gabor

    (@nextendweb_gabor)

    3 years ago

    Hi @deeveearr!

    The crop setting was created to hide overflowing parts. On the content layer you can see this for example if you set a maximum width on it:

    then the Slide’s background:
    https://smartslider.helpscoutdocs.com/article/1724-slide
    won’t be visible outside the content layer’s area.

    So this setting isn’t really useful for cropping images to adjust them to your slides, but it was mainly created for our older system, where we only had absolute layers:

    and people needed a way to not let their any-size image overflow texts under it. With default positioning this is solved without having to use cropping, so I don’t really suggest using this option, as it isn’t useful with our current system anymore. We might consider deprecating it in the future.

    You should note, that our main element is the Slide, not the Content:
    https://smartslider.helpscoutdocs.com/article/1724-slide
    The Content element doesn’t have that opacity darkening you are looking for, but the Slide does, so you should rather add your images and colors with opacity to the Slide.

    Probably the lightened border is created by the cropping and the Content – Slide difference, that you aren’t using an element which covers the entire slide. Once you will use the Slide and won’t use any cropping, this might will be resolved.

    Also please note, that this forum’s rules are only allowing us to support the Free version of our product. If you will need more help, please send us an export of your slider:
    https://smartslider.helpscoutdocs.com/article/1728-export-import-slider
    through this form:
    https://smartslider3.com/contact-us/support/?topic=Editing&platform=WordPress&version=Pro&slider-export=slider-yes
    and we will continue to help there!

    Thread Starter deeveearr

    (@deeveearr)

    3 years ago

    Ahh, right.

    Yes, I thought the crop setting was a little pointless as is, which is why I havent used it.

    The lightened border is indeed caused by the content slide difference.

    So I removed all of the edits in the content section, and made similar edits in the ‘slide’ section – and turned the overlay tab to ‘on’.

    Looks really good now, with no lightened borders anywhere.

    Thanks for the solution!

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