Unconventional Thumbnail Image Crop

Hey there,

Situation:
I have a particular theme installed that uses modules or goodlayer blocks to build out the pages to the site. Included in one of these modules is an “Image/Frame” inclusion, which allows you to pull an image from the media library and drop it in (similar to “Add Media” in the WYSIWYG editor but a bit more customized). When entering the image into this module, it offers the ability to size the thumbnail to a number of particular sizes, given by the theme. This will show the crop on the front end.

Problem:
The crop of some of the thumbnails that the system spits out seems to grab somewhere in the middle of the image. For example, if I choose a 700×400 thumbnail, and I upload a portrait photo, it will crop to the center, usually cutting off the subjects head and feet. I assumed my solution would be to vertical-align: top my parent divs, but it seems that the second I choose the crop and Update the page, the system doesn’t recognize the full image after the fact, and when I top align everything it’s already top aligned.

This leads me to believe I need to adjust settings in the admin or for the particular 700×400 crop setting to force vertical-align: top prior to updating the page. Not sure though.

And thus I’m stuck. Any help would be greatly appreciated.