Thumbnail Editing Modal is Blank & Other Thumbnails related Issue

Hi pixelyzed,

For the first issue, I want to take a look at it, but since this a rather difficult issue, I would ask you file an issue here: https://bitbucket.org/niknetniko/nextcellent/issues.

For the second issue I understand what you want, but isn’t it possible for users to change the size of the thumbnails from the bulk actions?

If this second issue is a really big one, I suggest not updating until we release a newer version with the feature in it.

Hi there!

Thanks for the quick response. Much appreciated. I will file an issue at Bitbucket.

As for the second issue, yes it’s possible to change the thumbnail from the bulk actions but the size is just part of the thing. These are artists creating image galleries of paintings of all different sizes and formats. Further, the bulk actions simply centers the thumbnail while what they’ve always been able to do with NextGen 1.9.13 and before and NextCellent until 1.9.30 is draw their own thumbnail anywhere in the image (which is rarely if ever dead center) and save it like that and the size set in settings and the personalized crop they made (using the predefined format ratio) would be honored and displayed correctly on the front en as in the 3 correct galeries I linked to before. Photographers would need the same thing and, to me, that is the primary use case.

I understand that the new behavior would be useful to many I’m sure, but respecting the size and ratio in settings when creatting a personalized crop remains in my opinion the main use case and what most people will expect to be able to do to do. Removing that behavior makes NextCellent much less useful to many people IMO. It makes it unusable as it is for this site and the several other artists sites I’ve used NextGen 1.9.x/NextCellent on.

Did I describe the use case more clearly?

Thanks!

Hi again Niko,

Just created an issue on BitBucket. If you need access to the dev site, please write me an email at: stephane (at) pixelyzed (dot) com and I will give you my login details.

Thanks again for your excellent support!

I have modified the thumbnail editor to have the same behavior as the old one by default. You can set an option to allow custom thumbnail sizes (for example if you use a masonry-style gallery display).

It would be of great help if you could try out the changes to see if this is what you mean. A modified version of NextCellent gallery can be downloaded from this address: https://bitbucket.org/niknetniko/nextcellent/downloads/nextcellent-thumb.zip

(See bitbucket for the other issue).

Hi Niko!

Wow! That was fast! And it works exactly as expected. With the setting off (which it seems to be by default which is good), things work exactly as before in terms of size and ratio but with the nicer UI and grid within the thumbnail rectangle. That’s fantastic!

Turning the setting on also works great and will indeed be awesome for those wanting a masonry type layout.

This solves that issue for us. Thank you so much!

As a guy with experience in UX, the other thing I’m sure some people will request is to be able to toggle between the old “constrained” behavior that we need and the new one but individually for each image. The “Different sizes” setting would control default behavior but I’m sure some poeple will want individual override.

But as far as I’m concerned, for my artist users, this new version works perfectly and, in our case, those users do not have access to the main settings anyway so they can’t break things just like it’s always been before.

Thank you, thank you! ?? Will check the Bitbucket issue next.

Hello,

does the new thumbnail editor solve also the issue on mobile phones? I mean retina display. Currently let’s say I use 160×160 thumbnails, which look fine on my desktop computer. However, on a full or quad HD mobile sreen there is only one thumbnail in a row, and the resolution is quite low, looks pixellated. It would be nice to have retina (high-res) thumbnails on mobile phones.

Hi weigertj,

No, the thumbnail editor is completely separate from that. NextCellent generates one set of thumbnails, in the size specified by the user. Changing this to accommodate displays with larger displays is something we are looking at, but will be far in the future.

I recommend making bigger thumbnails, and using CSS to set the size of the images on a webpage.

Should you need more assistance, please make your own thread here in the forums.

@pixelyzed The button is a nice idea, but not really easy to implement due to the way NextCellent combines javascript and php. I will keep it in mind though.

Hi niketniko,

yes, I was thinking on generating larger thumbnails and it would solve the problem more or less. Thanks for the tip!

@niknetniko Understood! ?? As I said, I’m just sure it’s something some users will request but as it is, the feature now works perfectly again for our users’ needs.

Thank you very much!

Forgot to mark this as resolved. Thanks again! ??