HOW-TO: Image Preparation

**dmGremlin** · 24 Mar 2006, 05:57 AM

Is there any way to switch off the 'larger image' link in the product listing, only for the regular sized image and not the additional images?

For example, on most products I only want to use the thumbnail and the regular sized images - I'll add the larger images as additional images below the description when there is a larger image. Therefore, I'd like to remove the 'larger image' link altogether, so that I don't have to worry about creating large images for everything.

If code modifications are necessary to do this, can someone please point me in the direction of the files I'm going to need to alter?

**MrPotatoes** · 31 Mar 2006, 11:05 PM

i'm having some problems with this

i batched al my images for my site in photoshop. every image has this:

images / image.JPG (a)
images / medium / image_MED.JPG
images / large / image_LRG.JPG

what i'm trying to do:

images / image.JPG (a)
images / medium / fordracing / image_MED.JPG
images / large / fordracing / image_LRG.JPG

what i want to do is tidy up the images so that it's easier to work with. what i have right now is 100 images and could quite possibly get much much larger. i don't want to go crazy looking for pictures and having everything in that folder. doesn't matter my reasoning, it's to be tidy

either way, the folders (med/lrg) are named correctly with in them. and all the files are set to: 644 and the folders are set to 755

lastly, where am i suposed to put the small images (B)? i put it in the folder called small an that didn't work

a. still the original size will change soon
b. image_SM.JPG

**Ryk** · 31 Mar 2006, 11:15 PM

The small images go in images or images/fordracing

You must remember that you would normally upload the image via the product data entry page where you would say where you are uploading the image to for the purposes of the path to be stored.

You will either need to edit every product manually or change the paths directly in the database (or using EZPopulate)

And images directories are supposed to be 777

**MrPotatoes** · 31 Mar 2006, 11:32 PM

lmao, damn you. i just figured that out

also, it might be the host (value web) but i have it to 755 and it works

might wanna add that to your tutorial. i must have glanced over it but i didn't see it there. i'm just hapy that i figured it out

and yea, easy populate worked it perfectly.

this place rules

**quahogian** · 2 Apr 2006, 02:12 AM

hi

i know I sould be able to display multiple images on the product page, I even see the submenu in Images menu saying that I have by default 3 additional images per row. I don't see though where to add more images to the product page. I'm fine with the way 1.2.7 handles images, I uplload images with about 600x400 and it resizes it fine for a thumbnaile, I would just like few more images for the product. I appologize if this been covered a trilion time, can you just point me to the right thread maybe, thanx.

**Ajeh** · 2 Apr 2006, 02:22 AM

Only the base image in the products table is added via the Admin ...

All other images for the Product are added via FTP to the proper directories and are auto located based on the base image for the Product ...

Do a search on images/medium for additional information on this ...

**quahogian** · 2 Apr 2006, 03:26 AM

cool, thanx..I got it working B)

**lloyd_borrett** · 11 Apr 2006, 03:16 PM

G'day,

Any chance that someone has an Adobe PhotoShop action that when given a set of images, plus the details of the small, medium and large image size definitions, will output a suitable set of files?

Best Regards, Lloyd.

**SodaJim** · 12 Apr 2006, 09:17 PM

Lloyd,

For CS2, utilize the Image Processor.
File > Scripts > Image Processor

For CS, you'll need to download Dr. Brown's Image Processor 2.3 and install it so you can accomplish the task. This script is the predacessor to the script in CS2. You can get it here:

Dr. Browns Image Processor

Hopefully hlepful,
Jim

**timkroeger** · 14 Apr 2006, 04:04 PM

Just to let you know, Image Handler 2 is out to solve all your resizing and watermarking problems. No need to prepare your images and upload different sizes anymore as long as your server supports either ImageMagick or GD libraries (check Admin->Tools->Server Info).

Cheers,
Tim