Images

[deemurphy]

When we click on the larger image, where can we change how large we want the image, mine currently comes up in the default and you can not see the details.

Thank you
LadyDee

[Ajeh]

The large image is the actual image size of the image without any changes ...

[deemurphy]

My images are 140 width and 150 height so they can fit on the Zen cart, but in images I have everything set to 600 width and 450 height that is in the admin. If I make the actual image large it goes off the zen cart and everything gets distorted.

Thank You
LadyDee

[Ajeh]

Zen Cart is designed for 3 images:

Small images are used as the little thumbnails throughout the site ...
Small Images: fred.jpg
Directory: /images

Medium images are used on the product _info page ...
Medium Images: fred_MED.jpg
/images/medium

Large images are used when you click on the small or medium image and want a large image (full sized image)
Large Images: fred_LRG.jpg
/images/large

Then you can have unlimited additional small images:
/images
Small Images: fred_01.jpg
Small Images: fred_02.jpg
Small Images: fred_03.jpg
Small Images: fred_abc.jpg
Small Images: fred_xyz.jpg
Small Images: fred_zzz.jpg
etc. etc.

These can have matching additional large images:
/images/large
Large Images: fred_01_LRG.jpg
Large Images: fred_02_LRG.jpg
Large Images: fred_03_LRG.jpg
Large Images: fred_abc_LRG.jpg
Large Images: fred_xyz_LRG.jpg
Large Images: fred_zzz_LRG.jpg
etc. etc.

While you can use 1 image for everything, this is not efficient as the image would probably be huge to manage all circumstances ...

A search in the Tutorials/FAQs or the forum for:
image

should bring up a wealth of information on how to use images and directories and more ...

[deemurphy]

Thank you Your answer was so very helpful and now I am understanding this much better

Thank you again
LadyDee

[Ajeh]

You are most welcome ... just take your time with it and you should do fine ...

NOTE: avoid special characters and spaces in your filenames and you will have a better time of things ...