In the whole Caedes experience the only thing that's ever mildly bothered me was the lack of control you have over how images get cropped when they're resized for different aspect ratios. It never bothered me much until I posted "Look Up!" tonight.
I used to only post 1280x1024 images, but lately I've started posting 1600x1200 for those people using higher resolutions. In the original upload of "Look Up!" the central rose of the ceiling is central on the image. On the 1280x1024 resize it's been cropped along the bottom and the symmetry is lost. Somewhere, a small child is crying :(
Might it be possible for a solution to this problem to be implemented by the gods of Caedes? I humbly suggest either:
1) Allow multiple versions of the same image to be uploaded for each aspect ratio (1.25 and 1.33). I suspect that lower res versions are dynamically generated and that this would therefore add hugely to Caedes data storage requirements if widely used.
2) If lower resolution images are generated dynamically, add the ability for the uploader to specify a preferred resizing method on the upload form. Options could be "crop all borders as equally as possible", "protect left border", "letterbox" (with selectable colour for the letterbox effect) , etc. etc.
3) Find a better way of saying "crop all borders as equally as possible" :)
I'm looking forward to seeing if this strikes a chord with anyone else.
I used to only post 1280x1024 images, but lately I've started posting 1600x1200 for those people using higher resolutions. In the original upload of "Look Up!" the central rose of the ceiling is central on the image. On the 1280x1024 resize it's been cropped along the bottom and the symmetry is lost. Somewhere, a small child is crying :(
Might it be possible for a solution to this problem to be implemented by the gods of Caedes? I humbly suggest either:
1) Allow multiple versions of the same image to be uploaded for each aspect ratio (1.25 and 1.33). I suspect that lower res versions are dynamically generated and that this would therefore add hugely to Caedes data storage requirements if widely used.
2) If lower resolution images are generated dynamically, add the ability for the uploader to specify a preferred resizing method on the upload form. Options could be "crop all borders as equally as possible", "protect left border", "letterbox" (with selectable colour for the letterbox effect) , etc. etc.
3) Find a better way of saying "crop all borders as equally as possible" :)
I'm looking forward to seeing if this strikes a chord with anyone else.