Hi All,

When I am uploading images using the image manager, my small resize is 200 pixels and the medium resize is 400 pixels, this is great for the images and products I am uploading for now, however when I have 1000's of products on the store, and down the line if I want to change e.g. the medium to 600 pixels, and the small to 250, this really isnt possible is it with ECT unless we re-upload all images?

Is this where using an image resize company is best like what MagicToolBox offer, https://sirv.com/?utm_source=signature&utm_medium=email&utm_content=signature1

It would have been great for a similar functionality inbuilt in ECT

Jason

Hi Jason
The image uploader is a good way to upload and resize images in small / medium quantites. But if you've got that many images I would look at a batch resizer. Just plugging that into google comes up with...
https://www.google.com/search?q=batch+image+resizer&oq=batch+image+resiz&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0i457j0l6.6919j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
...but maybe someone has personal experience. That way you could set up your size requirements and do all the images in a batch, and if your requirements change just resize them. Then use FTP to upload which is always going to be the fastest way to move lots of images to your website.
The link you posted I believe is to a company that hosts the images for you which is another way to do this.

Vince

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Hi Jason,

If you have Photoshop you can setup actions to do this.

You can setup and save your action, open a bunch of images and run the action.

Photoshop then runs the action of each image.

Regards,
David

David,

I agree this can be done on PS.

The images I upload are size 1000 x 1000 pixels + and then the image re-sizer changes them to 400 wide and 200 wide.

Do you know if on the server the images are saved during that upload process as 1000 x 1000 ?

I know the images I save on my local drive do now have the siffixes _small and medium_ so in theory I have to rename all the images on my local drive to show the originalfilename.jpg to originalfilename_small.jpg etc first? before running batch process to re-upload to server?

I want to get this process set now before ive uploaded 1000's of new products

Jason

I've just downloaded from the server the product images for one product, so the server keeps the giant image the same size, and then it keeps the resize medium and small, which on mine is 400 and 200 wide.

So with the original giant image already being on the server, is it not possible for someone to create a script, to run that process automatically on the server to re-size from the giant image? If not, then The batch idea is the best, but i think long term for busy ecommerce sites it needs CDN

ECT could offer this down the line, I know I would pay for this. But for now it might be Cloudflare that I use.

Jason

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is it not possible for someone to create a script, to run that process automatically on the server to re-size from the giant image?

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Sure it is, you could use the same image for the small medium and giant images and use css to resize them - see below but I wouldn't recommend it

.prodimage img{ width:200px;}
.detailimage img {width: 400px;}

The problem using this method is page load speeds because you're actually loading a 1000px wide image for both the small and large images.

I would do a batch resize, I could resize a few thousand images in an hour or so, this would include renaming them and uploading the path data to the database using the built in csv feature.

If you want me to give you a price send me your specifications, we do this all the time for ECT clients



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This is a great idea and would mean less headache for me through the year to do this. I believe all CET customers could benefit from this.

Some of the UK's biggest retailers eg. JL, change the image sizes through the year, and link back to analytics to compare whether having larger more prominent images converts more orders than smaller images.

I will be in touch very soon for a price.

Jason