05-04-2022, 10:18 PM
(05-04-2022, 10:02 PM)SMcNeill Wrote:(05-04-2022, 03:30 PM)dcromley Wrote: When I add an image, it gets truncated to be square.
The thread https://staging.qb64phoenix.com/showthre...ght=plasma has large and non-square images.
What am I missing?
Folks are saying a lot of things which I don't quite understand either... Here's how I know that the images work, and perhaps this will make sense for you:
Default images load into a thumbnail to preserve post space, and a reader can click on them to expand those to view them in their full glory if they want.
Images that aren't thumbnails are posted with the width and height included in the image tag.
For example, if you click the "VIEW SOURCE" button on various different posts, you'll see images formatted in either of the following matter:
Code: (Select All)[img]https://your image link here.ext[/img]
[img=500x500]https://your image link here.ext[/img]
The first is just a default img tag, and will go into a thumbnail.
The second specifies the width and height of the image to display and won't create those thumbnail placeholders.
To recap, image posting solutions for a wide rectangular image to show up completely as either an attachment or as a thumbnail.
As an attachment: Do nothing to the image, just drag it into the forum area marked to drop attachments. Done. It will display as it looks, no truncating, but it will only be visible at the bottom of your post. bplus method.
As a thumbnail that when clicked expands to the full size image in a new tab: Use an image editor to expand the canvas height to the image width, thus making it square. Save it on your computer, and then use the "Add image to post" button to upload it, following the instructions on the popup. Pete method.
Or... Live with it as a cropped thumbnail and hope the visitor clicks to enlarge it to see all of the image.
Oh, the "Add image to post" method has a resize editor but I had mostly no luck using it. Most posts got cropped, anyway. It would be nice if setting the width to 500 (it auto-sizes height) would do the trick all the time, but no.
Pete