Just scanned, from a batch of Agfa RSXII transparency, developed by Colorworld in North Shields with no detectable dust whatsoever.
Trying out Wordpress 2.5’s new Gallery feature, and would like people’s top choices from the 7 here, which to one(s) to process further, and any tips or suggestions for improvement in Lightroom or CS3 would be more than welcome. Not fond of HDR or apocalyptic skies, but if you want to give it a go, please go ahead and link back.
My fave is #4. The ones that got away include the owner of the world’s tiniest dog walking, unleashed and without lifeboats, right by the railings.
Edit
That’s not much use: needs additional coding to make it possible to scroll through those thumbnails, and to link them to the original images, not to whole new pages, and they’ve arrived in the wrong order with no way to move them about. Hmm… If you see a kludge or a plugin out there, please add it to the comments.
Edit #2: And that one’s pixellated, isn’t it? Hmm.
Edit #3: Sussed, thanks to Dave.
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I think the gallery functions need a bit of polish before they’re really ready.
I can see the benefit of a thumbnail linking to a page for the single image because you can link to that page and leave comments on that single image – it would be nice to have more control though and choose to use that or not.
As for the pixelated one, it looks like, whatever image size you had originally, it’s insterted in to this post using the ‘medium size’ option. The dimensions of that are set in the Miscellaneous options area. After a few test goes, I set the medium size dimensions there to be the width of the main content column, then uploaded my image again. Then when you insert a medium size image, you get it fitting snugly without any pixelation.
My missing piece now is altering the page you land on when you click on a thumbnail. It seems (for me at least) to want to display a 450 pixel wide image which is actually the original size upload, but scaled down to fit just using html tags – so it looks nasty! – I’d much rather it displayed the medium size one that is created at upload time.
Having said all that, all of this has just been released in the last few days and it’s only a matter of time before improvements are made and all of the plugin creators go nuts with it.
I reckon this could be a really nice feature in the near future.
So, if I change the values of the Medium Size in the admin panel to 500 (the width of this column), it will kill the pixellation? Yes, fab, will do just that.
Agree completely about the rest. I have no idea why they think anyone would want to link thumbnails to a WP post/page. We could do with at least a scrolling arrow or something to hop from one to another. I saw one somewhere recently, and assumed it was the WP 2.5 new standard. Donncha’s I believe.
Yes, it’ll be great when the mob all turn up to fix it all.
Woah! It was worth getting out the car after all :)
The one you’ve got big there is fabulous. And it doesn’t need anything doing to it I shouldn’t think
Hey – make sure you wear more clothes next time. There’s a proper fishin’ handwarmer on the desk here: a real charcoal fire in a tin. That would’ve helped.
So glad you like it. The little dog that got away…… poor thing. :)