Images are too small in Big Grid windows on Desktop

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Please take a look at the attached screenshot and tell me how to resolve this issue: http://screencast.com/t/4ymd1GKpAHS7

Thanks in advance.

– Don 🙂

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Hello Donmartini,

Please try to use Regenerate Thumbnail plugin to fit your all images into the thumbnails. Also, please ensure that you are using the correct size of images for these kinds of thumbnails. Please notice that the theme only crops images, it does not enlarge/stretch them. The image does not fit the container because it is smaller than the container. You will need to upload bigger images or use the ‘thumbnail upscale’ plugin to stretch images.

Hope this helps and let us know how it goes!

Thank you for the message!

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Thanks Catalin, Force Generate does a great job of maximizing the areas to make things fit but in some cases it chops off to much of the image, sometimes it leaves gaps – I’m certain this is due to the overall size of the original. What would be the proportionate dimensions of the original to minimize unsightly cropping? – Don

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Hello Donmartini,

Our theme uses a lot of predefined thumbnails in blocks and modules. If you check the Theme panel->Block settings area you can see the list with all dimension of the thumbs wich is used in the theme and which elements -> blocks/modules uses -> http://screencast.com/t/tQuimSer9 If you want to exclude the cropping system wich you have to use the right dimension for your images.
Our theme uses the system of cropping from center to top. The theme uses thumbs to reduce the page size and speed up page loading time. From each image uploaded are generated thumbs for each thumb size used by the theme. Basically, when a post it’s displayed on the page in a block, the featured image displayed is not the one which you uploaded in the media file, it’s a thumb cropped from the original image at the precise dimension. To change the picture orientation most likely you will need a different cropping system. We use a WordPress function – add_image_size() – you can read about it here – https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_image_size – and here – http://www.davidtan.org/wordpress-hard-crop-vs-soft-crop-difference-comparison-example/
Our theme crop (cut) thumbnails in some cases to avoid creating a lot of thumbnails in order to reduce to load more spaces on the server.

Hope this helps!

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Thank you for the insight Catalin, this was very helpful.

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