Hello,
The thumbnails are getting zoomed in/cut off than the original featured image size. I used regenerate thumbnail, but still it remains same.
Yes, when the aspect ratio of thumbnails is different from the original image, it will be cropped; this is normal and usually works perfectly on photos – not so well with logos. Usually what we do with logos is put them on a gradient background or color backing, and then leave more “white space” around the logo to fit the thumbnail sizes better. This is common to all thumbnail systems — basically if it didn’t crop in some dimension, you’d get distorted stretched image in one x or y direction.
This might not apply to your case, but that has been my own experience.
Yes, but is there a way to show original images rather than cropped images?
I know we get these type of problems after changing themes. The slider images are also weird first. but after using regenerate thumbnails plugin, the slider images got fixed but the images in block and modules remains the same.
I tried changing the thumbnail size in functions.php from 180×135 (module 10) to custom size, but it never changed too.
Thanks.
Hi,
As Christopher write this happens because of the cropping function and to somehow avoid this you could an image near to the aspect ration of the thumbs in which you want it to look well. You can read more about aspect ratio here: http://digital-photography-school.com/aspect-ratio-what-it-is-and-why-it-matters/
You can also read more about function which creates the thumbs and WordPress cropping here:
1. http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_image_size
2. http://www.davidtan.org/wordpress-hard-crop-vs-soft-crop-difference-comparison-example/
Also note that if you decide to change some thumbnails sizes you’ll need to regenerate thumbnails again in order to apply changes.
Thanks
