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[Opuntia]

From what I can tell, when adding a photo to an event, trumba doesn't resize the image. What's the maximum size image that's required for the promotional photo spud so that the whole photo is displayed. I found your help page on this http://www.trumba.co...imagetable.aspx but my photo (170 x 134px) is too big for that spud. If there is a maximum size for that spud, you may want to state what it is on the help page.

Thanks,
Matt

[Steve A]

Hi Matt,
You are correct, as Trumba does crop the images, from the center of the image outwards. There are two types of images you can embed with an event: Event Image and Detail Image. The Event Image is the small thumbnail that some of the calendar views support; displays in a featured event; and displays in the Photo Upcoming spud. You will want to determine the image size for Event Image by locating the Edit Settings & Styles for each of these spuds and then click on the Styles tab. Here you will see an image width and height setting. Once you make that setting change, that becomes your maximum event image size that you can upload/attach to the event. Also, I like to set the border and background to “ transparent” in the event you add an image that is smaller than the preferred size it will prevent a background color from showing through around the edges of the images and look cleaner.

The Detail Image size is determined by the width of the main calendar spud. If you are embedding the Main Calendar spud within a cell in a table for example, the cell width would be the maximum width you would want to use for the Detail Image and the height would not have a restriction.

Thanks-
Steve

[Opuntia]

Steve,

Thanks for the quick reply and thanks for the answer. I didn't even think about looking in the style tab.

-Matt

[Steve A]

Trumba just released an enhancement for event image resizing across supported promotion spuds and calendar views. You will see this for the Photo Upcoming Spud as well as a few of the Calendar Views. You can now have the images automatically scale down to a specific size that you specify instead of having to resize the image prior to adding them to your events.

For example, if you select Publish>Promotion Spuds tab and then click Edit Settings & Styles for the Promotion Spud you will now see we have added these Image Options:



If you change this to “Reduce” and set the width to 100 (Pixels) then all event images will be scaled to this width.



The option to Show image placeholder will automatically add a space (blank image) to the left of the event information. For example, here is promotion spud with no image placeholder and you can see the events with no images stay flush left:



Here is the same promotion spud using an image placeholder and the event are indented:



Now that we have this new enhancement in place, if you are allowing image submissions using the Event Submission Form, you won’t have to worry about having to manually resize the images for the events as you can control them by the calendar settings and promotion spud settings. Submitters can submit any image size and they will automatically scale to the width or height you specify in your calendar and promotion spuds.

Thanks,
Steve