chateau – pictures

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  executivescotland · Member · Mar 9, 2012 at 4:58 pm

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  Ok so other than random stabs in the dark, how can I choose the exact picture, area, cropping and size of a picture displayed on a page using chateau?

  Ive tried all the help tips, cropping, scaling, saving etc etc in every conceivable order except the “one” which is intended. Any help greatfully received

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  timethief · Member · Mar 9, 2012 at 5:09 pm

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  Give that up please. Prepare every image in either desktop image editing software or online image editing software, optimize it and pre-size it to the exact dimensions specified by the theme and then upload the images.
  maximum displayed image width
  sidebar width
  header images
  featured images

  Why? because if you keep uploading large images (1) you are wasting your space allocation and because (2) if you bring the cropper into play there is a loss of image quality. Bloggers who don’t do this end up troubleshooting images.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Mar 9, 2012 at 5:11 pm

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  Are you using an image editor to prepare your images for the web?

  Something like PhotoShop, Elements, iPhoto, Picnik, Gimp, among many other choices?

  For efficient use of your storage space, and to have your pages load as quickly as possible:
  Maximum image size for Chateau is 531/790 depending on whether you have a sidebar or not. You want the images to display at 72dpi which is the maximum web resolution. Images should be compressed to less than 100k, or even 50k.