Feature imaging driving me mad!

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    delciate · Member ·

    Hi!

    Just opened up a new wordpress account and started a blog. I’m having an issue with featured images. Each one I upload seems to be too big. It’s almost as though the site is blowing up the images or just focusing on the middle bit of images. I’ve tried re-sizing through admin->media, tried editing the actual image on wordpress and on aperçu (the default pdf app for mac – not sure what it’s called in English, sorry!) and nothing has worked. I’ve spent 3 hours trying to fix this, to get the entire image to fit into the featured images space but I just can’t do it!

    I should mention the images I’ve tried to use are all portraits and not landscape, although the one landscape picture I tried also had this problem. I’ve resorted to just adding the image into the actual post but I would really much prefer having it be a featured image.

    Any suggestions?

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    timethief · Member ·

    The live demo site is here https://radcliffedemo.wordpress.com/

    The detailed theme description page is here https://wordpress.com/themes/radcliffe/

    Scroll down to this section:

    Quick Specs (all measurements in pixels):

    The main column width is 740.
    Featured Images for posts and pages should be at least 1440 in width and 550 in height.
    Custom header image should be at least 1440 in width.
    The Site Logo will appear at a maximum height of 150.

    Are you optimizing https://en.support.wordpress.com/media/image-optimization/ and pre-sizing images so they are the exact dimensions for featured images required by the theme prior to uploading them?

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    delciate · Member ·

    Hi timethief,

    Well I’m not entirely sure how to manually optimise so I’ve used imageoptimizer.net

    Typed in 1440 and 550 as the dimensions and spat out an image with dimensions of 395×550.

    I’ve tried using that as the featured image and it looks pretty similar to what it’s been doing all day..

    I’m not entirely sure what you mean by ‘pre-sizing’.

    Cheers

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    delciate · Member ·

    Didn’t read the notice about the measurements being in pixels!

    Worked like a charm, but I’ve realised I actually don’t like the image I’ve used.

    Thanks for the help!

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