Guest huaren Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 Hi guys, I was uploading my product, and it's in GIF format with a transparent background, however after I upload it, the system generated a black background for it's thumb, is there a way i CAN fix this? thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PMinteractive Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 I ran into this problem a while back, its not the fault of CubeCart - I believe it is to do with the graphics module that is part of the server. It should be possible to mod the store to deal with transparency but from what I've read its not an easy task. However, if it is easy please let me/us know! :errm: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PMinteractive Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 Thinking about it, as an alternative you can always create your own thumbnails from your main images using a free image resizing tool, and then upload them over the top of the ones CubeCart creates. You just need to make sure that the filenames are identical (ie the same capitalisation of the whole name including the extension). Good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kelvin Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 I also faces the same problem. As what PMinteractive suggest, The best way is to DIY. To make sure you got the right size, you might want to FTP the thumbnail from the images/uploads/thumbs/ directory to check their size. Altering the image to while background works if you have all white back ground, but if you have different color background, or need to change background color once in a while, there will be a lot of work re-coloring the images. Tedious but works for me. Cheers! I believe the problem is with the way Cubecart generate the thumbnail. Hope it can be fixed in the next update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kelvin Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 Hi, I realised that everytime I go into the product to edit something (may not even be the picture but maybe change description or qty or anything on that page), the thumbnail gets reloaded into the black frame again. Are there anyway to circumvent this beside manually copy over the thumbnail each time I edit that product? It quite tedious work when the number of products grow. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Brookbanks Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 PMinteractive is correct GD cannot interpret transparency in GIF's and will go black instead. Solution export gif images with out transparency. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest peppy Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 You just need to make sure that the filenames are identical (ie the same capitalisation of the whole name including the extension). Erm... I had the problem that i uploaded my images and the server couldn't make thums of it. And to let them viewed as thumbs you have to save them as thumb_*filename*.*ext* :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 Hi, I realised that everytime I go into the product to edit something (may not even be the picture but maybe change description or qty or anything on that page), the thumbnail gets reloaded into the black frame again. Are there anyway to circumvent this beside manually copy over the thumbnail each time I edit that product? It quite tedious work when the number of products grow. Thanks.Hi Kelvin Just doing a search through the forums and came across your post. I'm stuck in the same situation.... i have animated gifs with transparent b/ground and also tried out white/bgrounds... i managed to get both working by way of manually doing my own thumbnails to size and then uploading via ftp to the thumbs folder and ensuring that both the actual image and thumb image are named exactly the same also thumb_ added to the thumbs image. All worked fine until i went into the admin and made a small change to the price, product options etc. When i refreshed my site the thumbnail had been regenerated to its original state which was a static gif with the black b/ground. I was searching the forums today to see if there was some type of tweaking i could do in order to get the thumbnails not to regenerate when you edit the product and save. Has anyone got a fix for this yet? please i'm truly stuck here. Thanks in advance. Cheers Antz :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 Nevermind - got it working! thank-you. Kindest Regards, Antz :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JaxxShirts Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Has there been any update on this issue with transparent images? I have some that have transparency, and it doesn't work to make it the background color because my product page background and category background (where the thumbs are) are different colors. Is the only solution to create all custom thumbs and then upload them manually? Thanks, Rusty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest littlalex Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Howdy Folks - If you're a Windows user it's an easy fix. Download a copy of Irfanview (freeware). Load up your gif or png files and save as...without transparency. Delete the offending images through the control panel and them load the fixed images through same and voila! all fixed. 8^) Irfanview=Great Software Regards, Littlalex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JaxxShirts Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Howdy Folks - If you're a Windows user it's an easy fix. Download a copy of Irfanview (freeware). Load up your gif or png files and save as...without transparency. Delete the offending images through the control panel and them load the fixed images through same and voila! all fixed. 8^) Irfanview=Great Software Regards, Littlalex Yes, I realize you can manually create the transparent thumbnails and manually upload them. But I would not call that an "easy fix". I would more call that an "irritating work around". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest littlalex Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Howdy Folks - If you're a Windows user it's an easy fix. Download a copy of Irfanview (freeware). Load up your gif or png files and save as...without transparency. Delete the offending images through the control panel and them load the fixed images through same and voila! all fixed. 8^) Irfanview=Great Software Regards, Littlalex P.S. - Sorry folks, in my excitement I jumped the gun...my mighty fix is a mighty bust...doesn't work 8^( Littlalex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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