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Posted
Being an unadventurous and incurious sort, I hadn't actually clicked on my name on the new website, but when I did (by accident: I was trying to click on a subject heading) I discovered a marvellous resource - many (all?) of my paintings and drawings are there, and looking good (well: looking as good as they were ever going to look, anyway). You probably all know this, but if not, give your name a click and see what it reveals!
Posted
I like the new gallery. But there's definitely some odd stuff going on. I'm using a desktop PC and Google. If I click on my account, then my art, I see my pictures as thumbnails with the title alongside the image...the thumbnails are a standard size, almost square, so most pics are cropped.
When I'm looking at one of my images in the gallery, and click on 'view full profile', I get the same as Micheal...thumbnails with the titles on top of the image. I've only just noticed this, because I access my pics (to look at comments) via 'my account/my art'.
Weird!
Posted
I like the new gallery. But there's definitely some odd stuff going on. I'm using a desktop PC and Google. If I click on my account, then my art, I see my pictures as thumbnails with the title alongside the image...the thumbnails are a standard size, almost square, so most pics are cropped. When I'm looking at one of my images in the gallery, and click on 'view full profile', I get the same as Micheal...thumbnails with the titles on top of the image. I've only just noticed this, because I access my pics (to look at comments) via 'my account/my art'. Weird!I don't know if these are of any help. 3 screen shots of what I am seeing. Looks okay to me. (Windows 10, Firefox, laptop). Top to bottom these should be biography/full profile, my gallery, and view all items (no crops).
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by Ian Gordon Craig
Posted
Ian's pics show what I'm seeing. If you don't like the title partially obscuring the thumbnails, you have the other two options. The 'one-size fits-all thumbnails' will obviously crop most images in some way...this is not a problem for me. I'm easily able to identify my pics, and if I'm looking at some else's work, they provide enough for me to decide which pics to open fully. So, I like the new gallery and its improved image quality.
From a programming point-of-view it's untidy. I'm not a programmer but I would have thought they could sort out the thumbnail cropping, and remove the titles where they are obscuring the images. And perhaps they will.
Posted
Michael - the thumbnails are part obscured, but if you click on the image you get a full view of it with nothing compromising it. Well, you said that in fact - but my point is that I don't think this is any sort of problem, unless perhaps you go in for extremely long titles: I think it's a good feature, allowing people to find the work of those who, e.g., have commented on theirs.
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by Robert Jones, NAPA
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Yes I appreciate this Robert but it means you have to click on every one to see them in full instead of having of having a full page of thumbnails where each picture can be seen in miniature. All okay if you know the title you arre looking for but a page of full view thumbnails is an ideal way of getting an overview of someones work - you can always click on them individually if one of them appeals but being in main obscured to have to click on them all individually would, for me at least (being a lazy git) be a bit of a deterrent.