Rad. I went ahead and took the plunge. If format conversion appears sometime in the future for the images that are already autocreated, that'd be extra incredible.

Thanks a bunch! I look forward to installing this.

I think this mod is exactly what I'm looking for but I do have one question. Will this allow me to have multiple detail images on my product pages? I sell guitars and usually use 4-6 detail shots for each one. I love the ideas of having thumbs that are clickable but I need to have 4-6 per item.

Thanks!

Yes it will. Also, there is a seperate template for the thumbs for the Detail Images so you can change the look of that easily if you like.

Sounds great! I just went on your site and paid via PayPal. How do I get the mod?

Thanks,
Joel

As with most mods here, none have instant delivery.

I just bought it, and had to wait about a day for mine. His speed was
pretty darn good, actually! Can't wait to install it. :D

(PS -Authors here can use the cheap software at dlguard.com to offer
secure instant delivery and automate the process with paypal)

Will this mod work with litecommerce?

This is a great mod. I'm really glad I bought it.

Has anyone figured out a way to get the detailed photos to load quicker from the thumbs? It seems to take 4-5 seconds for the detailed shots to load after clicking on the thumbs.

Nice mod (with great future potential, too!), but so far it (well, whatever library it's calling) turns the background of of my transparent gifs black. They work properly without the mod, so I've temporarily uninstalled its routines.

How can I get it to respect the transparent bit?

(and yes, I tried going PNG, as I wanted to, anyway, but Photoshop spits out horrible PNG files and great GIFs. I can't get it to look good like I can a GIF, and a search of the net and graphics forums revealed that Photoshop and many other otherwise top shelf image editors are dogs when it comes to spitting out PNG format :()

Hit reload in the popup window (click somewhere on the picture, then hit F5). Does it load again instantly?

It's probably the time it takes your browser to generate the popup, and not the script. It's kinda slow in my browsers, too.

I think you could use a completely javascript based routine to make it closer to instant, like they do in the mods that use zoomify.

I do not know. I do not do development work for Lite Commerce.

This should only happen the first time that you click on the thumb. The initial time that it takes the image to appear is due to a few factors. First, it is reducing the size of the image, then it is applying the unsharp mask. These two things combined with the current server load (assuming you are on a shared server) account for the load time initially.

However, once the image is created, it is stored in the cache directory and it should display almost immediately the second time that it is requested.

Please give me the link to the site where this "was" installed.

I can't seem to get this to work properly with the DSEFU mod installed. Both mods use some of the same templates. I end up with 3 thumbnail images on my product page and still have the detail photo in its original location below the product details.

Also, the included instructions weren't very clear about how to add the photos. I am using different folders for my detail images and my thumbnails, both inside the 'files' folder. Is this a problem? I have about 200 products entered. Am I going to have to modify them? If so, how?

I sent an email to Telefirma but figured I would post here in case anyone else has a similar problem, or knows the solution.

Sent you a PM. Thanks!

OK.. I fiddled around with my images and now it looks like what I need to do is remove my product detail images and then reload them through xcart as the thumbnail image. This gets rid of the thumbnail replication at least. Now I have another problem.. it looks like it is saving the image, but when I go to the product page there is no thumnail (just a text link that opens a popup with nothing in it). I think the problem is in the admin section where you specify the path to where the detail images and thumbnails are stored. How should this be set up?

I got this thing working, somewhat. If I enter a detail photo as a thumbnail, it seems to work ok, except...

I had to modify the thumb_popup.tpl as the height of the image was fixed at "480" and was cutting off the lower half of the detail photo so I just removed this and left the height not attributed.

When I add a 2nd detail photo (in the detailed images section) it shows up as a thumbnail on the products page and again full size right below it in the detail images box. The original detail photo/thumbnail is also replicated as a detail photo thumbnail (making it appear twice) whenever a 2nd detail photo is added

The full size (1st) detail photo shows up instead of a thumbnail in the shopping cart pushing everything else off the page to the right.

Great mod!
 

I'm just adding my praises. I installed this mod in a site that I did for an out-of-control customer, who uploads images of completely illogical sizes no matter what I say. Often the main thumbnail was pushing the text to the right into a thin vertical box that was almost unreadable. Her detailed images were sometimes enormous, but sometimes a normal size; it was impossible to get a decent layout with the inconsistent image sizes, not to mention that some of the pages took an age to download because of too many large images. With this mod, no matter what she does there is some control! It's great.

Telafirma was also very quick to respond when I had a problem installing the mod (I didn't have GD enabled in PHP), even though it was holiday time.

"Telafirma was also very quick to respond when I had a problem installing the mod"

I wish I could say the same, but I haven't heard a word.

I had to make some modifications to the cart in order to not show a full size detail image there and still can only have one image per product.

Duplicate detailed images
 

Did you comment out the detailed images code in product.tpl? This will stop the image from showing up as a duplicate. Here's what you should comment out:

Amazing mod, never seen anything like! Stephen installed it for me on my site...

Saves so much time to put each image in photoshop to resize and clarify the image.

Re: Duplicate detailed images
 

I have added this to the instructions now. I now realize that I should have included this to begin with.

Any progress on honoring the transparent bit in GIFs?

Hi,
I'm just intalling this mod now, but i seem to be missing a file!

I've already emailed TelaFirma, but as it's probably the middle of the night over there i thought i'd check if anyone on the board can help me. (it's great living on the other side of the world!)

The file: /skin1/main/product_details.tpl seems to be missing from my directory. I've checked everywhere but can't see it.
Does anyone have any tips?

Thanks in advance!
Flo.

missing file
 

Your signature says you are using 3.5. The mod is for 4.0.X; maybe that is the problem.

Hi,

Yes, i considered that... was hoping it wouldn't be a problem.
O well, we'll see :)

The file that you would be looking for in V3.5.x would be /skin1/main/product_modify.tpl . This is the file in the Admin area where you Add/Modify the products and where the thumbnail image is displayed. The purpose of changing this template is so that in the Admin area, you are not displaying a huge image when modifying the product.

The line of code you are looking for is on or around line 35:

You can change this to:

Again, I would like to repeat that I do not know if this will work on Version 3.5.x - I have not tested it on any version other than version 4.0.x

Haven't forgotten about this and I am still looking into this. It should be preserving the Alpha chanel information but there is possibly a conflict when converting to true-color with Alpha if you are using a different transparent bit besides 255,255,255 or 0,0,0 .

Thank you...

Yes.

Oh, man, I don't know. It's whatever Photoshop's "Save for Web" defaults to.

The transparent bit is pure white, if that's what you mean. I'm not using a "blue screen" or anything. :)

Do I have to upload different images for product page and detail image, if I upload only one image as product detail image will it work in product list page and product page.

Hi TelaFirma,

Did you get the last 3 emails I sent you? I would appreciate it if you can response and let me know either you can assist....or not.

Thanks
-Tuan

I've just had this mod installed on my site, and i have to say
WOW!!

I thoroughly recommend this mod to all Xcart users, it really improves the look of your cart, and is very reasonably priced.

TelaFirma has been a great help, and managed to get it all working perfectly on my 3.5.x site.

Flo.
www.sublimebikinis.com

Telafirma,

Still love your mod. But is there any chance you can get your mod to work with the mod by ianwebster below that changes the thumbnail image when you select a variant? I tried but cannot get them to coexist.

http://forum.x-cart.com/viewtopic.php?t=19259

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
T.J.

Some questions for Tela Firma,

What if the detailed image is different from the thumb of the same product? Can the mod accommodate this or must they be from the same master image?

Is the detailed image a true pop-up, with magnifying glass in corner and close window button? Can you add more than one pop-up (detailed) image?

Can ALT tags be applied to all images?

Thank you for your time.


www.toroleather.com

Black background where used to be transparent
 

I too am suffering from the black background issue. What is the solution?

Firstly, great mod and secondly, just wanted to say, TelaFirma really went the extra mile in troubleshooting our implementation to get everything working smoothly.

Thanks.


v4.0.13

Hi i have a number of questions regarding this mod, and would appreciate if someone could help

On my site right now i have it so that the detailed image is showing on the product details page. And the product thumb is the image that i upload in the "product details" section in admin. Another ward i upload 2 images one for the thumb and one for the large image that is showing on the product details page and i dont have x-cart do any resizing on either.

But i now want it so that when they click the larege pic in the product details page it opens an even larger image of the product with a popup.

My question is with this mod do i have to tell it exavr dimensions? Anotherwards can i make it so that for the thumbs its always a certain width and that when it resizes it will keep the propotions. Also for the large popoup can i make the window size depend on the size of the image, with no resizing happening to the extra large image.

How does this mod work in regard to optimizing for the web? ie. when i optimize the very large popup pic, then when it resizes the smaller pics does the resized pics shrink considerably in size on the pages that they are on, and does it do optimizing on them as if i would have made them in photoshop?

+1. Stephen at TelaFirma made sure he got the mod exactlly as I needed it to be. Great product and great support.

Worth every dime. Thanks a lot.