[lera4285]

Thanks for your input.

We are ready to start uploading X-Cart Dynamic Image Generator 4.1 but would like any input as to our concerns below.

Recommendations
Use the largest image size that you can get (within reason) for your product thumbnails and for the detail images. Using master images that are 1000px wide or 800px wide gives the best output. It may take a few seconds to generate the new image the first time, but once the image is requested the first time, you then have the new image in the cache and it will not need to be generated again. The product page will take the longest time to generate images the first time (depending on the number of detailed images being used). A good rule of thumb is to have images that are at least as wide as what you have the popup image set as.

Take the time (if you can) to make sure all your master images are the same dimensions. This means that if you are using 600x800 images, try to make them all that - or at least some derivation of...(600x800, 500x667, 800x1067...). This will help make sure that all your images have the same proportions no matter what size they are or where they are used. Sometimes I just add white space to the images to make them all the same proportions. This will give your site a tighter look.


My concerns are:
We have already uploaded over 800 images and we use X-Magnifier for the large images.
All of our X-Magnifier images are 350 width with varying lengths. (we can't change this, it is done.)

If we use the above recommendations we would probably need to increase our future master images width to probably 500 pxls. I would not like to resize any larger. We would use a 500x600 pop up

Our category images (thumbs-category page) are now 128x187, so we would have to resize all of our future master images to 500x730 in order to keep a standard look and
size on the category pages. Am I misunderstanding or am I correct?

What will happen to our X-Magnifier images that are already uploaded?