Hi!
Is it possible, for example, when cropping vertical format photos, to set a center point?
See this example. Here it would be great, when its possible to set the center point to the middle of the upper half, where the red X is located.
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Although there is no option to set "center point" on a per-image basis, there is a feature Settings > Advanced > Image Resizer > Smart Crop.Dane wrote:Is it possible, for example, when cropping vertical format photos, to set a center point?
Alternatively, why not choose a layout like "justified" or "columns" that does not crop images?X3 Panel Help wrote:Smart crop
When enabled, images will crop to "interesting" areas of an image (for example faces). Smart crop is slightly slower than center-crop, because the resizer has to scan the image for areas of entropy (chaos) to calculate the crop focus area. However, it will not affect performance once images are cached. When disabled, images will be standard center-cropped.
* This setting only affects cropped images.
* Although results are usually better, smart crop may produce unexpected results in some images.
* This setting will not affect already-cached images.
I may have forgotten to mention that you would need to go to Tools > Cache > Image Cache, and delete the cache for this dir, else the new "smart crop" versions would not get created.Dane wrote:I activated Smart Crop, but like as you said, it doesent work on my example.
Yes. Columns and Justified will respect the original image aspect, but Columns will emphasize "vertical" images while Justified will emphasize "horizontal image.Dane wrote:But I noticed your hint and try columns and justified. I decided to use justified. The high format photos are a bit small in the preview, but I think it is ok.
No the photos are NOT centered, and that is the entire point of "smart crop". I thought I made that clear ... With "smart crop", instead it will shift the crop towards what is considered the "center of chaos" in the image. Speaking on behalf of the image in your screenshot, that is shifted left to include the cluster of stars on the right side of the image. In cases where there are humans (faces), smart crop will most often shift the focus towards the face, which is the most helpful functionality.Dane wrote:And when I set this, the photos are not in the middle as you see in the screenshot. Yes, thats the right image in the example.