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I’m fairly new to EE and was exploring the Photo Gallery Module.  The project I’m working on needs the following: gallery images that are different sizes (easy enough) and thumbnails that are exactly the same size (without distortion or whitespace).  So I guess what I need is a way to not only resize thumbnails but also crop to a specific dimension.  Eg Image1 is 875px x 525px tall and the thumbnail needs to be exactly 25px x 25px.  Image2 is 200px x 500px and the thumbnail needs to be exactly 25px x 25px as well.  Is this possible?

Ideally what I’d like to do is have ultimate control over my thumbnail (cropping and sizing) wherein I can determine the size and crop area for each thumbnail. Is this possible as well?

Cliff,

Did you ever find a solution to this? I’m trying to figure out the same thing.

Thanks!

I did (kinda), unfortunately the Photo Gallery module has no way to do this natively. You can either crop or resize but not both. 

I ended up using Php thumb.  However php thumb is a bit of a processor hog so I wouldn’t recommend you use it on large amounts of images.

Thanks for the response. I too ended up using phpThumb. It seems to be working well for the amount of images my client is using. The rendering is pretty fast. phpThumb has a lot of power and options built into it. It’d be great if the next version of EE had it’s own little processing engine similar to this built into it. I posted a request in the request thread. We’ll see!