Site Update » Client Side Image Cropping · 7:07pm May 19th, 2015
Spent the last day working on this. Avatars, group images and banners now support client side cropping when you upload images. You can move the view finder by click and dragging, resize by grabbing the anchors (hold shift to scale in all directions) and double click to fill the maximum area possible.
This will be coming soon for story images but it requires some additional work and wanted to test it in the open for avatars/group images as they're not so important is something does in fact go wrong.
This should mean a lot less OC images where they're only in the bottom right, as well as an easer time for everyone really.
Let me know if there's issues (there might be).
Edit
This is now done for story images too. Story images now have a forced aspect ratio. This makes it a ton easier for me to layout pages and also makes sure you guys get all the pixels you should have been using all this time :V
The aspect ratio is 2:3 and the ideal upload size is 1024 x 1536 as that's the max size we store.
Thanks for the added flexibility Knighty.
Soon clopfic writers will have an even easier time using cropped porn for story covers.
Damn, that is useful. Solid update, Knighty.
Finally. Thanks Kniggles.
Can you add censor bars too? Would help with all those excessive cleavage problems.
3080876 Yes
Be easier to see full screen porn images and where they link from if it's implemented right. Like only seeing full screen cropped if you have MATURE disabled or the full image if you have MATURE enabled.
Very nice update. Thanks, ya big fat spaghettio.
If I didn't reference this first, someone else would:
fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2014/232/4/8/oh__crop____by_redapropos-d7vzxkz.png
This is (one of the) best things!
This is good
Thank you, our most based overlord Knighty!
Lewd.
Lovin' it!
~TOOWC
Can this eventually mean uniform story cover sizes some time in the future? Please?
3080989 Have a guess what this was partially built for :V
Huzzah!
This is a wonderful idea and update! Thank you, O Mighty Admin of ours!
Maybe now I can get my avatar to look just exactly the way that I want it to look!
And that goes for my story cover pictures, too, when I get around to posting the darned things (as well as my story-chapters) here, too!
3080989 Oh, I sure hope so!
3080991 Whoops! Forgot that you said that already, Knighty! My apologies!!!
I don't remember being able to put images in the OC character box
3080864 This.
Okay, that's kind of cool. The cropping even works for me from the mobile site. Thanks, knighty!
But I like my badly cropped image so much that I've kept it this way since 2011!
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Nice find. forgot about that one.
Looking good.
Are there any hopes of getting gravatar support [1] at any point?
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I believe he's referring to avatars. For all those people who are too lazy to crop it themselves.
[1] Avatars from gravatar can be displayed using a url produced with the hash of a user's email address. Their servers can also resize it as requested, serve different ones based on maturity ratings, and serve a specific default in case of error or the user doesn't have one set.
--Sollace
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Oh.
I wouldn't know since I crop mine on my iPhone
3080989 Aaaaand done
Thanks, Knighty.
Many thx Knightly!
Time to consider updating my image...
Dude, you are awesome for doing this. You made my life so much easier, so I thank you for that.
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This is awesome, before I used to have to go into paint.net to crop my avatar, now I can just do it without added software!
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Awesome!
…crud, now I have to figure out a new cover format
That's ... fuckin' cool man.
Righteous.
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Well, that's the end of having wide cover art for me, if I understand this correctly. I'll just have to either cram pony scenes into a more narrow space and make them tiny with lots of negative space above and below, or start formatting all my covers like movie posters.
Yay?
I'm really torn about this. I like the idea of standardized cover size ratios, in some ways. It makes the site look cleaner. But now everybody has to have the same style of cover art. Obviously, yeah, but seriously, it will all be the same. No more square covers, no more wide covers, only tall covers. No variety beyond what's already been uploaded, and what's already here will negate the clean look of the site unless a lot of covers are updated to fit the new standard. There are a lot of "classic" ponyfics around here that don't have tall covers. Just sayin'.
I dunno. Maybe I'm not understanding this update, though it looks to be this way from the story editing page. I guess I'll just start making poster-style covers. I've thought about it before, anyway.
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So… 16:10 portrait, eh? Having tried my hand at laying out the story cards myself, I get it, but I'm really curious to know what percentage of existing covers are even close to that. I am so glad that's not going to be my problem.
3081604 A small portion unfortunately... we debated a lot over what to do with current ones. Just gonna have to make do with them being wrong and fix them up on any displays where I want to use portrait. Also I'm probably going to make a last minute change to 2:3. Seems to be pretty common in professional publishing. Ours is ever so slightly different.
Thanks for another update Knighty =D
I might have to get new covers to try out this fancy smancy feature at some point.
I'll ask a stupid question now; what are the rules regarding NSFW images cropped via the site's cropping tool?
3081760 No different to existing rules. After it's cropped, nothing else remains.
3081791 Just wanted to make sure. Thank you very much.
So it begins.
Huh, didn't know that Berry pic was based off Ode to the Bouncer. Fun.
New connections everyday. Also, woo, visual consistency.
Sad to say I don't believe I'll be able to take advantage of this great new feature, at least for my current lone piece of cover art. It's a wide cover piece, and the bits that would be lost by cropping it are simply too important to cut out. Ah well, too bad.
What about wide coverarts, man?
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I was going to say this earlier, but I was cut off by 502s. Not sure I like this move to standardised cover art. I really hope this is not something that's going to e shoved down our throats for the sake of consistent site design.
Some of us like to have different sized cover art, like having them wider than they are tall. In some cases I'd say that actually looks better than tall ones. It seems a little unfair to force everyone into the same 6:10 box.
Edit: After looking at it, it seems to be exactly what I feared. One size for everyone, and no option not to crop it.
0/10 No support.
--Sollace
Ummm... Can I ask how this is meant to help when anyone with even basic editing skills should be able to crop an image before trying to upload it?
Most of my images are landscape, so is this saying I'm going to have to lose half of my pictures now, or at least be unable to post landscape images in the future?
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Existing one seems to be staying as they are, for now. But you can't upload anything of another size because it will always crop to 2:3.
--Sollace
I personally don't like the forced ratios for cover art. It doesn't seem to give much more benefit than maximum sizes. Although, I've never done this sort of Web design before, so I wouldn't know for sure. But it still is annoying, and it will probably encourage people to just put white space in their cover art now, and make it look worse than before.
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Consistent size is more valuable than you think. It was something I regretted very early on with fimfic so if it had never been an option to upload wide pictures you wouldn't miss it. I'm sure you can manage to make portrait art for your stories.