Bulk Zoom Thumbnails to Ratio script available for Firefox

mattwright · September 16, 2007

I desire most of my galleries to have thumbnails with a 1:1 ratio, but did not want to go through and manually zoom each thumbnail. I wrote a Greasemonkey script that will zoom the thumbnails for all photos in a gallery to the specified ratio (or back to their original ratio).

You can find it at http://www.scriptarchive.com/gm_smugmug.html

I have tested it on several of my galleries, but it is still very new, so if you have any problems with it, please let me know.

Matt

Rockporters · September 17, 2007

Works great! Tried it out using the Mac version of Firefox (1.0.0.6).

I know it's a problem with multiple pages, but I wish these types of utilities could work with the smugmug layout, it would eliminate all the switching settings back and forth.

saurora · September 17, 2007

Hi Matt! Thanks for doing this .... I used it on one gallery this morning and it worked great!

mattwright · September 17, 2007

Re: smugmug layout

Rockporters wrote:

I know it's a problem with multiple pages, but I wish these types of utilities could work with the smugmug layout, it would eliminate all the switching settings back and forth.

FYI, the reason I disabled it for the smugmug layout is that the list of images embedded in the JavaScript source for that page contains images that aren't actually viewable, so it wouldn't be obvious which images you were zooming necessarily.

Nimai · September 18, 2007

Haha- I guess I [thread=64198]posted mine[/thread] in the wrong section! Coulda saved you some tinkering, although that's the fun part!

mattwright · September 18, 2007

Re: additional code

Nimai wrote:

Haha- I guess I [thread=64198]posted mine[/thread] in the wrong section! Coulda saved you some tinkering, although that's the fun part!

Nice! Correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears that your code still requires one to navigate to each individual image page? The tool I wrote allows you to change an entire gallery with one click, although you will have to let it run in the browser for a little bit while it does its work.

Matt

Nimai · September 19, 2007

mattwright wrote:

Nice! Correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears that your code still requires one to navigate to each individual image page? The tool I wrote allows you to change an entire gallery with one click, although you will have to let it run in the browser for a little bit while it does its work.

Matt

I only used mine with the Thumbnail view, and then I adjust each squares position and maybe size as needed. Sounds like yours is a bit different! I'll have to check it out!

brandofamily · September 24, 2007

I'm trying a gallery w/ 9 pics.... seems to be taking forever...

mattwright · September 27, 2007

brandofamily wrote:

I'm trying a gallery w/ 9 pics.... seems to be taking forever...

It normally takes a few seconds per photo, but this still beats having to navigate to each page manually and crop the photo. Sometimes if smugmug's servers are slow, it can take longer. Is it going a lot slower than that for you?

brandofamily · September 27, 2007

mattwright wrote:

It normally takes a few seconds per photo, but this still beats having to navigate to each page manually and crop the photo. Sometimes if smugmug's servers are slow, it can take longer. Is it going a lot slower than that for you?

9 pics... ran for over an hour... never worked...

maiken · September 30, 2007

Real stupid question and I probably shouldn't be messing with this with my limited knowledge of code, but I like the idea of this add-on.

I went to the Firefox site and downloaded the Greasemonkey extension, but I can't figure out how to install it. I get this error message:

"Windows cannot open this file: To open this file, Windows needs to know what program created it" and asks to luse the web service to find the appropriate program.

What am I doing wrong?

Allen · September 30, 2007

maiken wrote:

Real stupid question and I probably shouldn't be messing with this with my limited knowledge of code, but I like the idea of this add-on.

I went to the Firefox site and downloaded the Greasemonkey extension, but I can't figure out how to install it. I get this error message:

"Windows cannot open this file: To open this file, Windows needs to know what program created it" and asks to luse the web service to find the appropriate program.

What am I doing wrong?

If it's like any other extension you click "install now", restart Firfox and look for it
under the tools menu at the top.

maiken · September 30, 2007

I downloaded it and clicked on the downloaded file and it gave me the error.

No install now botton.

Allen · September 30, 2007

maiken wrote:

I downloaded it and clicked on the downloaded file and it gave me the error.

No install now botton.

Did you go to this page and click install now?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748

maiken · September 30, 2007

Allen wrote:

Did you go to this page and click install now?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748

Yes, and it pops up a new window saying file type unknown. I also downloaded and clicked on downloaded file and I get the same message.

Who knows??

mattwright · September 30, 2007

maiken wrote:

Yes, and it pops up a new window saying file type unknown. I also downloaded and clicked on downloaded file and I get the same message.

Just want to double check -- you are sure you are using the Firefox web browser (not Internet Explorer) and version 1.5 or above? You can go to the "Help" menu in Firefox and then "About" to determine which version you are using.

Then you should just be able to click the Install Now button and an install dialog would popup, as a previous poster mentioned. I don't see why a recent version of Firefox would be giving you a file type unknown error.

Matt

maiken · September 30, 2007

Your right. I was using IE to install. It was late and I had been working on the site all night so I didn't realize it.

Sorry, but thanks for helping.

maiken · September 30, 2007

This program is BRILLIANT!!!!!

What a time saver and it works so fast. I started a 400 image gallery about 10 minutes ago and it's already 1/4 of the way through.

Thanks for doing this...

brandofamily · September 30, 2007

Hey Matt, the squares turned yellow, but never green... I refreshed the page a few hours later... the zooms were done! The only issue I have is that the zoom is always centered in the pic... but that works for most images...

mattwright · October 1, 2007

Re: squares turning yellow + centered zooms

brandofamily wrote:

Hey Matt, the squares turned yellow, but never green... I refreshed the page a few hours later... the zooms were done! The only issue I have is that the zoom is always centered in the pic... but that works for most images...

Although it does center the thumbnail, as you say, that works for most images and then you can go in and manually zoom the thumbnail for those where a different crop works best. I wanted a way to quickly zoom all images to 1:1 for new galleries I added and then manually zoom those specific images where it was needed.

Glad it did eventually work even though it didn't appear to!

It is possible that the callback for when the zoom is completed failed on the pages being returned by smugmug to the script (the script looks for a specific string: "/cart/batchadd.mg?ImageID=##")

As a general rule, once a box has turned yellow, the request for zooming that thumbnail has been sent to smugmug and should be completed several seconds later. If you see all boxes turn yellow, I guess there is some completion detection failure, but most likely the zooms have all been processed.

Matt

jchin · November 26, 2007

Works great!

Personally I find this greasemonkey script works better than the "bulk zoom thumbnail" hack that can be found on this tread:
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=26959

Thanks. Now if only SmugMug would incorporate something like this into their uploader procedure.

jchin · December 19, 2007

Can someone tell me if the code can be modified so that vertical photos when 1x1 bulk zoomed, can be set so that it is say more to the top of the photo?

I really hate it when I have vertical photos and everyone's heads get cut-off in the zoomed thumbanil, which then means manually changing each photo.

Thanks.

mattwright · December 20, 2007

A possible modification

jchin wrote:

Can someone tell me if the code can be modified so that vertical photos when 1x1 bulk zoomed, can be set so that it is say more to the top of the photo?

Hi jchin,

Currently it doesn't do that, but it could be modified to do so. I haven't tested this modification, but feel free to try it out yourself. In the function unsafeWindow.processImageDetails you will see a line that looks like:

yOffset = parseInt((imgHeight - newHeight) / 2);

Change this to:

yOffset = 0;

The original line is setting the starting vertical offset of the new crop area to be 1/2 of what is being removed from the image (therefore centering it), but the change will simply keep the crop at the top of the image.

Matt

jchin · December 20, 2007

mattwright wrote:

Hi jchin,

Currently it doesn't do that, but it could be modified to do so. I haven't tested this modification, but feel free to try it out yourself. In the function unsafeWindow.processImageDetails you will see a line that looks like:

yOffset = parseInt((imgHeight - newHeight) / 2);

Change this to:

yOffset = 0;

The original line is setting the starting vertical offset of the new crop area to be 1/2 of what is being removed from the image (therefore centering it), but the change will simply keep the crop at the top of the image.

Matt

Thanks Matt. I'll give that a try.
Does this affect the horizontal photos?

mattwright · December 20, 2007

jchin wrote:

Thanks Matt. I'll give that a try.
Does this affect the horizontal photos?

Not as long as you are resizing to a ratio of 1:1... You will see that the section of code I told you to modify is enclosed in this if statement:

if (imgWidth / ratio_w < imgHeight / ratio_h) {

which basically will only effect images where the width is less than the height.

Matt

jchin · December 20, 2007

Matt,

Thanks a very large bunch!

Instead of using:
yOffset = 0;

I used, instead:
yOffset = parseInt((imgHeight - newHeight) / 4);

And on my test gallery, it worked wonderfully.
Thanks a bunch!

Merry Christmas!

- Johnny

lynnesite · December 28, 2007

Hey there Matt,
Using FF 2.0.0.11, greasemonkey installed and enabled. Your script installed. I can right click, and select it. But it never does anything.

I even made it private, turned originals on and protection off. Same thing.

Any ideas? ETA: I did turn popups on first and set to all thumbs.

mile · December 31, 2007

User script Command disabled
HI Matt,

I installed your script but I can't get the 'User script Command' enabled
so have no chance to run it.

Greasemonkey and 'Smugmug: Bulk Zoom...' are enabled.
Gallery style in smugmug: all thumbs

Any ideas?

Thanks a lot!

Michael

FF 2.0.0.11
greasemonkey-0.7.20070607.0-fx.xpi
WIN XP

jchin · January 8, 2008

mile wrote:

HI Matt,

I installed your script but I can't get the 'User script Command' enabled
so have no chance to run it.

Greasemonkey and 'Smugmug: Bulk Zoom...' are enabled.
Gallery style in smugmug: all thumbs

Any ideas?

Thanks a lot!

Michael

FF 2.0.0.11
greasemonkey-0.7.20070607.0-fx.xpi
WIN XP

Did you try restarting Firefox?

mile · January 10, 2008

jchin wrote:

Did you try restarting Firefox?

Yes, didn't help. I checked the error console of FF and found an error in addon js for greasmonkey 0.7.2. So I uninstalled it and installed previous version 0.6.9. Now everything is fine

.
Thanks,

Michael

jasonscottphoto · January 28, 2008

worked before but not now
I was successfully using this greasemonkey script for quite a while but when I tried yesterday it just sits there with a grid of grey boxes and nothing changes color.

I updated my Mac OS to Leopard recently, and I don't know if FF has been updated... those are the only things I can think of that would be different but why would that effect something that works from within the browser?

Any thoughts?

Bulk Zoom Thumbnails to Ratio script available for Firefox

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