Suppliers catalogues photo URL

[Trevor Ellis]

Re. GA004S20 > add/get a plant >photo URL.

After putting in a URL for a photograph location, the image that appears is invariably blurred yet the thumbnail on the actual site looks to be perfectly in focus. I've tried various sites and images but the result is always an out of focus image. Anyone else experienced this or knows why this should be?

[ideasguy]

So others can follow heres the steps to reach GA004S20
Start GA004
Click Supplier Catalogs
GA004S20 appears
(Add a New supplier if you don't have one already)
Click Add/get a plant button
Screen GA100S00 appears
Navigate and find a plant in My database
Click Select
Screen GA004S21 appears.
That screen has two fields to accept URL's
One for the Supplier website
Once for the URL where the image of the plant is shown

I'm not getting the blurred web age you are reporting, Trevor.
Can you post a URL that you are using here and I'll try with that?

[Trevor Ellis]

I'm not getting the blurred web age you are reporting, Trevor.
Can you post a URL that you are using here and I'll try with that?

Hi George,

here's one that I tried. The photo URL (http://www.plantpref.co.uk/assets/images/TricyrmacropodaWEB.jpg.)
The catalogue page (http://www.plantsforshade.co.uk/acatalog/Tricyrtis.html) was fine, it was the images of the plants using the photo URL that were problematic. They were quite blurred. I tried with different pages and also with a different supplier but with the same result.

Regards,

Trevor

[ideasguy]

Lets look at this page:
http://www.plantsforshade.co.uk/acatalog/Tricyrtis.html
There are small thumbnails of the plants.

Lets consider:
Tricyrtis formosana 'Empress'

RIGHT clicking on the image on that page and looking at properties gives this URL:
http://www.plantsforshade.co.uk/acatalog/Tricyrtis-Empress.jpg
Thats the URL of that small thumbnail

Now click on the image. This page shows up:
http://www.plantsforshade.co.uk/acatalog/info_1159.html
There is a BIGGER image of the plant on that page.Right clicking, then Properties on the image gives this URL:
http://www.plantsforshade.co.uk/acatalog/Tric-empresslarge.jpg
Using that in IG Pro should give a good result.

Does that help Trevor?

Another little point.
IG Pro doesn't do anything to change the image in an URL. It shows the image in a browser, as normal.
When you extract a thumbnail image it may look different when shown on a white page compared to the web page where you extracted the URL for the image. However, its exactly the same.

[NightHawk]

Just to throw my test into the mix, I have visited several different web sites and each time the larger photos displayed through IG Pro on all of the web sites were sharp.

I didn't encounter any blurred images.

As an example, here is one that I tested -
Catalogue Page - http://www.christiealpines.co.uk/index.php?page=orchids
Photo URL - http://www.christiealpines.co.uk/showbigimage.php?image_id=pageimages/2006Mar091141929399Cypulla.jpg.jpg

Take a look at these links Trevor and let us know your findings.

Laurie.

P.S. to Trevor - if you reply to someone's posting and you want to use a quote they have made, here's the best way to do it.
With the message displayed that you are replying to, you will see a QUOTE button to the right of the message header.  Once the quoted text has appeared in your message, cut out any text that's not relevant.
You will then get a time and date of the quoted text plus who made it.    Then just add your own comments underneath.
When you Preview your message before posting, you will see the 'Quoted' text highlighted with a pale purple background for clarity.  This will then display the same once you post the message.

Some members when 'quoting' will cut out the time and date and the poster's name, and just leave the word QUOTE.  This is just a personal choice though.

[ideasguy]

RE:

if you reply to someone's posting and you want to use a quote they have made, here's the best way to do it.

Thats a good set of instructions Laurie 

[Trevor Ellis]

Just to throw my test into the mix, I have visited several different web sites and each time the larger photos displayed through IG Pro on all of the web sites were sharp.

Hi Laurie,

thanks for the info re. replies/quotes etc. I've sorted the 'blurred images' problem (see reply to George). Am getting there!

Best regards,
Trevor

[Trevor Ellis]

Does that help Trevor?

Hi George,
it seems that my mistake was in right clicking the thumbnail/s, then clicking  'save image location' and pasting that URL into the 'photo URL' box in 004S21. Hence the blurred, enlarged image.

Thanks for the solution!

Regards,

Trevor

[Trevor Ellis]

Hmm,

it seems that I'm still doing something wrong with the quotes thing - I'll have a play!

Trevor

[Trevor Ellis]

Just to throw my test into the mix.

"Thinks" ----  Maybe this will work. Ah, yes - mustn't cut out the bottom quote. Got it.

Thanks all,

Trevor

[ideasguy]

Yip, looks good
Its a very useful tool!

[NightHawk]

Great work Trevor.

Once you've had a good play about, it all falls into place eventually, and then becomes second nature. 

Laurie.

[Trevor Ellis]

Re. GA004S20 > add/get a plant >photo URL.

After putting in a URL for a photograph location, the image that appears is invariably blurred.

Sorry guys but I misled by initially giving an address for Plantsman's Preference page (http://www.plantpref.co.uk/assets/images/TricomacropodaWEB.jpg) and the second URL I gave was for Plants for Shade - which is a totally different firm and that works fine given the help of George and Laurie. Slip of the cursor I guess so apologies for that. I still can't get the Plantsman's Preference site to give a clear image. If anyone has the time to try Tricyrtis on their site (under perennials tab) and see what happens I'd be grateful if only to prove that I'm not cracking up!

Sorry for the misdirection

Trevor

[NightHawk]

I don't think you're cracking up Trevor, as my findings will indicate.

I visited The Plantsman's Preference web site - http://www.plantpref.co.uk/html/t_to_z.html and navigated through Perennials to Tricyrtis as you suggested.

I first looked at all the thumbnail images on the actual web site and in my opinion they appear blurred on my monitor.

None of these thumbnails have links to larger versions so I couldn't test that aspect.

Looking at this URL in IG Pro gave the expected results - the thumbnails still appear blurred, but not as a result of IG Pro displaying them incorrectly.

Therefore, I would say that the original images on the web site in question are not as sharp as they should be, and this is the problem.

I hope I have interpreted your instructions correctly here, and has answered your query.  If not just post again and we'll re-evaluate.

Laurie.

[Trevor Ellis]

I don't think you're cracking up Trevor, as my findings will indicate.

Exactly as I thought Laurie. Phew!

Thanks for confirmation.

Best wishes

Trevor

[ideasguy]

Good work Laurie!