Carousel: flashing image transition not well received

  • Hello!

    I don’t know when exactly the image transition effect in the Carousel module has been changed, but the “flashing” mode isn’t getting me any positive feedback.

    I’m using a white background for Carousel because it fits the sites that I’m running, and people are complaining that the instant transtition to bright white and then fading down to the photo’s actual colors is hurting their eyes, because it feels like a flash bulb going off.

    Personally, I don’t have that problem, but I can see that it may be annoying to some, especially when browsing through larger albums with 20 or more photos.

    Would it be possible to make this configurable, and have a simple “sliding” transition between frames without the obtrusive flashing effect?

    Thanks
    Alexander

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/jetpack/

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  • Plugin Author Jeremy Herve

    (@jeherve)

    Jetpack Mechanic ??

    Jetpack doesn’t really add any transition effect when you move from one image to another. The only thing that changes is the opacity of the images, to make the main image disappear and the images on the sides appear faded.

    The “flashing” effect you mentioned happens because the main image disappears, leaving only a white background until the next image appears.

    If you would like to change this behaviour, you could force the images not to disappear by adding the following CSS to your theme stylesheet or to your custom CSS editor under Appearance > Edit CSS in your dashboard:

    .jp-carousel-transitions .jp-carousel-slide {
	-webkit-transition-property: none !important;
	transition-property: none !important;
	transition: none !important;
	-webkit-transition: none !important;
}

.jp-carousel-wrap .jp-carousel-slide {
	opacity: 1 !important;
}

    I’m not sure that looks very good, though, and you will still have a white space until the next image loads.

    Thread Starter Alexander S. Kunz

    (@antermoia)

    Hello Jeremy,

    and thanks for the quick reply. I’m a bit late to respond because of Thanksgiving, and all that. ??

    I will try these custom CSS additions and see how I like it.

    One question though – has it always been like that? I was under the impression that originally, the transition effect in Carousel was actually “sliding” images from one side to the other, without opacity “flashing” effects.

    Thanks again
    Alexander.

    Plugin Author Jeremy Herve

    (@jeherve)

    Jetpack Mechanic ??

    has it always been like that?

    Yes, it was always like that, we haven’t made any changes to the transition effects.

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