CreativePearl theme slider heavily cropping images

  • Hi, I have purchased and installed a theme called CreativePearl from ThemeForest.net. The theme is pretty good and is working the way I want it to with a few minor exceptions. Most of the issues I am having are pretty minor and won’t hold up the launch of the page, but there is one issue that is stopping me from going live and since I can’t seem to get a response from the theme author, I was hoping I might be able to get some help with the major issue here.

    Theme is installed at https://danpowerphotography.com.au/

    The problem is that the slider on the frontpage is heavily cropping images, removing important parts of the photographs. The documentation says to upload images at 1480x430px, but the slider displays 980x405px, cropping huge amounts of data from each side of the images.

    I have tried uploading images at 980x405px, but then they are stretched to 1480px wide and I lose data from the sides as well as top and bottom. I have also tried uploading 2:1 aspect ratio images (980x405px is roughly 2:1) but they are still displayed 1480px wide with cropping around all sides.

    Is it possible to modify the slider to fit my images correctly into the display space rather than cropping the edges?

    Thankyou!

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  • Thread Starter Dan_Power

    (@dan_power)

    A little more investigation seems to indicate that the slider in this theme is WooThemes’ FlexSlider, if that helps..

    Thread Starter Dan_Power

    (@dan_power)

    Hi another update, by changing the following CSS:

    .block_slider_home .flexslider .slides img {width:auto; height:405px; margin-left:-212px;}

    to

    .block_slider_home .flexslider .slides img {width:auto; max-width:980px;}

    I have managed to get the images to fit horizontally, however now the slider height is 283px instead of 405px, and the images are heavily cropped from the top and bottom…..

    If I leave ‘height:405px’ in the images are stretched vertically rather than displaying the whole image.

    I’m at about the limit of my expertise here… I’m a photographer, not a web designer…

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