General Support: Image proportions for portrait-formatted photos

May be a silly question - most of my photos are landscape (500 px wide x 240 px tall). I have the large thumbnails set to 500 width, so they look fine.

A few of my photos are portrait (240 px wide and 500 px tall). These look bad, because of course they're HUGE because Plogger is fitting them to a 500-wide container.

How can I show my vertically-oriented pictures at a reasonable size? I don't want the total size of the photo to be any bigger than the horizontally-oriented ones.

I've recently implemented this myself - the changes below will cause thumbnails (both small and large) to be generated with the largest dimension of the picture set to the size conifgured in the options view. This means that portrait images will (by default) have thumbs that are 100 and 500 pixels tall, whilst landscape images will have thumbs that are 100 and 500 pixels wide.

I haven't tested the changes with the square thumbnails option turned on, but believe they should work.

The only downside to these changes is that the layout of screens with small thumbnails gets broken - I fixed this by adding width and height entries into the 'tag' section of gallery.css.

Anyway, to achieve the effect, with release 2.1 beta, you need to change the code from line 63 of plog-functions.php to read as follows (modified or new lines are in green, lines to delete or comment out are in red):

    list($width, $height, $type, $attr) = @getimagesize($thumbpath);
    $max_dim = $width;
    if ($height > $max_dim) { $max_dim = $height; }

    if (!file_exists($thumbpath) ||
        ($thumb_config['filename_prefix'] == '' && !$config['square_thumbs'] && $thumb_config['size'] != $max_dim) ||
        ($thumb_config['filename_prefix'] == '' && !$config['square_thumbs'] && $width == $height) ||
        ($thumb_config['filename_prefix'] == '' && $config['square_thumbs'] && $width != $height) ||
        ($thumb_config['filename_prefix'] != '' && $thumb_config['size'] != $max_dim) ||
        ($thumb_config['filename_prefix'] == '' && $config['square_thumbs'] && $thumb_config['size'] != $height && $thumb_config['size'] != $width)) {

        $phpThumb = new phpThumb();

        // set data
        $phpThumb->setSourceFileName($source_file_name);
        // $phpThumb->w = $thumb_config['size'];
        $phpThumb->q = $config['compression'];

        // set zoom crop flag to get image squared off

        if ($thumb_config['filename_prefix'] == '' && $config['square_thumbs']) {
            $phpThumb->zc = 1;
            $phpThumb->h = $thumb_config['size'];
            $phpThumb->w = $thumb_config['size'];
        } else {
            list($w, $h, $t, $a) = @getimagesize($source_file_name);
            if ($w > $h) {
                $phpThumb->w = $thumb_config['size'];
            } else {
                $phpThumb->h = $thumb_config['size'];
            }
        }

        $phpThumb->config_use_exif_thumbnail_for_speed = false;


        // // Set image height instead of width if not using square thumbs
        // if (!$config['square_thumbs']) {
            // $phpThumb->h = $thumb_config['size'];
            // $phpThumb->w = '';
        // }