The Images I Upload appear in very bad quality on the store

Hi,
Whenever I upload a image for my product it appears in really bad resolution on the store.
I always make sure the image I am uploading is of high resolution, but it still all the image on my site are of very poor quality.

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I am running opencart 1.5.5.1

I just had a look at your store.

OpenCart has a built in image caching system, which re-sizes images and caches them to improve speed.
In your front page the image has been re-sized to 80px x 80px. The problem is your stylesheet is then re-sizing it to 140px x 140px. So if you have a small image and try make it larger, the image distorts.

The solution:
1) Firstly, open catalog/view/theme/megastore/stylesheet/stylesheet.css and go to line line 304 or search for something like: 2) A few lines beneath that you will see a height property and width property. Remove them both.

Now when you load your page you will see that images are cleared, but quite small.

If you want to make them a little bigger then follow these steps:
1) Log into the admin panel and navigate to Extensions > Modules
2) Click edit on the module you want to edit
3) You will see a height and width option on each instance of that module. Change that to whatever you like. I recommend 140px

You may also find images are still small in other parts of the website, if so:
1) Log into the admin panel and navigate to System > Settings.
2) Edit your store (usually the default store)
3) Navigate to the "Image" tab.
4) There you will see various image settings.

I hope this helps. If you have any more problems please let me know!

Peter

See also image preparations beforehand at http://forum.opencart.com/viewtopic.php ... 2&p=426624

[and http://forum.opencart.com/viewtopic.php ... 27#p427702 ]