CGT specific cover image template (for beginners)

Discussion started by RealtimeModels

there is a specific issue with cover thumbnails on CGT, they are cutted on the lower edge hence displayed xx pixels down. Therefore a bit tricky to get something perfectly in full frame for the cover only. A template for some beginners by CGT would be helpful. I have figured it out but first after a year.

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Posted about 1 year ago
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There's no perfect format for thumbnail images, because cgtrader uses different aspect ratio for thumbnails in different places. I found that for me 4:3 works best for thumbnails and 16:9 for the rest of preview images. At the moment i'm rendering title images at 1600 x 1200 and regular images at 1920 x 1080 Doing that way almost no cropping is happening.

RealtimeModels wrote
RealtimeModels
"because cgtrader uses different aspect ratio for thumbnails in different places." How´s that? I didn´t noticed that, have tested it on 2 laptops and 2 workstations with different resolutions. However, a cropped asset in thumbail doesn´t look very inviting. If you have a city, or a scene to sell, then of course it is even better to crop it, showing just a frame of it with a zoom camera. But it does not make any sense for me to crop a "chair" model i.e. that you want to sell, and that´s not most professional too btw.
RealtimeModels wrote
RealtimeModels
Also, btw. there problem occurs mostly when combining some seperated renderings for a collection. I have created a working template for me, but noticed that only the botto part is cropped, resulting that i.e. a 4 x 3 liners with items is cropped in the lowest line. So I move all items higher in order to have all items displayed "uncutted". I don´t use these "CGT´s AI generated" thumbnails for collections.
LemonadeCG wrote
LemonadeCG
I've checked thumbnails aspect ratio and it looks they have fixed it - now it's about the same everywhere. Few years ago it was something like 1.33 in one place, 1.5 in some other place. Not sure about collections though, i tend to use my own generated images for them and discard auto generated ones, but they have tendency to come back after while.
Posted over 1 year ago
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Well It is good suggestion but I have never been worried about that, but yes very few of my assets got cropped because of thumbnails,
All of my renders with Full HD (1920 X 1080). All are looking good in Thumbnail except very few.

RealtimeModels wrote
RealtimeModels
That´s because you are not a beginner and know how to frame. I suggested it for CGT beginners only, it just would be a nice move from CGT, for me personally it is useless in meanwhile, my urgent need for that was some time ago and I helped me on my own. If you worked already as t-shirt artist you probably know the marketplaces there supply the artistst with tons of templates and widgets, don´t know where the problem is for CGT to offer a quick layout pdf with the right aspect ratio, dimensions, safe zone and the cropped zone. However, I know the "A and B bugs first" statement, that can be used practically always and ever within the development.

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