The Auto Format option in the Update Product Images is a quick and easy way to import your images while applying a maximum image dimension to ensure uniformity of size. However, if you prefer to format and size images yourself, for example with a program like Photoshop®, do so before you import the images into STORIS, and select the Manual Format option in the Image Wizard.
If the Auto Format option is on, you can drop an image onto a product row in the left pane but, if you expand the image detail size block (that is, click on the plus sign (+) at the left of the product row), you cannot drop the image onto a specific product size. With the Auto Format Image option on, you can import only one image for a product.
With the File Explorer tab active, you can drag an image on top of a product in the left pane. When you release the mouse button, the system attaches the image to the product record in the STORIS database. When you drop an image on top of a product with Auto-Format active, the following occurs:
The system creates three image versions based on the source image: a large image, a standard image and a thumbnail image.
If the source image is wider or higher for any of the image versions than the settings specified in the Image Wizard Settings, the system shrinks the image while maintaining the aspect ratio so that neither the height nor width is greater than the maximum size.
For the thumbnail image only, if the width or height is not at the maximum size, the system adds a white "canvas" to fill the image so it is exactly the maximum image size defined in the Image Wizard Settings.
STORIS uses only the large image. Other applications, for example eSTORIS, may use the standard and thumbnail versions.
If the Manual Format Image selection is on, you can drag an image onto the large, standard or thumbnail rows but you cannot drop the image onto the top-level product (this is opposite from the Auto Format Image option described above). If you are using the image in STORIS (as opposed to, for example, eSTORIS), drop the image onto the large row. If the Manual Format Image selection is on, the following occurs:
The system does not re-size the image being imported.
The image you import attaches only to the image size onto which you drop the image. That is, if you drop the image onto the thumbnail row, the image attaches to and stores exclusively as the thumbnail image.
Only jpg images can be imported manually. If the image is in another format, you must convert it to a jpg first.
If the image file size (in KB) is greater than the maximum size allowed for that image type, the system disallows the drop. The maximum file sizes are:
a. Maximum Large Image Size - 200KB
b. Maximum Standard Image Size - 100KB
c. Maximum Thumbnail Image Size - 50KB
After you import your images into STORIS, we recommend you replicate (that is, copy) the images in the STORIS database (also called the STORIS Image Repository) to one or more centrally located directories, and STORIS provides a "service" program for this purpose.
When you import an image into the STORIS database and the Auto Format Image option is on, the system automatically re-sizes the image while maintaining the aspect ratio. The source image can be any image file type and any image size. The system converts the file format of the source image into jpg.
Auto Format re-sizes each imported image three times, creating a large, a standard, and a thumbnail version of the source image. When re-sizing, the system references the maximum dimensions for each image size (specified in the Image Wizard Settings).
For example, if the source image is 600 x 600 pixels and the large image maximum dimensions are 300 high by 200 wide, the system re-sizes the image to 200 x 200. The system shrinks the image so that both the height and width are at or under the maximum size, all the while maintaining the aspect ratio so the ratio between the height and width is not altered.
If the source image already is smaller than or equal to the maximum image size, the system does not re-size the file but it does change the extension to jpg.