Drupal/C3/Controlling-Display-of-Images/English-timed
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Time | Narration |
00:01 | Welcome to the Spoken tutorial on Controlling Display of Images. |
00:06 | In this tutorial, we will learn about Image styles and a photo gallery view. |
00:12 | To record this tutorial, I am using:
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00:21 | You can use any web browser as per your choice. |
00:25 | Let us open our website which we created earlier. |
00:29 | In Drupal, we can manipulate the size and scale of an image to fit the different needs of the site. |
00:37 | Drupal takes the original image and converts it to the size and scale we want. |
00:43 | Then, it saves that version of the file. |
00:46 | Click on Configuration. |
00:48 | We are going to create 2 image styles here. |
00:51 | Scroll down and locate MEDIA tab. |
00:54 | Here, we can see Image Styles. Click on it. |
00:58 | We will create an Image style for the table that we have set up. |
01:03 | And also for the next view that we will be creating which is a grid of logos. |
01:09 | Click on Add image styles. |
01:12 | In the Image style name, we will type "Upcoming Events 150 x 150". |
01:19 | Notice that Drupal fills out the machine name for us. |
01:23 | This is our Image style name. |
01:26 | Now, click on Create new style. |
01:29 | On the left, is the original image which is 600 by 800 pixels and the edited version of the image is on the right. |
01:38 | Under EFFECT, click on Select a new effect drop-down. |
01:42 | Many options are displayed in this list. Among these options, I will choose Scale and crop effect. |
01:49 | You can choose any option that you want to. For eg: Rotate, Resize or any other. |
01:56 | Click on the Add button. |
01:58 | Enter the Width as 150 and Height as 150. |
02:02 | Remember - never make the Width and Height larger than the original image. |
02:07 | Doing so, will cause the image to pixelate. |
02:11 | Click Add effect. |
02:13 | Here is our new Image Style. In the right-hand-side image, we can see that it is now scaled and cropped. |
02:22 | Let’s create another one. Click on Image styles and then on Add image styles button. |
02:29 | This time, in the Image style name we will type: "photo gallery of logos". |
02:35 | Then click on Create new style button. |
02:38 | This can be an image in any photo gallery on your machine. |
02:42 | You can do this for any image, in any field and in any content. |
02:47 | Once again, click on Select a new effect and then on Scale and crop option. |
02:53 | Click on Add button. Let’s enter the Width as 300 and Height as 300. |
03:00 | And then click on Add effect button. |
03:03 | Notice that the right-hand-side image now has the new dimensions of 300 by 300. |
03:09 | This shows that Drupal automatically creates versions of images for each Image style and stores them on the site. |
03:18 | Click Structure, then on Views. |
03:21 | Let’s now update our Upcoming Events view by clicking on Edit. |
03:27 | Click on Event Logo and change the Image Style to Upcoming Events. |
03:33 | Then click on Apply. |
03:36 | Scroll down to the preview section and we find that our logos are all uniform. |
03:42 | Now, click on Save. |
03:45 | Click on Back to site. Here’s our view on our website. |
03:50 | This is what Image Styles does. |
03:53 | Let’s now create a new view as a grid layout for all these events. |
03:59 | To do this, click on Structures, then Views, and Add new view. |
04:05 | We will name this as Photo Gallery. |
04:09 | Set the view setting as Content - of type - Events. |
04:14 | This particular view could be used as photo-of-the-day or gallery of images for any event. |
04:22 | Click on Create a page. |
04:25 | Scroll down and select Grid of fields. |
04:29 | Please note: we can choose any other option, provided in the drop-down by Drupal, also. |
04:36 | In Items to display field, choose 9 as this gives a 3 by 3 grid. |
04:42 | Let’s check Create a menu link as well. |
04:46 | Under the Menu drop-down, choose the option Main navigation. |
04:51 | Then click Save and Edit. |
04:54 | Let’s cross-check with our 5 criteria:
The Display is a Page, |
04:59 | the Format is a Grid, |
05:01 | there is only one Field named Title, |
05:04 | and lastly, the Filter and Sort Criteria. |
05:08 | We will leave these as they are, for now. |
05:12 | Scroll down. We see here - we have 4 columns and 9 events. |
05:17 | To change the number of columns, in Format, click on the Settings option. |
05:22 | Then change the number of columns to 3 and click Apply. |
05:28 | That will give us a 3 by 3 grid. |
05:31 | In Fields, click on Add. |
05:34 | Locate the Event Logo, put a check mark on it and then click on Apply. |
05:40 | This time, choose the photo gallery of logos as Image style. |
05:45 | In Link image to, choose Content, and then click Apply. |
05:50 | Immediately, in the Preview section below, a grid is laid out. |
05:55 | So, you see, a grid layout differs from a table. |
06:00 | All the fields that you choose from a node, are in one cell. |
06:05 | And, we can decide how many cells we want to display. |
06:09 | Let’s click on Save now. |
06:12 | Let’s click on Back to site button and then click on Photo Gallery. |
06:17 | This looks quite nice. |
06:19 | On a small device like a mobile, all the images scale down to maintain their 3 by 3 grid. |
06:26 | And that is what Drupal does with a grid. |
06:29 | With this, we come to the end of this tutorial. Let us summarize. |
06:34 | In this tutorial, we have learnt about Image styles and A photo gallery view. |
06:44 | This video is adapted from Acquia and OSTraining and revised by Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay. |
06:53 | The video at this link summarizes the Spoken Tutorial project. Please download and watch it. |
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07:19 | This is Ameesha Bhorkhade, signing off. Thanks for joining. |