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    Default Imported photos into web documents are automatically made smaller - max. 1920px wide

    Copy/paste from the manual (page 27):
    When you import a stock photo into a print document you get the photo’s full resolution into your design. The resolution of photos varies, but most are much higher than HD resolution.
    When you import into a web document, as when importing local photos, the resolution is still limited to HD because it’s rare to need any higher resolution than this for a website.
    So any photo I drag and drop into a web document (or import from the Content Catalog) gets optimized to be a maximum of 1920px wide. It's not just a dpi change so it fits nicely on the page, the image really gets reduced to be 1920px wide.

    Having full-width graphics on a website is pretty common. Having a photo that needs a lot of cropping is also not that rare.

    By already reducing an image on import to 1920px you remove the option to zoom in a decent amount on part of an image and still have it be above 96dpi for the final result. It's even worse if you consider the 2x Retina version that needs to be created as well.

    I would really like the option to just drag/drop high resolution images into a web document and not have the program give me a smaller version of it before I've even decided what part of the image I want to use.

    Perhaps an extra option under "Options/View" to not automatically reduce images down to HD on web document imports.

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    Default Re: Imported photos into web documents are automatically made smaller - max. 1920px w

    there is in registry ...options/filters, a key called: WebImportPhotoOptimise set by default to 1

    changing this to 0 may help, but I have not tested it as I don't do websites, so be careful if you do
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    Default Re: Imported photos into web documents are automatically made smaller - max. 1920px w

    Here's one i prepared earlier: https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...Picture-Holder.

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    Default Re: Imported photos into web documents are automatically made smaller - max. 1920px w

    Know1, in Explorer select the photo and choose open with Xara (whichever version you have) This opens the image in a Xara photo page. Select and copy it and paste it into a web document. It is imported at original dpi. Do with it whatever you wish after this
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    Default Re: Imported photos into web documents are automatically made smaller - max. 1920px w

    Yeah, it's just a silly thing to have to do.
    Basically what seems to happen is that Xara doesn't show this popup option in web documents when you import an image, but just goes ahead and selects 'Import reduced' without telling you.

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    Default Re: Imported photos into web documents are automatically made smaller - max. 1920px w

    you can also change the image size at which that function becomes active in the registry using ...options/filters/importsize this key is straight forward, I have mine set to 10000, 1920 being far to low for my bitmap editing which can be A3 at 600dpi
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    Default Re: Imported photos into web documents are automatically made smaller - max. 1920px w

    Quote Originally Posted by handrawn View Post
    you can also change the image size at which that function becomes active in the registry using ...options/filters/importsize this key is straight forward, I have mine set to 10000, 1920 being far to low for my bitmap editing which can be A3 at 600dpi
    I'm also having the same problem since WDP17 - all images are imported at 500px wide!!!
    Opened the registry and saw the importsize key IS set at 1920. Changed the value to 3000 and closed the registry ( no save button?) and restarted my machine.
    No difference at all - images still imported at 500px! Very frustrating since I am doing a photographic portfolio site for a client..

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    Default Re: Imported photos into web documents are automatically made smaller - max. 1920px w

    @letsgofishing, check the Options/View/Bitmaps section, It sounds like it is still set to the first option "Resize large imported photos down to [500] pixels"

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    Default Re: Imported photos into web documents are automatically made smaller - max. 1920px w

    know1 is correct - registry editing is only a last resort when there is no option in the UI

    [and if you sre not familiar with registry editing be careful and backup first before you make any changes]
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    Default Re: Imported photos into web documents are automatically made smaller - max. 1920px w

    Hi,

    Improvements to image import for web documents (all documents) will be in the next Xara Designer Pro+, release scheduled for early Sept. Not sure when for DPX, you'll know as soon as I know.

    Thanks

 

 

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