"Fit" option for full-screen layouts (home page and galleries)
Add a “fit-to-screen” option to the full-screen layouts for the home page and galleries to prevent photo cropping. When enabled, the photo is displayed as large as possible without cropping.
Additionally, it'd be nice to have the thumbnails bar in these layouts centered rather than left-aligned (with small photo sets where the bar does not cover the entire width of the screen), as well as an auto-advance option.

34 comments
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D R Stockdale Photography commented
I do not understand why this issue has not been corrected. The ability to print an image as is use to be there. Doesnt make sense for a company providing a great platform to sell your work limits the creative process like this. If its Mpix as it appears to be then get a different lab that doesnt constrain the printing process. Zenfolio please address
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Kickoffbet commented
thank you https://circuss.online
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D R Stockdale Photography commented
I have also submitted this to Customer Support for the same obvious reasons everyone else sites. What I am wondering is why couldn't this be implemented in a test environment that could be turned on or off to allow Zenfolio users to beta test and comment before production implementation avoiding all this dismay.
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Dandelion Photography commented
I've returned to this issue hoping this is in development.. why is this not being worked on?!
I am probably going to leave Zenfolio for this issue alone.A photographer's website needs to show photography as intended, not with some random crop!
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Ian M Butterfield commented
Essential feature - just spent time trying to workout how to do this because it never crossed my mind that this was not possible.
For one of the leading photography hosting services in the world the fact that this fundamental feature is not available is unbelievable.
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Dandelion Photography commented
This is essential. I have spent 4 work days trying to get my images to look "right" on my homepage and it's still not right. If you are selling your website to photographers you need to make the photos look their best. That much is obvious.
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Anonymous commented
Agreed - please change this in full screen layouts so that each image in a Photo Strip can fit screen size automatically.
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Janet Boehmer commented
Absolutely should have this feature.
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Jason Spannagel commented
Just got my site up and running a few days ago, and am shocked that this isn't a standard feature in zenfolio. It really does need addressed.
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Anonymous commented
Agree! This is mandatory, and it should be easy. Any photo that's tall and narrow in one of these galleries gets fatally mangled, making me look like an idiot. These layouts should not have gone live without this being fixed. This situation is simply a bug, not in the category of a desirable enhancement.
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Don commented
Very necessary!!
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Look At This commented
Given how crucial framing and positioning of visual elements in the frame is in creating a photograph and communicating the photographer's creative vision, it is jaw dropping that a photography website thinks it is okay to arbitrarily crop the photographer's photos. The integrity of the photograph, and respect for the intention of the photographer, has to be paramount if the site is seriously to be considered a photographic website.
This feature is absolutely mandatory. It is due to the absence of this feature that I have resorted to not using the "full screen" slideshow.
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Anonymous commented
YES
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Anonymous commented
I honestly can't believe there is not a function on here already to allow this!!! This is totally unacceptable !!!!
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Anonymous commented
A must have IMO, if you want to create a really clean portfolio UI
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Dan McLinden commented
Support says new updates are just around the corner but they can't guarantee which enhancements will be there, and that priorities are based on votes, so I've added my three and hoping it happens sooner rather than later. For now the only alternative is to choose only wide-screen images with the subject in the middle or stick with layouts other than full-screen.
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George Wheelhouse Fine Art Photography commented
Easy and obvious.
Should have been done when they first introduced full-screen layouts, but better late than never. -
S&J Visuals commented
Yes, please!
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Anonymous commented
It´s a must have!
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Rich Ganzel commented
Only makes sense - please!