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Hi Tom,
Thanks for the info, much appreciated. I'll give it a go and see what happens.....will pop back here if results are good/bad for feedback.
Hello Tom,
I apologize for the confusion. The site isn't live yet. I can't exactly include screenshots here but I'll try to explain further.
What I consider "featured image" is the picture box at the top of the home page on New Pro, and yes - it has tabs. If my measurements are correct, using the screenshot function from my Macbook, it looks to be about 740 pixels wide and about 400 pixels high. You can see this at the demo: http://my.studiopress.com/themes/news/#demo-full - the "featured image" is the woman standing with her back to the camera getting photographed. The headline reads "Stars Hit the Red Carpet." If you click the image you enter into what I consider the actual "blog post image" which is again similar layout to my site - content left, sidebar right. But notice the image size has changed. It's not cropped anymore.
This image does not have a watermark on it like some of mine do. So when I put a water marked image that is of equal proportions to this and it appears on the featured image box on the home page under it's particular category, the watermark is cropped as well. So if I create images to fit the featured image box on the front page, they will be wider and less tall than if they were in the blogpost - where the image appears to be taller but less wide. Even if I stop using the watermark, what if I add a picture and I want the framing to be correct - from blog post image to featured image it is not resizing anything - it is cropping.
At this point, don't even get me started on the other smaller images like 348 wide by however tall they are. This image is on the right side of the demo called "Touring Group Tears Down The House."
So it seems to me there are 2 or perhaps 3 different sizes to deal with - If my math is correct, resizing and cropping to make them all good looking without anything hanging off the page or being squeezed is not possible. I'm not a picture expert either but I could tell photoshop to resize to X by X pixels and live with it. Or learn how to crop better using photoshop to get the sizes I need to work for this theme.
As for the advertising banners et al. - once I figure out the maximum width I will just use the media button to post them like pictures and link the url to the site involved.
Basically, I can't figure out what picture size I need to use to get around this debacle. If the picture has a watermark and it is showing up on the front page, the watermark is cropped slightly because of the featured image size.