When you’re creating an eCommerce website, one of the first things you need to do is figure out how to serve scaled images. Scaled images are basically photos that have been reduced in size so that they can be used on a web page without them taking up too much space. Scaled images are great for optimizing your site for mobile devices, as well as for making your products look more appealing on screen. In this blog post, we’ll show you how to serve scaled images in Shopify and make your site look its best.
What is Scaled Images?
If you have a product that is available in different sizes, then you should serve scaled images to your customers. A scaled image is an image that has been reduced in size so that it can be displayed on a smaller screen. When a scaled image is served, it will not fill the entirety of the screen like a full-size image would.
There are two ways to serve scaled images in Shopify: using the built-in scaling option or using a third-party plugin. The built-in scaling option is located under the Shopify Admin > Settings > Media section. To use the built-in scaling option, first select the size of your image and then click on the Scale button. The scale options are listed next to each other and range from 100% (full size) to 1/4th (smallest size).
The second way to serve scaled images is by using a third-party plugin. There are many plugins available that allow you to scale images automatically for your customers. The best way to find a plugin is to search for it on Google or npmjs.com. Once you’ve found a plugin, add it to your Shopify site and configure it according to your needs.
How to Set Up a Scale Image
In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to set up a scale image in Shopify. A scale image is an image that is 1/1,000th the size of the full size version of that same image. This can be helpful if you don’t have enough space on your website to display the full-size version of an image, or if you want to use an image as a background for a product page but don’t want people to be able to see the entire product.
To set up a scale image in Shopify, follow these steps:
1) First, create a new file in your Shopify admin panel and name it “scaleimage.jpg”. This file will be used as the source for our scaled images.
2) Next, go to the Images tab on your shop’s Settings page and click on the “Add Image” button located below your shop’s logo.
3) Enter the dimensions (width and height) of your scaleimage.jpg file into the fields that appear onscreen and click on the “Open” button at the bottom of the form.
How to Use the Scale Image in Shopify
In this article, we will show you how to serve scaled images in Shopify. To do this, we will be using Amazon’s CloudFront service.
1. Sign up for a CloudFront account at https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/.
2. Once you have signed up for a CloudFront account, create an origin (root) domain name and set it up as your CloudFront endpoint (see the example below). exampleCloudFrontEndpointURL: “https://origin-domain-name.cloudfront.net”
3. Now create a bucket on your origin domain name that will store the scaled images (see the example below). Make sure the bucket has read and write permissions so that we can upload our images to it. exampleBucketName: “scaledImages”
4. Create a request header called “Access-Control-Allow-Origin” with your origin domain name as the value (see the example below). This setting tells CloudFront which domains are allowed to access your bucket’s content.
exampleHeaderValue: “origin-domain-name”
5. Add an HTTP header to all of your requests that contain scaled images called “Expires” with a date in the future (see the example below). This setting tells browsers when to stop caching our scaled images after they have been served from our CloudFront endpoint.
Conclusion
Serving scaled images in Shopify can be a great way to create an immersive shopping experience for your customers. By using scaling percentages, you can ensure that the images displayed on each product page match the size of the product itself. This ensures that your customers have a consistent and realistic experience when browsing through your store. If you want to learn more about serving scaled images in Shopify, be sure to check out our helpful guide below!
