# Photo Album-why does Thumbnails cut off top of photos?

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/photo-album-why-does-thumbnails-cut-off-top-of-photos/3635>\
**Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\
**Created:** [October 30, 2015, 12:22pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/photo-album-why-does-thumbnails-cut-off-top-of-photos/3635 "2015-10-30T12:22:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jody](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/jody/32/417_2.png) [@Jody](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Jody)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 12:22pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/photo-album-why-does-thumbnails-cut-off-top-of-photos/3635/1 "2015-10-30T12:22:18Z")

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Why does the built-in Photo Album page cut off the tops of photos in thumbnail? In this gallery here:  
[http://taranicolas.com/photos/](http://taranicolas.com/photos/)

The images are sized 467 x 700 so these are not square images, which of course would not have a problem. However even with a vertical landscape photo, you would think there would be a way of adjusting a setting so that the tops of heads aren’t cut off in a thumbnail. Is there a way to do this?

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**Author:** ![jbyfield](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/jbyfield/32/82_2.png) [@jbyfield](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/jbyfield)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 6:43pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/photo-album-why-does-thumbnails-cut-off-top-of-photos/3635/2 "2015-10-30T18:43:08Z")

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In the General settings for the Photo Album page there is a tick box to use square thumbnails. Thumbnails look much neater like this but something is going to have to be chopped off to make a rectangular image square. Untick it and see what it looks like - if all images are the same orientation and proportion they should look fine.