Venue - Sections - Prevent your slideshow media from being cropped
This article is intended for merchants who wish to use images or videos in the Slideshow section without any cropping of their media.
A: Change the height of your Slideshow section
Inside the Theme editor > Slideshow section you can find settings called Section height (desktop) and Section height (mobile).
- You can choose from Small (5:2), Medium (2:1), Large (16:10) and Full screen (adapts to fit the viewport) on desktop.
- You can choose from Small (1:1), Medium (4:5), Large (10:14), Reel (9:16) and Full screen (adapts to fit the viewport) on mobile.
You have the ability to upload different images for desktop and mobile layouts, allowing independent cropping or resizing for each device. Additionally, you can set the section height independently for both ratios as well.
Note: The 'Reel' size is only available on Venue 15.0.0 onwards. This ratio is meant to mimic the
standard Instagram Reel/TikTok dimensions.
B: Edit your images for desktop ratio/size
Desktop dimensions
- Small (5:2) section height - Ideal media dimensions would be 2200px by 880px for desktop. This displays as a ratio of 5:2
- Medium (2:1) section height - Ideal media dimensions would be 2200px by 1100px for desktop. This displays as a ratio of 2:1
- Large section height (16:10) - Ideal media dimensions would be 2200px by 1375px for desktop. This displays as a ratio of 16:10
- Full screen - the theme will fill the full height of the viewport with the image
C: Edit your images for mobile ratio/size
Mobile dimensions
- Small (1:1) section height - Ideal media dimensions would be 1200x by 1200px for mobile. This displays as a ratio of 1:1 (square)
- Medium (4:5) section height - Ideal media dimensions would be 1200px by 1500px for mobile. This displays as a ratio 4:5
- Large (10:14) section height - Ideal media dimensions would be 1400px by 1960px for mobile. This displays as a ratio of 10:14
- Reel (9:16) section height - Ideal media dimensions would be 1080px by 1920px for mobile. This displays as a ratio of 9:16 (standard Instagram Reel/TikTok size).
- Full screen - the theme will fill the full height of the viewport with the image.
Pro tip: You can use bigger images/video dimensions than those stated above. For example 2160px × 3840px is double the recommended size of 1080px wide × 1920px for Reel but is still 9:16 ratio so will work just the same.
