Zoom Addon

The Zoom Addon for Envira Gallery will easily allow you to give your lightbox images a zoom effect on hover or by a simple click from your users.

We’ll walk you through how to set up your gallery lightbox images to allow the zoom on hover (or by click) when your visitors view your lightbox images.

Installation

Please follow our instructions on how to install and activate addons.

In this instance, you’ll be activating the Envira Zoom Addon.

Setup

Step 1 – Create or Edit Gallery

First, you’ll need to either create a new gallery or edit an existing gallery. If you need any help, check out our guide on creating your first gallery.

Step 2 – Configure the Zoom Options

Next, navigate to the Zoom tab and check the box to Enable Zoom Functionality?

Then, continue to set up the remaining options for your zoom settings.

Step 3 – Publish or Update Gallery

Finally, click Publish or Update on your gallery to save the changes.

See the demo!

Would you like to add the zoom effect to your gallery images? Take a look at our CSS tutorial on How to Zoom Thumbnail Images on Hover.

FAQs

Q: Why isn’t the zoom effect very noticeable for my images?

A: The original image size must be large enough to support zoom.

For example, if the image is displayed at 500 × 500 pixels in lightbox view and the original image uploaded is 500 × 500 pixels, when using zoom there will be no noticeable zoom effect on the image.

However, if the image is displayed at 500 × 500 pixels in lightbox view and the original image uploaded is 1000 × 1000 pixels, when using zoom the image will be magnified by 2x.

These same principles are applied if Zoom is enabled for the gallery view.