Image converter can be used for converting image format of any image. It can convert from one supported type to any other supported type. To use Image converter, open the interface by clicking Converter link from Images section.
Step 1 − Navigate to the directories by clicking on folder icon on the left hand side, as we did above.
Step 2 − Select the File or Folder which you want to resize by clicking on the Name of File or Folder.
Note − Image Converter can be used with a single file or folder.
Step 3 − Select new file type from the prompt as shown below, which can be −
Image Scaler is a very useful tool to scale an Image to increase or decrease its dimensions, or we can say to resize an Image. To scale an image, we need to follow these steps −
Step 1 − Open Image Scaler by clicking Scaler from Images section.
Step 2 − Navigate to the directories by clicking on folder icon on the left hand side, same way as done above.
Step 3 − Select the File which you want to resize by clicking on the Name of File.
Note − Image Scaler is a single image tool, and can be used with a single image at a Time.
Step 4 − Enter either new dimensions in Pixels or Enter Percentage by which you want to increase or decrease the Image. You can select, Keep Aspect Ratio, so that the Image ratio is not disturbed, and also you can retain the old copy of the file as Image Scalar replaces old Image to the new one.
With this feature of cPanel, you can manage and modify your Images directly through its Interface. The image must be uploaded into your account to use this feature. To access cPanel Images, click Images Link found on your files section.
This feature includes the following tools −
Thumbnailer Converter
Thumbnailer creates small images or Thumbnails of the original image. This is done by using these images wherever required as it could save more bandwidth. For example, when we need to display a preview of the photo, which will then be opened into a new tab, when the user clicks preview image. We can use a small image here, rather than forcefully scaling the image to display in a small size.
To use Thumbnailer converter, we can open the application by clicking on the Thumbnailer link from images section. We will get a similar dashboard as shown below.
Step 1 − Navigate to the desired directory from which you wish to create Thumbnails, to navigate within directories use folder icon on left hand side.
Step 2 − Select folder from which you wish to create thumbnails, by clicking on the name of folder displayed in middle.
Note − Thumbnailer is a bulk thumbnails creator tool, single image cannot be used in these tools.
Step 3 − In Scale Percent, text inputs enter the percentage by which you wish to shrink the image. Select Keep aspect ratio to maintain original proportion of the Image.
Step 4 − Finally click on Thumbnail Images to create thumbnails.
The system will automatically create a subfolder, Thumbnails into selected folder and all files in that folder will be converted and saved there with a prefix tn_. For example, if you have an image abc.png, then it will be saved into tn_abc.png.
This feature of cPanel allows us to protect certain directories with a username and password. If a directory is protected by this, then if somebody from the front end of your website tries to access the file, they will be prompted to provide a username and password, if username of password does not match, then the user will not be able to see the content of that directory.
To configure a password for a directory, use the following steps −
Step 1 − Open Directory Privacy Configuration by clicking Directory Privacy in the Files Section.
Step 2 − Navigate within your directories to find the directory you want to protect. Use icon on the left hand side to open a directory.
Step 3 − Select the directory you want to protect by clicking on the name of the folder, you will get same configuration as shown below.
Step 4 − Select Password protect for this directory checkbox and enter a Label which you wish to display in the frontend, click Save to protect this directory.
Step 5 − To give access to users, you will need to create users. Enter username and password to create a new user, who will have access to this directory from the frontend.
Step 6 − Click Save to give access to this user. You can also create more than one user here.
If you now try to access your password protected directory, you will get a prompt like this −
You can now enter the username and password to access this directory.
