Magento extension Retina Product Images by Media Rocks

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Sharpen your product images by providing double-sized images for high resolution retina devices.

Compatible with Magento 1.x

Retina Product Images

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Our Retina Images extension displays sharper images to users with high resolution devices and screens like smartphones and tablets by providing a double-sized version of the product image. In contrast to any javascript based approach where the normal image is loaded first and then substituted by the retina version (like retina.js jQuery plugin etc.), this extension creates and caches them server-side on the fly in PHP and provides them directly to the image's source attribute, so only the retina version is loaded.

Frontend Demo • Backend Demo

Features:

  • • No javascript image substitution! Pure PHP with a whiff of JS for the cookie
  • • Adjust image compression level for product images and retina product images separately
  • • Images get cached by magento's internal catalog image caching system
  • • The extension doesn't touch or override any template
  • • Normal images for normal (non-retina) displays
  • • Uses cookie for fast recognition of retina devices
  • • No configuration required
  • • It's free!

    • How-To:

    Install the module like described below, clear your cache and re-login to your admin panel. Go to "System -> Configuration -> MEDIA ROCKS EXTENSIONS" where you have a configuration section called "Retina Images". This is where you can enable the extension.

    You don't have to adjust any template, just make sure your image tags have a height or width set, so the retina