Hi I am having a few issues with pictures.  First, the picture I upload as the gallery image for my post always loads very slow compared to other pics.  I even compress the picture.  I've been putting the recommended size of 1170x80.  Any fixes for this?

Also, when I upload a picture, it always cuts it off in my slide. I've found this annoying because I like to do collages with three pics, but they get cut off so bad I have to do 2.  Even that gets cut off sometimes, check out the slide Christmas decor hacks.  Is there a way to get the theme to stop zooming in and cutting off my pics, I don't care if the resolution goes down.  

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Thanks.