diff --git a/configs/stable-diffusion/v1-finetune-danbooru-8gpu.yaml b/configs/stable-diffusion/v1-finetune-danbooru-8gpu.yaml
index 22e6194..ff3b871 100644
--- a/configs/stable-diffusion/v1-finetune-danbooru-8gpu.yaml
+++ b/configs/stable-diffusion/v1-finetune-danbooru-8gpu.yaml
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ data:
     tar_base: "links.tar"
     batch_size: 1
     num_workers: 1
-    size: 512
+    max_size: 768
+    resize: false
     flip_p: 0.5
     image_key: "image"
     copyright_rate: 0.9
diff --git a/danbooru_data/download.py b/danbooru_data/download.py
index 11c9a00..af4b1d6 100644
--- a/danbooru_data/download.py
+++ b/danbooru_data/download.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+from inspect import trace
 import os
 import json
 import requests
@@ -10,7 +11,7 @@ import tarfile
 import glob
 import uuid
 
-from PIL import Image
+from PIL import Image, ImageOps
 
 # downloads URLs from JSON
 
@@ -22,8 +23,27 @@ parser.add_argument('--file', '-f', type=str, required=False, default='links.jso
 parser.add_argument('--out_file', '-o', type=str, required=False, default='dataset-%06d.tar')
 parser.add_argument('--max_size', '-m', type=int, required=False, default=4294967296)
 parser.add_argument('--threads', '-p', required=False, default=16)
+parser.add_argument('--resize', '-r', required=False, default=768)
 args = parser.parse_args()
 
+def resize_image(image: Image, max_size=(768,768)):
+    image = ImageOps.contain(image, max_size, Image.LANCZOS)
+    # resize to integer multiple of 64
+    w, h = image.size
+    w, h = map(lambda x: x - x % 64, (w, h))
+
+    ratio = w / h
+    src_ratio = image.width / image.height
+
+    src_w = w if ratio > src_ratio else image.width * h // image.height
+    src_h = h if ratio <= src_ratio else image.height * w // image.width
+
+    resized = image.resize((src_w, src_h), resample=Image.LANCZOS)
+    res = Image.new("RGB", (w, h))
+    res.paste(resized, box=(w // 2 - src_w // 2, h // 2 - src_h // 2))
+
+    return res
+
 class DownloadManager():
     def __init__(self, max_threads: int = 32):
         self.failed_downloads = []
@@ -31,14 +51,16 @@ class DownloadManager():
         self.uuid = str(uuid.uuid1())
     
     # args = (post_id, link, caption_data)
-    def download(self, args):
+    def download(self, args_thread):
         try:
-            image = Image.open(requests.get(args[1], stream=True).raw).convert('RGB')
+            image = Image.open(requests.get(args_thread[1], stream=True).raw).convert('RGB')
+            if args.resize:
+                image = resize_image(image, max_size=(args.resize, args.resize))
             image_bytes = io.BytesIO()
             image.save(image_bytes, format='PNG')
-            __key__ = '%07d' % int(args[0])
+            __key__ = '%07d' % int(args_thread[0])
             image = image_bytes.getvalue()
-            caption = str(json.dumps(args[2]))
+            caption = str(json.dumps(args_thread[2]))
 
             with open(f'{self.uuid}/{__key__}.image', 'wb') as f:
                 f.write(image)
@@ -46,8 +68,9 @@ class DownloadManager():
                 f.write(caption)
 
         except Exception as e:
-            print(e)
-            self.failed_downloads.append((args[0], args[1], args[2]))
+            import traceback
+            print(e, traceback.print_exc())
+            self.failed_downloads.append((args_thread[0], args_thread[1], args_thread[2]))
     
     def download_urls(self, file_path):
         with open(file_path) as f:
diff --git a/danbooru_data/scrape.py b/danbooru_data/scrape.py
index 07461dd..36f3780 100644
--- a/danbooru_data/scrape.py
+++ b/danbooru_data/scrape.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ parser.add_argument('--danbooru_key', '-key', type=str, required=False)
 parser.add_argument('--tags', '-t', required=False, default="solo -comic -animated -touhou -rating:general order:score age:<1month")
 parser.add_argument('--posts', '-p', required=False, type=int, default=10000)
 parser.add_argument('--output', '-o', required=False, default='links.json')
+parser.add_argument('--start_page', '-s', required=False, default=0, type=int)
 args = parser.parse_args()
 
 import re
@@ -49,7 +50,11 @@ class DanbooruScraper():
             print("Error: num_posts must be divisible by batch_size")
             return
         for i in tqdm(range(num_posts//batch_size)):
-            urls = self.dbclient.post_list(tags=tags, limit=batch_size, random=False, page=i)
+            try:
+                urls = self.dbclient.post_list(tags=tags, limit=batch_size, random=False, page=i+args.start_page)
+            except Exception as e:
+                print(f'Skipping page {i} - {e}')
+                continue
             if not urls:
                 print(f'Empty results at {i}')
                 break
diff --git a/ldm/data/local.py b/ldm/data/local.py
index f530c6a..5328b3b 100644
--- a/ldm/data/local.py
+++ b/ldm/data/local.py
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ class LocalBase(Dataset):
                  shuffle=False,
                  mode='train',
                  val_split=64,
-                 
                  ):
         super().__init__()
 
diff --git a/ldm/data/localdanbooru.py b/ldm/data/localdanbooru.py
index 7617057..7624646 100644
--- a/ldm/data/localdanbooru.py
+++ b/ldm/data/localdanbooru.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import os
 import numpy as np
 import PIL
-from PIL import Image
+from PIL import Image, ImageOps
 import random
 
 PIL.Image.MAX_IMAGE_PIXELS = 933120000
@@ -17,8 +17,26 @@ import re
 import json
 import io
 
+def resize_image(image: Image, max_size=(768,768)):
+    image = ImageOps.contain(image, max_size, Image.LANCZOS)
+    # resize to integer multiple of 64
+    w, h = image.size
+    w, h = map(lambda x: x - x % 64, (w, h))
+
+    ratio = w / h
+    src_ratio = image.width / image.height
+
+    src_w = w if ratio > src_ratio else image.width * h // image.height
+    src_h = h if ratio <= src_ratio else image.height * w // image.width
+
+    resized = image.resize((src_w, src_h), resample=Image.LANCZOS)
+    res = Image.new("RGB", (w, h))
+    res.paste(resized, box=(w // 2 - src_w // 2, h // 2 - src_h // 2))
+
+    return res
+
 class CaptionProcessor(object):
-    def __init__(self, copyright_rate, character_rate, general_rate, artist_rate, normalize, caption_shuffle, transforms):
+    def __init__(self, copyright_rate, character_rate, general_rate, artist_rate, normalize, caption_shuffle, transforms, max_size, resize):
         self.copyright_rate = copyright_rate
         self.character_rate = character_rate
         self.general_rate = general_rate
@@ -26,6 +44,8 @@ class CaptionProcessor(object):
         self.normalize = normalize
         self.caption_shuffle = caption_shuffle
         self.transforms = transforms
+        self.max_size = max_size
+        self.resize = resize
     
     def clean(self, text: str):
         text = ' '.join(set([i.lstrip('_').rstrip('_') for i in re.sub(r'\([^)]*\)', '', text).split(' ')])).lstrip().rstrip()
@@ -59,16 +79,9 @@ class CaptionProcessor(object):
 
         # preprocess image
         image = sample['image']
-
         image = Image.open(io.BytesIO(image))
-        
-        img = np.array(image).astype(np.uint8)
-        crop = min(img.shape[0], img.shape[1])
-        h, w, = img.shape[0], img.shape[1]
-        img = img[(h - crop) // 2:(h + crop) // 2,
-            (w - crop) // 2:(w + crop) // 2]
-        image = Image.fromarray(img)
-
+        if self.resize:
+            image = resize_image(image, max_size=(self.max_size, self.max_size))
         image = self.transforms(image)
         image = np.array(image).astype(np.uint8)
         sample['image'] = (image / 127.5 - 1.0).astype(np.float32)
@@ -107,7 +120,7 @@ def dict_collation_fn(samples, combine_tensors=True, combine_scalars=True):
 
 class DanbooruWebDataModuleFromConfig(pl.LightningDataModule):
     def __init__(self, tar_base, batch_size, train=None, validation=None,
-                 test=None, num_workers=4, size=512, flip_p=0.5, image_key='image', copyright_rate=0.9, character_rate=0.9, general_rate=0.9, artist_rate=0.9, normalize=True, caption_shuffle=True, 
+                 test=None, num_workers=4, max_size=768, resize=False, flip_p=0.5, image_key='image', copyright_rate=0.9, character_rate=0.9, general_rate=0.9, artist_rate=0.9, normalize=True, caption_shuffle=True, random_order=True,
                  **kwargs):
         super().__init__(self)
         print(f'Setting tar base to {tar_base}')
@@ -117,7 +130,8 @@ class DanbooruWebDataModuleFromConfig(pl.LightningDataModule):
         self.train = train
         self.validation = validation
         self.test = test
-        self.size = size
+        self.max_size = max_size
+        self.resize = resize
         self.flip_p = flip_p
         self.image_key = image_key
         self.copyright_rate = copyright_rate
@@ -126,16 +140,17 @@ class DanbooruWebDataModuleFromConfig(pl.LightningDataModule):
         self.artist_rate = artist_rate
         self.normalize = normalize
         self.caption_shuffle = caption_shuffle
+        self.random_order = random_order
 
     def make_loader(self, dataset_config, train=True):
         image_transforms = []
-        image_transforms.extend([torchvision.transforms.Resize(self.size), torchvision.transforms.RandomHorizontalFlip(self.flip_p)],)
+        image_transforms.extend([torchvision.transforms.RandomHorizontalFlip(self.flip_p)],)
         image_transforms = torchvision.transforms.Compose(image_transforms)
 
         transform_dict = {}
         transform_dict.update({self.image_key: image_transforms})
 
-        postprocess = CaptionProcessor(copyright_rate=self.copyright_rate, character_rate=self.character_rate, general_rate=self.general_rate, artist_rate=self.artist_rate, normalize=self.normalize, caption_shuffle=self.caption_shuffle, transforms=image_transforms)
+        postprocess = CaptionProcessor(copyright_rate=self.copyright_rate, character_rate=self.character_rate, general_rate=self.general_rate, artist_rate=self.artist_rate, normalize=self.normalize, caption_shuffle=self.caption_shuffle, transforms=image_transforms, max_size=self.max_size, resize=self.resize)
         
 
         tars = os.path.join(self.tar_base)