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Thumbnails - Any advice?
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lugnet.publish
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Thu, 30 Mar 2000 01:32:36 GMT
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With my most recent web site update, I added the concept of thumbnails.
To make them, I used a graphics program to scale down my pictures to 30% and
then saved a copy under a different name. This makes it so the thumbnails
load reasonably fast and are reasonably small. It was a pain though to
create and link in all those separate files.
Is there a better way?
Another annoying thing is that my thumbnails came out different sizes. This
is because my original scans were different sizes. Also, some of them are
rotated 90 degrees to capture the extreme height of some of my buildings.
I've tried to hide the differing sizes by enclosing the thumbnails in padded
table cells with text off to the right.
Are there better ways?
Here are some examples of thumbnail usage:
http://members.home.net/hmltn1/city2/police.htm
http://members.home.net/hmltn1/city2/aquarium.htm
http://members.home.net/hmltn1/city2/cstore.htm
Here is my main web site:
http://members.home.net/bhamilto1/lego.htm
Can anyone suggest improvement strategies?
I would appreciate the advice,
Brad
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Message has 4 Replies:
 | | Re: Thumbnails - Any advice?
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| (...) Try resizing them not using percentage values but exact dimensions in pixels. This would require some cropping work if your original pictures have different aspect ratios. I suggest Paint Shop Pro (1) for all these work. Selçuk (1) It's a (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)
| | | Re: Thumbnails - Any advice?
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| (...) I noticed that you're using Outlook Express, but if you have access to a Unix system (like Linux) I have a perl script that I've written that uses pbmtools and the cjpeg/jpeg stuff to create thumbnails of all files within a given directory (it (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)
| | | Re: Thumbnails - Any advice?
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| Brad Hamilton <bhamilto1@home.com> wrote in message news:Fs7oDr.LKD@lugnet.com... (...) and (...) if you are Windows user, try ThumbsPlus (www.cerious.com) which will create thumbs for whole directories and create index sheets for them. Huw (24 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)
| | | Re: Thumbnails - Any advice?
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| (...) I use Adobe Photoshop for all my graphics post-processing (but then, I'm a professional Web Designer...). One of its many great features is the ability to program in complex scripts that can be executed on file batches. I've got one that take (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.publish)
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