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a good freeware thumbnail program? - 7/31/2002 13:41:48
Can anyone recomend a good freeware thumbnail creating program? I have been looking at several online but don' t know which ones are really good to use.
thanks for any help. appreciate it.
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RE: a good freeware thumbnail program? - 7/31/2002 14:21:36
C1sissy,
http://irfanview.tuwien.ac.at/ - is pretty good.
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RE: a good freeware thumbnail program? - 7/31/2002 15:05:14
Thanks erin, I had this one before and never installed after a format. I think I' ll go and check it out again.!!
How are you doign??????
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RE: a good freeware thumbnail program?/Bobby - 8/1/2002 16:24:56
Bobby:
How would I go about doing that. Sounds like it would be a lot easier than the hours I have spent searching for a program. Also, could you use the web gallery to do the same thing?
What I need are the thumbs to create a table listing items description and prices for a course that I have been working on.
The web gallery would be for a family site that I am working on.
I would definately appreciate any help that you could supply me with. I tired the irfanview, however (I' m sure that I could have done something wrong) When I created the thumb with the html, it gave me a page with the infrview name on it. Not exactly how I would like to set up what I' m trying to do.
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RE: a good freeware thumbnail program? - 8/1/2002 19:42:27
Hi C1
With irfanview try a batch conversion for a " batch" of your thumbnails.
This enables extra paramaters for the graphic including size, color, & the all important " sharpen" at the end. FILE>BATCH CONVERSION.
You can get hundreds of images at a time all thumbed to the same size.
As Bobby you mentioned, thumbnails in FP are easy.....it just depends if you are going to actually link them to the original image, wether this is the way for you to go.
Not too sure about saving as html though.
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RE: a good freeware thumbnail program? - 8/2/2002 8:06:05
C1sissy,
Frontpage 2002 does a nice job with pictures. I used on this site http://sk8america.com/hamptonpictures.htm . It did d a nice job.
I also have used the irfanview to change names & resize. I have not had any problems with either.
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RE: a good freeware thumbnail program? - 8/2/2002 9:40:10
Erin:
Nice site!! I can dream, lol.
Like I said as far as irnfview is concerned I' m sure that it is something That I have done wrong.
I found a program called easy thumbs, now I just have to wade my way around in it. I did some work in there this morning, but.... Your thumbs definatly look better. Is there a standard size for a thumb?
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RE: a good freeware thumbnail program? - 8/3/2002 8:11:29
C1sissy,
You have been doing great. There is no stupid question.
I know I have on occasion worked really hard on something - Can not do something or find the answer - then post here - and get an easy reply. On occasion I have felt I must have been brian dead at the time because the answer was right there & I missed it. Other times I find out it is not an easy thing.
However the people here are great. I have never felt I wasted a post. (unless you count the night we reached a pinnacle number on the ignore this post - but that was just fun)
Keep posting & someone will normally answer.
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RE: a good freeware thumbnail program? - 8/3/2002 9:34:03
I know that Mhaircaish uses this one when he' s working with Windows machines, and won' t touch anything else.
Don' t know what he uses when he' s using Linux ' though.
http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/index.html
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RE: a good freeware thumbnail program? - 8/3/2002 9:51:28
Gorilla:
Thanks I did find that one. And I did use it! I works great. The only thing that I noticed is that my thumbs aren' t a square size or all the same size. Does this have something to do with when I crop the picture? Am I not setting something correctly?
I like how this program works. I can put all the pictures in the same folder that I want thumbed and do it all at one time. Works in a matter of seconds.
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RE: a good freeware thumbnail program? - 8/3/2002 10:22:16
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The only thing that I noticed is that my thumbs aren' t a square size or all the same size. Does this have something to do with when I crop the picture?
It' s just about impossible to have thumbnails the same size when the originals are not. If resizing isn' t " constrained" the pics will become distorted.
I' m not familiar with the program you use but when using a thumbnail generator, I set one dimension as the maximum width or heigth, while keeping constrained selected. Depending on how vastly different the size of each original though, this can cause thumbnails to become pixellated parituclarly if a small pix needs to be proportionally " enlarged."
Because I' m into photography, I typically create hundreds of thumbnails (or reduced sizes of pics) a year. I actually can use 4-5 different programs to get what I need done. Purists will tell you, and rightfully so, that to get the best thumbnails make them one at a time. But boy is that time consuming. If you need to optimize and photo enhance photos which will be made into thumbnails, the proper sequence of each procedure becomes important.
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RE: a good freeware thumbnail program?/Photoshop - 8/3/2002 20:49:53
Ok, now I have been looking at these thumb programs, and duh hits,
If I go into photoshop and resize, am I basically making a thumbnail? I was playing around with it tonight. Just not sure if you do this if it is considered a thumbnail. Plus you can do the constrant thingie in there that I can' t seem to find in the other programs. Plus since as Gail says each photo needs to be done properly to get it to look right, wouldn' t photoshop be the best way to do this? yawn, tired here from figure ing this out!!!
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RE: RE: a good freeware thumbnail program?/Photoshop - 8/4/2002 10:03:12
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Plus since as Gail says each photo needs to be done properly to get it to look right, wouldn' t photoshop be the best way to do this?
c1sissy,
I didn' t mean to imply that you should only use a good photo editing program such a photoshop to make thumbnails. I just completed a job where I made almost 200 thumbnails www.bellaumbrella.com (click on a category link to see a thumbnail page).
This was a particularly challenging project, the main one' s relating to the way I resized photos: time pressures to get the job done; the extremely intricate detail of the umbrellas; photo and thumbnail size requirements by the client.
Particularly because of the time essence, I used a thumbnail generator. I have several programs which generate thumbnails. I believe I may have used FilmFactory' s. Some programs have automated processes to generate photo galleries for websites. When I use this process, I just take the thumbnails out of the image folders.
I think the quality of the thumbnails at this site is acceptable but could have been even better if I did each individually. The enlarged photos were also resized through a batch process.
btw, all the photos in the site were sharpened and adjusted for contrast and brightness one at a time in a photo editing program after resizing.
Hope this helps, gail
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RE: a good freeware thumbnail program? - 8/4/2002 12:10:29
Gail, that site is totally awsome!!!
I used harms tile to create a backround, lol but.....I don' t know how to insert it into the site that I' m working on for this course. lol. slightly embarassed here as well!
The course I' m taking started out great for an online course, however, the instructor tends not to answer questions lately. So it is basically figure it out for yourself. which can be good.
I think that I solved,for now that is, my thumb delima, I reinstalled Ulead Photo Explorer, which has a thumb generator in it. So I now have some thumbs to work with. whewww. Now finish up the last few assignments so that I can finish up this course. I might even get brave and load it temporaily to have it critiqued. lol.
Thanks for all your help, the reason I figured photoshop was because I was playing around with resizing photos in there. So I figured since resizing in there, maybe that would have been the way to do it. One good thing, the more you play the more you learn!!
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