I'm afraid the absolutely best Image Editing tool is Adobe Photoshop 6.
Resizing images with that is beautiful..the images don't necessarily come
out looking fuzzy at all, they seem to maintain their clarity quite well.
It won't make a thumbnail page automatically for you, but after you do a
BATCH resize you can plug it into a thumbnail page yourself.
You can also look into a combination of Dreamweaver 4+ and Fireworks which
work in tandem to create thumbnail pages, with options on the thumbnails
(size, compression etc. etc.)
Alternately, you could name the thumbnails so:
Large file: Picture0001.jpg
Small thumb: Picture0001_s.jpg.
Then using CF you could search the directory for *_s.jpg and plug them one
by one into a table on a page using errr...CFLOOP?
(Feed them all into a 1 dimensional array?)...and hten automatically create
a dynamic link around the images going to the root name Picture0001.jpg.
You'd be using CF to build your thumbnail page on the fly.
Actually this sounds like a great idea now that I think about it..
Now I just have to figure out the syntax to use :)
-Gel
-----Original Message-----
From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 5:58 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: thumbnails
>I've tried using CFX_GIFGD and CFX_IMAGE, but neither one allows you to set
>the quality (compression ratio) for JPG files. I'm trying to make low
>quality (fast loading) thumbnails auomatically. The thumbnails I make with
>ACDSee are about an eighth the size.
www.jasc.com, Image Robot.
hint: after resizing/resampling, the thumbs will be fuzzy, so apply
one step of sharpening filter. Otherwise, fuzzy AND highly
compressed thumbs will be crappy looking.
Len
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