Re: Need URL of Tutor Site for Thumnails

by Byron Canfield <barn(at)byronc.com>

 Date:  Wed, 22 Apr 1998 16:07:58 -0700
 To:  Jeff Cook <jcook(at)his.com>,
hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org
 References:  bellsouth
  todo: View Thread, Original
At 04:00 PM 4/22/98 -0400, Jeff Cook wrote:
>I'm trying to figure out if there's more to thumbnails than I think. I use
>them at http://www.gaidheal.com/goraidh/sger.htm by making two sets of
>photos. I have a directory called "photos" and one called "thumbs", posting
>the thumbnails with a link to the big pics. I picked whatever size looked
>good without taking a silly amount of time to display. Is there a more
>streamlined way of doing this, or is that about it?

You can also create thumbnails that are just a portion of the actual image,
that is, crop way down to a small interesting area of the image. This is
often more effective and intriguing that just a reduced version of the
entire image.

Barn
(Byron Canfield)
http://www.byronc.com
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