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"Penny S" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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I'm in the process of redoingsome of my persoanal pages, and I have a general question for whoever
wants to pipe up:

for photo album viewing, is page of thumbnails that link to images preferable to a page with let's
say, a half dozen or so medium size

photos?

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penny

As someone who peruses countless [censored], thumbnails are definitely the way to go. But do what Pete
suggested and sharpen them and don't make them too small... much more professional looking.
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Pete said:

On cable/dsl, I don't mind medium/full size. But, we have to design for the lowest common
denominator. Dialup, coming from overseas.

Of general ride pics, thumbies are the way to go.

BTW, the Microsoft HTML generator also does thumbnails as well (use the "advanced slideshow" mode).
They run about 3-4k each.

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john i really like the way you did your web site.. each thumbnail has text... and each full size pic
has it's own web page with the same text.

I have photoshop and frontpage... can I duplicate your approach with these?

thanks charlie

John Harlow said:

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Me, I admit to being too lazy for any thumbnail approach -- I name my images and have a PHP
script search through the directories, using the filenames as the links. There are many
"album"-type applications out there for free, if you can use PHP, perl, etc on your server, but
so far I haven't liked any of them well enough to use them.

I wrote the .aspx components for the gallery on my site. You just plop the components and pictures
in a folder and it does all the rest, with server side image scaling (don't download the whole
image to the browser) and a slideshow.

Problems with it are it requires .net hosting and a good server (hostonce servers must be
underclocked 286s)

Here's an example of what it does: johnnyhouse.comgallery.aspOpen ↗

You're free to use the code if you'd like.

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I can't get that page to load, but coencidentally, I was thinking I needed to write something like
that just last night. If I could pilfer your code, that would be wonderful.

You got it. send me your addy at johnharlow at hotmail and I'll send it on. Improvements welcome!

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john i really like the way you did your web site.. each thumbnail has text... and each full size
pic has it's own web page with the same text.

I have photoshop and frontpage... can I duplicate your approach with these?

Sure Charles, If your host supports .aspx components (.net hosting) it will work. They are extremly
simple to use. All you do is create a folder on your webeserver, put your pictures (rename them to
the photo captions) and these 2 small components in the folder and you're done.

Send your email address to johnharlow at hotmail.com and I'll send them to you.

On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 15:50:33 -0700, P e t e F a g e r l i n <[email hidden]> penned:

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I'm talking about basic photography terms that are used to describe a photo's appearance.

"sharp" as in crisp focus and "soft" as in fuzzy focus.

When pictures are reduced in any image manipulation/editing app they become soft. They need to be
sharpened to lose the fuzzy look.

Question: Imagemagick's convert (command-line tool) has the following option:

-sharpen <radius>{x<sigma>} sharpen the image

What on earth do radius and sigma mean in this context? Is this related to the sharpening we're
talking about?

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Monique Y. Herman said:

On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 15:50:33 -0700, P e t e F a g e r l i n <[email hidden]> penned:

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I'm talking about basic photography terms that are used to describe

a

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photo's appearance.

"sharp" as in crisp focus and "soft" as in fuzzy focus.

When pictures are reduced in any image manipulation/editing app

they

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become soft. They need to be sharpened to lose the fuzzy look.

Question: Imagemagick's convert (command-line tool) has the following option:

-sharpen <radius>{x<sigma>} sharpen the image

What on earth do radius and sigma mean in this context? Is this

related

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to the sharpening we're talking about?

Sharpening, or using what's called an Unsharp Masktypically has a number of variables including
levels, radius, intensity, etc.

Google time.

P e t e F a g e r l i n scrawled in bright red lipstick:

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It's all a learning process for me. I've just discovered the web album feature of PS 6, and I'm
still trying to figure out how to incorporate it into the other simple stuff I do.

I can't recall if the web photo album contains an automatic sharpening function. If you decide the
auto-generated thumbs need sharpeniing you can always use the batch command to run the thumnail
folder through a simple open, sharpen, save, close action (search in PS help for "batch" and
"actions"😉

thanks, I do know how to automate processes. ;-)

Penny

Several people sent me emails regarding the photo gallery components I wrote. I hope they are some
benefit to you!

Rather than send me an email requesting them, you can now download them directly from
johnnyhouse.comgallery components.htmOpen ↗