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[olimario]

I'm making a website for my new godson. I was wondering if there was a program out there, preferrably freeware, that would take a folder of pictures, turn them to thumbnails, and create a gallery from them that I can upload as a series of webpages?

I know some adobe program did this, but I don't have.

 

[Dilbert]

Picasa. Free, thanks to Google. According to the documentation, it can export a DHTML-compatible webpage from a selected gallery. Haven't tried it, so I don't know how well it works...but it's a good starting place.

 

[Ecrofirt]

do you have to make thumbnails? Can't you just set the width and height per picture on the page?

There's probably some reason you're not doing this, though.

 

[8bit]

If it's server side tech you need, I think imagemagick or batik suits your needs. Otherwise, google a photoshop plugin.

 

[Dilbert]

do you have to make thumbnails? Can't you just set the width and height per picture on the page?

There's probably some reason you're not doing this, though.

If you do that, you have two problems:

1) You waste bandwidth loading the ENTIRE image into the thumbnail. The whole point of thumbnails is to conserve bandwidth while allowing the user to select which images are "worth" seeing.

2) It's bad (X)HTML style to specify a height/width which is not the same as the source image. Also, you are relying on the browser's own scaler to deal with the minification, which will have unknown -- but usually poor -- quality.

 

[olimario]

I'm going to give this PISCA thing a try.
I appreciate the help, jinx.

 

[Ecrofirt]

If you do that, you have two problems:

1) You waste bandwidth loading the ENTIRE image into the thumbnail. The whole point of thumbnails is to conserve bandwidth while allowing the user to select which images are "worth" seeing.

2) It's bad (X)HTML style to specify a height/width which is not the same as the source image. Also, you are relying on the browser's own scaler to deal with the minification, which will have unknown -- but usually poor -- quality.

I hadn't thought of any of that. Of course, now it's pretty obvious.

 

[GG-Duo]

you can also do it in Photoshop CS

 

[olimario]

I didn't know CS had that feature. How nice.
PICASA works WONDERFULLY! What an awesome program.