Thumbnails for a Web Site

Large Allen wrote in
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Sorry if this seems off topic, but I really need some help. I need to create a family website with various pages; like Vacation05, FamilyReunion06, etc.

Got all my pics on my pc. Very large though, so I thought I’d make thumbnails for the web pages to keep down on download time for family members.

I’ve got a LOT of pictures.

I have an old copy of Photoshop, 5.5 I believe, and I’ve been grabbing each photo and resizing the image and saving it in the thumbnail subdirectory.

This is a long an drawn out process and I’ll eventually get done if I have to do it this way, but I’d sure like some auto resizing for all pics in the directory.

Is there some way to do this within Photoshop, or, if not, does anyone know of another application that could do this for me?
Thanks for your help.

Hit F1 read up on Actions and Batching, need more info try google

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Kingdom wrote:

Large Allen wrote

Sorry if this seems off topic, but I really need some help. I need to create a family website with various pages; like Vacation05, FamilyReunion06, etc.

Got all my pics on my pc. Very large though, so I thought I’d make thumbnails for the web pages to keep down on download time for family members.

I’ve got a LOT of pictures.

I have an old copy of Photoshop, 5.5 I believe, and I’ve been grabbing each photo and resizing the image and saving it in the thumbnail subdirectory.

This is a long an drawn out process and I’ll eventually get done if I have to do it this way, but I’d sure like some auto resizing for all pics in the directory.

Is there some way to do this within Photoshop, or, if not, does anyone know of another application that could do this for me?
Thanks for your help.

Hit F1 read up on Actions and Batching, need more info try google

Sounds good. Even looked good initially, but it’s all some alien gibberish to me. Like in Batch processing: I’m supposed to choose an action; Large Rectangle Button, Large Round Button, etc. etc.

Call me stupid, but what kind of "action" is Large Round Button ?? Souinds like a thing, not an action.

Maybe someone else would like to help out with more details.

Thanks for your help.

Large Allen wrote in
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Kingdom wrote:

Large Allen wrote

Sorry if this seems off topic, but I really need some help. I need to create a family website with various pages; like Vacation05, FamilyReunion06, etc.

Got all my pics on my pc. Very large though, so I thought I’d make thumbnails for the web pages to keep down on download time for family members.

I’ve got a LOT of pictures.

I have an old copy of Photoshop, 5.5 I believe, and I’ve been grabbing each photo and resizing the image and saving it in the thumbnail subdirectory.

This is a long an drawn out process and I’ll eventually get done if I have to do it this way, but I’d sure like some auto resizing for all pics in the directory.

Is there some way to do this within Photoshop, or, if not, does anyone know of another application that could do this for me?
Thanks for your help.

Hit F1 read up on Actions and Batching, need more info try google

Sounds good. Even looked good initially, but it’s all some alien gibberish to me. Like in Batch processing: I’m supposed to choose an action; Large Rectangle Button, Large Round Button, etc. etc.
Call me stupid, but what kind of "action" is Large Round Button ?? Souinds like a thing, not an action.

Maybe someone else would like to help out with more details.
Thanks for your help.

video tutorials
http://www.basicphotoshop.com/basicps.htm

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Granny typed:
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I’ve been
grabbing each photo and resizing the image and saving it in the thumbnail subdirectory.
does
anyone know of another application that could do this for me?

I Prefer Quick N Easy! I use:
http://www.fotki.com/
I upload my originals into albums set them to private and give the family the addresses and passwords. fotki thumbnails, resizes, has a slide show and make the originals available in case my family wants to grab them and make prints. I am not associated in any way with them except to use their services.
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Granny typed:
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Photoshop = File–>Automate–>Web Photo Gallery.

Or I gleaned this from another NG at http://tinyurl.com/gss9m (message 43 might be helpful also) :

"So that others benefit from the rollup, it looks like the following dozen are the suggested programs for those frugalers among us who create web pages of our photographs using Windows freeware.

THE TOP THREE SUGGESTED WINDOWS WEB ALBUM FREEWARE CREATORS: irfanview http://www.irfanview.com/
xnview: http://perso.orange.fr/pierre.g/xnview/enfeatures.html jalbum http://jalbum.net/

OTHER SUGGESTED WINDOWS WEB ALBUM CREATOR FREEWARES:
porta http://www.stegmann.dk/mikkel/porta/
iwebalbum http://www.eunq.com/index.html
yopow http://home.hccnet.nl/s.j.francke/yopow/yopow.htm
ethumbs http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ethumbe.htm imagewalker. http://www.imagewalker.com
imcat http://www.nulidex.com/products/image_catalog.shtml thumbawumba http://www.snapfiles.com/get/thumba.html
powertoys
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppow ertoys.mspx freshview http://www.freshdevices.com/freshview.html

A SCRIPT TO DO THE JOB KINDLY SUBMITTED BY CHRIS JOHNSON: Sample http://cfaj.freeshell.org/web/examples/cbronline.jpg.shtml Stylesheet http://cfaj.freeshell.org/web/examples/img.css Script http://cfaj.freeshell.org/web/examples/mkthumbindex.txt

I hope this recap summarizes for future users so they don’t go through what I went through just to create a web page with thumbnails.

barb"

hope this helps
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"Granny"