offline thumbnail mass generator

[m5n6]

Anybody know a good software or source code in php or vb to do the job?

(I don't have access to gd library now)

 

Thanks in advance!

[outdoorgiftshop]

I'm not sure if you have photoshop but I created a droplet where I can throw hundreds of images in photoshop and it automatically resizes them and saves them. That's been the easiest for me.

[Guest]

I use Macromedia Fireworks for doing this, point it at your files, set a maximum width and height, tell it to add either a suffix or a prefix to the thumbnails it creates ie tn_ or _tn, select the optimisation type ie jpg or gif and specify compression settings for them and click go.

 

Takes a couple of minutes to a couple of hundred fules, depends mostly upon the initial image size.

 

When you are done you can save the setting as a script and run them at any future time.

[m5n6]

Thanks you guys!

 

1 more question,

 

if I have 10 pictures with very differnt sizes,I want to shrink them to the same size, will some pictures become visually bad?

[outdoorgiftshop]

Yea it could if they are not the same ratio as your set size. They can look very distorted depending on how far off the ratio is. I would suggest either set a width or a height contraint instead of both

[m5n6]

many thanks!