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08/27/2002 02:27:20 PM · #1 |
I'd really like to get an easy way of publishing snapshots to the Web. I can fiddle with photos, and tweak them, rename them, and do all sorts of publishing; I'm a developer by trade. However, thinking through the design of a utility for taking all the photos in a directory, resizing them to a web-friendly format, generating thumbnails, and HTML to display them made me think that someone has done it before.
As an example, I spent hours resizing recent photos of a wedding, adding captions, and I've not even created thumbs or an HTML format for it. I find my self putting off the task as something formiddable. Given that a good share of my viewers won't have broadband, I'd love to find a quick and easy way to get all of 'em out there.
I'd like to be able to take a directory of photos in a program, and do the following:
1) Generate 1 set of copies of every photo in the directory that have a resolution of 72 dpi and a maximum longest edge of 640 pixels. Not every photo requires post processing. These would be the display pictures.
2) Generate 1 set of copies that have a resolution of 72 dpi and a max longest edge of 160 or 80 pixels. These would be the thumbnails.
3) Generate *simple* HTML table formats to display the thumbnails with a link to the larger photo.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. |
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08/27/2002 02:54:17 PM · #2 |
There are a number of programs that let you auto-generate pages. Photoshop Elements has a bunch of templates (and more in the new version 2). You can save a caption with each of the photos and then go to create a gallery. Then, you choose the file containing the photos and the style, etc. of the gallery and click OK to have it build it all. I don't have an example up right now, but I'll throw one together and post a link if you like.
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08/27/2002 02:57:35 PM · #3 |
| There are many programs out there... here is a link to a few ones available at download.com. Most are cheap, some are even free. |
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08/27/2002 03:03:51 PM · #4 |
I appreciate the guidance; If there is anything of this sort with which folks have personal experience (preference or bad experience) I'd love to get that too.
Thanks again!
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08/27/2002 03:19:25 PM · #5 |
Try QimagePro. They have a 30 day demo and the program is only $30 complete with lifetime updates! It can do batch processing to resize, sharpen, etc. I use it to downsize batches of photos without affecting the quality. It is also an amazing way to print as it can auto-fit photos of any size to maximize paper usage. It can also apply filters to images so you can do global image touch ups (levels with histogram, contrast, staturation, unsharp mask, etc) without affecting the original file.
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08/27/2002 08:22:17 PM · #6 |
| If your web server's storage capacity is not an issue and you do have broadband, and assuming you have control of your web server (Apache right?), then give Gallery a try. I had goals similar to yours, thought my needs were on the desktop (generating thumbs, mid-size, etc. images), but Gallery does this and allows a fair amount of control over the organization of your images too. |
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08/28/2002 12:11:44 AM · #7 |
| PrintShop Pro does all three of the things you asked about... |
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08/28/2002 02:28:21 AM · #8 |
I use Gallery, too. I tested a whole bunch of others but for me this was the best of web based photo albums.
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