"BCA03"
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Apr 21, 2003, 5:21 PM
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"Marcel Kuijper" <zoepetier@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "BCA03" wrote:
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> > I would say firstly not to use BMP's for web sites, but convert them to
> > jpeg's.
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> Now *that* much I knew! :-))
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> > Irfanview is a pretty good all round tool for doing certain things with
> > images, and it is free, available from http://www.irfanview.com/
>
> Just downloaded it and the plugins are coming in as I type this.
> Thanks for the tip.
> There was a time I knew how to do stuff like this and a little voice in
the
> back of my head keeps telling me that I used MS Paint for that job, but
> the current version sure won't co-operate.
> A simple question of shrinking the image and renaming it, then linking
> it to the original size on a new page. But the shrinking process seems
> to have become a little difficult to do.
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> > It will allow you to convert a folder to thumbnails, which you can then
> > select all and copy/paste them to a new location etc.
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> That's what I want.
>
> > Personally I process each image individually, and make thumbs around 300
> by
> > 225 pixels ( Example page
> > http://www.pilotslounge.co.uk/BCA/KSLC_KDEN/Salt_Lake_to_Denver.htm )
> > but if you have a programme that will do batch processing, that can be a
> lot
> > faster.
>
> I was thinking of something smaller, but 300x225 is good. But I'm gonna
make
> them clickable, so a larger image appears. I like sites like that.
> At least now, with your help AGAIN <g>, I have something to work with.
>
> Thanks Chris.
>
> Marcel
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>
Your very welcome Marcel.
Couple of addit. bits of information FWIW.
It helps if you have an idea of the size of screen resolutions that people
are going to be using when viewing your thumbnails page. I *guess* that most
ppl use a resolution of 1024 x 768 Pixels. I then go on the theory that it
make sense to fill the width of the screen, but don't go over it so ppl
don't have to scroll horizontally. So I divide that width by three, and
subtract a bit. I let the programme I use to keep the perspective of the
images, so by choosing 300 as the width, it makes them 225 high. This lets
me have three neat columns that will almost fill the screen if ppl are using
1024 x 768 as their resolution. If I wanted 4 columns, I would reduce the
width of each Thumb to around 225.
It also depends on the screen resolution you are using in FS, and thus the
resolution of your original images. If you are using 1024 x 768 in the game,
and your images come out at that size, you will find that if you follow
Bill's advice and reduce them to 256x148 you will find that the images are
"squashed" and aircraft in them will look funny. ( Sorry Bill ) The correct
size when reducing an image of width 1024 to 256 is 256 x 192 to keep the
same perspective.
Last thing to bear in mind. FS screen grabs often have a lot of nothing
happening in a lot of the image, and reducing to too small a thumb means
that ppl wont really be able to see much by looking at the thumb. That is
why I try not to make mine too small, and instead use careful compression
( most of the time ) to keep the thumbs that bit larger, whilst the file
sizes are that bit smaller so they don't take too long to download for ppl
on Slowdem's.
Phew, that's a lot of words to explain what is basically a simple thing.
Second thing Marcel, those images on my page are clickable, and will display
the full size image. One was not linked earlier, and it may well be you
tried that one and that one only. You had a 20 to 1 chance of hitting it,
but with your recent luck, that might just have happened ;-))
Gimme a shout if you need any help with Irfanview.
Rgds,
Chris J
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