The technique I described is useful only if you don't care what part of the image is being thrown away. In my case it doesn't matter too much. I mean, it doesn't really affect to me.
But. Let's just say you have horizontal and vertical images taken with you digital camera (in my case), and you hae your thumbnails set to width=100 and height=85. With the horizontal ones there's no problem, but with vertical ones you can be not fully satisfied with the results. In this case Express Thumbnail Creator cuts the Thumbnail from the center. That can be annoying for someone who wants to show a person, ha ha ha, you may get someone headless. Randall is right in this case. Fortunatelly for me this is not the case.(I believe so, I'll need to check back my galleries ;-) ) The main advantage I have found this way is I can use a mmm... 'frame', for the thumbnails, and I hadn't to worry for it to fix in a vertical or horizontal thumbnail. www.sistemedic.com/cgi-bin/gals/phtls_imgs.pl Anyway, it works for me, and it may work for other. I'm sure there are other different ways to do it, and some of them will be much better. So I'll keep trying new ways. About ImageMagik, last tiem I visited the site I read it was commercial. Maybe I was wrong. I need to go back and check, thanks for the advise. However, I worked on my galleries trying to make them the less Module-Dependant possible, at least with non common Modules. I was thinking in making my script available someday. Thanks Randal ------------- I need to say it in case somebody visits my gallery. The script was originally written by Mike Wheeler, I modified it to give it some extra features. ----------- -rm- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Randal L. Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 9:25 AM Subject: Re: Thumb-nailing Pic's > >>>>> "Ramon" == Ramon Chavez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ramon> I meant that this program cuts rectangles from the original > Ramon> images, all of them with the same proportions. Like if you were > Ramon> cutting cookies from the paste for baking (lol). It then > Ramon> resizes all the resulting images to fit your thumbnail size. > > Ramon> You're right. There's some info left out, but I believe it's > Ramon> better than deforming. > > I've found that technique to be less useful. It really takes a human > to understand what part of an image can be thrown away. Simply > scaling the image proportionally so that the maximum dimension is less > than your space seems to be better. > > Ramon> I was about to try ImageMagik, but I found it's commercial, and I don't > Ramon> think my application is worth of it. > > No. ImageMagick is clearly not commercial. Where did you see that? > > -- > Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> > Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. > See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
