Thumb Nail Images

[Debora A. Orf]

>Another bonehead question from me...
>
>Can anyone please direct me to instructions on how to create "thumb 
>nail" images out of regular .gif files?  I saw mention of this 
>somewhere but have no idea where.
>
>Please respond to me (not web4lib).  If anyone else is interested, 
>I'll post to the list.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Damon Jaggars
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>Damon E. Jaggars
>Iona College Libraries
>E-mail: DJaggars at iona.edu
>Voice: (914) 633-2000 x4248
>FAX: (914) 633-2608
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>

Its rather easy.  I did it with a windows 3.1 program called print shop pro.
(shareware by the way....) 

Basically with psp you:
1) Open gif file and convert said graphic to jpg (easier to convert colours
in jpg) (do a save-as operation on it)
2) Increase its colours to 16 million
3) 'resample' the image down to thumbnail size
4) save new image as your thumbnail.

5) serve new thumbnail to the webserver
6) link the img tag to the thumbnail, with the larger picture as the
destination.

If you look at:

http://www.win.org/library/about/abloctel.htm

i did this with photos of our branches.


If you have any questions, feel free to ask me!

Debora A. Orf

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