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I am making a website containing all the pictures taken at my School Prom. I have been sent loads of images that i am to use. The thing is these images are large like 300kb. If i was to have them all on one page, for every user who connects would have to wait for each image to load and basically use all my bandwidth limit.

I thought i would use different pages and thumbnails. The thumbnails are just the same size in kb as the full pictures even tho i have changed the resoltuion of them. Is there any way of reducing the size of them without editing each on in paint to make them smaller ???

Thanks

There's a great PHP script package called Gallery. You can find it at Sourceforge. You can upload an entire directory of images at once, and add captions, keywords.

I've got it running: http://www.pattheotter.com

Jive wrote:
> As Chips said, use the batch editor in PSP, if you've got Photoshop
> that also has a batch editor to make thumbnails, easiest way I find
> is to go File > Automate > Web Photo Gallery - select source and
> destination and let it create it's own pages, then discard the
> majority of the pages it creates but use the thumbnail pics.

I do not see this on the Paint Shop Pro i just got. isee the batch thing but dont know how to use it

Microchips wrote:
> If you have Paint Shop Pro, it has a batch editing feature.

yeah i see the batch thing, and if you could help me and shoe me what i would like to do. ive been messing with it and have no idea what im doing

THANKS

Nice one, thanks, one day i might help you guys if i was to know any knowledge.

Im just gettin myself a copy of paint shop now. IF your assuming that im downloading it and not going to travel on a bus to a shop miles away to buy a peice of software for £50 that i will hardly use then your ..................

Or use some gallery software to make all the pages for you ;)

Just checked and so does IrfranView, methinks there be loads of free programs out there that do the jobs he needs :)

Macromedia Fireworks also has a batch function which allows you to decrease the res and size.

As Chips said, use the batch editor in PSP, if you've got Photoshop that also has a batch editor to make thumbnails, easiest way I find is to go File > Automate > Web Photo Gallery - select source and destination and let it create it's own pages, then discard the majority of the pages it creates but use the thumbnail pics.

I'd also suggest that if you have Photoshop (I'm assuming PSP has the same function) that you save all your pictures to web format.

File > Save for Web - you can create a batch file to do this but I can't remember how you set it up, anyway, load up a picture, do the Save for Web and select medium or low, the lower the resolution the bigger the picture compression is (compression maybe the wrong word there) and the faster the picture will load in.

Basically I've done loads of photos which I've uploaded to my site which normally come off of my camera at about 500k, these compress down to about 100k :)

Much better for people viewing on dial up and your bandwidth.

If you have Paint Shop Pro, it has a batch editing feature.

I am making a website containing all the pictures taken at my School Prom. I have been sent loads of images that i am to use. The thing is these images are large like 300kb. If i was to have them all on one page, for every user who connects would have to wait for each image to load and basically use all my bandwidth limit.

I thought i would use different pages and thumbnails. The thumbnails are just the same size in kb as the full pictures even tho i have changed the resoltuion of them. Is there any way of reducing the size of them without editing each on in paint to make them smaller ???

Thanks