Using thumbnails

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I've seen web pages that have 2 dozen thumbnails on a
single page. When I put only 12 on a page I get a report
that says the page will take over 30 sec. to load. Is it
the size of the thumbnail that's important? I don't want
to make them TOO small. Is this normal? If so, then
maybe I should just try putting only 9 on a page. Any
other solutions?

Thanks,
Pat
 
It is more an issue of the size of the image file
rather than the physical size of the thumbnail image.

Try compressing the actual file, or reducing the color depth
with an image editor, which will reduce the file size.


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I've seen web pages that have 2 dozen thumbnails on a
single page. When I put only 12 on a page I get a report
that says the page will take over 30 sec. to load. Is it
the size of the thumbnail that's important? I don't want
to make them TOO small. Is this normal? If so, then
maybe I should just try putting only 9 on a page. Any
other solutions?

Thanks,
Pat
 
Pat said:
I've seen web pages that have 2 dozen thumbnails on a
single page. When I put only 12 on a page I get a report
that says the page will take over 30 sec. to load. Is it
the size of the thumbnail that's important? I don't want
to make them TOO small. Is this normal? If so, then
maybe I should just try putting only 9 on a page. Any
other solutions?
Click to expand...
Google for "Web Page Generator", it makes an HTML thumbnail page for you,
it's small, user friendly and let's you edit the finishted product.
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3k is a good size for a thumbnail file.

Putting small pictures on the page would make the page
to slow to load.


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Thanks!

Bear with me . . . this is my first web site effort.

What I'm doing now is changing the image size to 200 or
300 pixels wide -- if you make it much smaller than that,
then why bother to click on the thumbnail "to see a
larger view"? In Photoshop I'm clicking on "file, save
for web" which saves the image in a low quality -- around
3K size. Still too big?

Would it be better to just put small pictures on a page
and not have them link to a larger file?

It's http://www.caninesolutionsaz.com/photo_gallery.htm
if you want to check it out.

Pat
 
I read the tutorial (very helpful) and checked the photos
on your website . . . they're great and both the
thumbnail and bigger photos are very sharp. My image
sizes and resolution are OK, so I still don't understand
how you can put so many on one page. Could it be that
I'm using a theme in FP 2002 and that increases the file
size?

Thanks so much for any help.

Pat
 
It's a good idea to try different thumbnail sizes to see how small you have
to go to make the picture hard to see. There's no one good size - it depends
on what you're showing. When you get to one that's too small - then take the
next size up and go with that.

When I was looking at a lot of different artist sites, to prepare for making
my own, I was amazed at how much a 100pixel wide thumbnail can show. Often
that or 125 pixels is enough. All you want with a thumbnail is to give the
viewer enough idea of the picture to decide whether or not to view the
larger photo.

Also, before resizing the height and width pixels, resize the dpi to 72 or
96. 72dpi is the mac standard, so I use 96dpi since most people use PCs. And
be sure to make each thumbnail from a lossless file format like .tiff. Don't
keep changing the sizes of .jpeg files or the image quality will
deteriorate. HTH.
 
Another technique for creating smaller more visible thumbs is to use
just a portion of the larger image for the thumb. No one says the thumb
and larger image have to be exactly the same image.

Select a representative portion of the large image to use for the thumb.
That smaller cropped portion of the larger image will be more visible
when reduced to the small size of a thumb.
 
I think thumbnails have defaulted to being simply smaller images of the
full-size because of all the thumbnail making programs ;-)
People don't think of them as Icons, which is what they are, but as small
"full size" pictures.
IMHO
 
you are certainly right about the common perception of thumbnails being
little mirrors of the larger image- but that doesn't mean you can't
think different or that that particular approach always makes sense.
iow-use what fits your own needs- why create a thumbnail with lots of
dead space that makes the image subject imperceptible at small sizes.
imho- sometimes better as a small but clearly visible and representative
teaser of what lays ahead.
 
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