Dreamweaver thumbnail ???

[Platform]

Just a quick question:

How/Is there a auto-thumnail function in Dreamweaver MX 2004 "I can't find it

 

[ChicoWeb]

None that I know of.. Check out Photoshop batch jobs.

 

[Platform]

None that I know of.. Check out Photoshop batch jobs.

Just saw that in Frontpage........don't like the rest of the program But that function works very good

 

[pulsewidth947]

My 2¢

If you are creating thumbnails of pictures for a website, I highly recommend creating them yourself (with a little help from Photoshop actions). Creating thumbnails yourself allows you artistic license - instead of just having a resized version of the picture, why not crop an interesting part out and use that. The key is finding something thats going to attract the eye and make someone want to click the thumbnail

If you need standard resized thumbnails, or the thumbs arent going to become buttons, just ignore the above

 

[Platform]

If you are creating thumbnails of pictures for a website, I highly recommend creating them yourself (with a little help from Photoshop actions). Creating thumbnails yourself allows you artistic license - instead of just having a resized version of the picture, why not crop an interesting part out and use that. The key is finding something thats going to attract the eye and make someone want to click the thumbnail

If you need standard resized thumbnails, or the thumbs arent going to become buttons, just ignore the above

Well for the moment I have done the all manually in PS

But what do you mean by PS actions..........tell me how ...just use the as links to the actual pic

 

[realityisterror]

But what do you mean by PS actions..........tell me how

I can try to give you a little run through...

Ok, first open just some sample image. Make sure you can see the Actions Palette (it's usually with History Window-->Actions)
Click the "Create New Action" on the palette, name it, and click ok.
It starts to record everything you do and save it as the action.
From there just resize as normal... (Image-->Image Size...) and Save it
And when you're done click Stop in the palette, and you're basically done

When you want to use it, open the next image you want to resize, and, with your action selected, click Play, and it'll run through the resize automatically and then prompt you for the save settings

To expedite it even more, you can File-->Automate-->Batch, and you should be able to figure it out from there


Hope that helps,
reality

 

[CanadaRAM]

Alternatively ImageViewer or GraphicConvertor can automatically create thumbnails for an entire folder of images (and HTML pages and linked tables of contents) with their "save catalog as HTML with graphics" options.

 

[iSaint]

Me too!

Just saw that in Frontpage........don't like the rest of the program But that function works very good

I was JUST looking in Dreamweaver for a thumbnail action to no avail. Frontpage did make this easy back in my Windos days. (has it been a year yet?)

I did what ChicoWeb suggested and used Photoshop. It worked fine. I like the idea of getting a part of the pic as the thumbnail, though.

 

[Platform]

I can try to give you a little run through...

Ok, first open just some sample image. Make sure you can see the Actions Palette (it's usually with History Window-->Actions)
Click the "Create New Action" on the palette, name it, and click ok.
It starts to record everything you do and save it as the action.
From there just resize as normal... (Image-->Image Size...) and Save it
And when you're done click Stop in the palette, and you're basically done

When you want to use it, open the next image you want to resize, and, with your action selected, click Play, and it'll run through the resize automatically and then prompt you for the save settings

To expedite it even more, you can File-->Automate-->Batch, and you should be able to figure it out from there


Hope that helps,
reality

Oh.....cool

Thanks a lot