Creating thumbnails

[New Blue]

What's the best program for creating thumbnails from multiple files?

I currently use Photoshop and do it manually, but there must be a quicker easy way.

All the best

Blue

[Bradderzzz]

The two that i have used

Arles :- (more for creating pages as well)

http://www.digitaldutch.com/arles/

or

Eyebatch:-

http://www.atalasoft.com/Eyebatch/

For making bulk thumbnails nothing beats it (imo). Superb program has any option you would want.

[Geezer]

http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/

Best of all its free ;)

[mysatin]

A free solution is ImageMagick + a batch file

[nizla]

http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/

Best of all its free ;)

:gold:

[New Blue]

Thanks everyone!

:)

[rogue]

i'd go for arles as well, i used ezthumbs for a while and although its very good, arles is soooo much better

[WordsforHire]

I use mihov image resizer lol, free, quick and very easy. converts from jpgs to other files and vicey versa :)

[Sexvilly]

What's the best program for creating thumbnails from multiple files?

I currently use Photoshop and do it manually, but there must be a quicker easy way.

All the best

Blue

yep, there is... Photoshop -> Actions, then duplicate set of actions for how many pictures you need to do at a time

[peasepud]

In Photoshop you could just create an action as said above but then create a droplet using that which you drag complete directories into.

Personally though I just use a custom function created in php, run it and it will search the directories you list for pictures without thumbnails and create them. Good thing about it is that you dont need to worry about the original size, it will resize them to a maximum width or height whichever is hit first while constraining the proportions. You can set the naming conventions, sizes and rotate etc without any hassle.

[SmithsMedia]

The two that i have used

Arles :- (more for creating pages as well)

http://www.digitaldutch.com/arles/



can't live without this mate well worth playing around with :)

[JT]

http://www.neowise.com/etc/

[Jel]

real graphic designers use notepad

[Simon]

Thumbplus still makes some of the best thumbs and has a really easy to hack template system for making gallery pages.

find the .tpt files, rename them to .html, edit in Dreamweaver and you're off.

www.cerious.com