What Graphics Software do you use and why?

[Sebastian]

Originally posted by Linkster
Ditto on that question about movie thumbs....

I also am looking for the best program to take a batch of
pics and make thumbs and html single pic pages from templates at the same time

ThumbNailer from smalleranimals.com generates thumbs, galleries and pic pages from templates. Although neat PHP scripts are more flexible and you can reuse pics and thumbs easily.

The problem with movies is, that pretty often the first frame is not suitable as thumb. The frame copy function in Irfanview works, but it's hard to navigate to the frame you want to copy, and you need to batch resize and crop the results.