Making Thumbs

[johnnybg]

Originally Posted by Toby

I try to find a compromise between doing all thumbs by hand and using Arles. Let's take one of the sample galleries Ramster posted as an example. http://www.nshoneys.com/hosted1/hc/f....php?id=100031
I would still use Arles for this gallery, but I would have set the thumb size such that the watermark in the lower part of the image would have been cropped, which would have also cropped a little off the top. I would still need to go back and manually thumb images 7 thru 10 to get more girl and less bedspread.

That said, the focus of most of my galleries is stockings & heels or boots, so I want mostly full body shots rather than focusing on big tits, not that I have anything against big tits.

I'd say that about a fourth of the time I make all the thumbs manually, a fourth of the time I use all Arles thumbs, and the remaining half end up with a mix of both.

It's all a matter of ending up with nice looking thumbs that are going to make your galleries more appealing to your target audience than the galleries of your competitors.

You can edit an area of picture in Arles, which will be on thumbnail, before actual creation of thumbs. Just go to image browser, press F7, set aspect ratio, make a rectangle and then pg up/down for other images.