~nods thoughtfully while reading what GeorgeTH has to say~
Thumbs are what kill me time wise. I make them by hand for each gallery with Photoshop. I'd much *rather* have a quicker way of doing it, but those Thumbs generator programs don't fit how I build. I might want to zoom in on a detail or something, and doing thumbs by hand is the only way I know how to do that.
Trust me, that is not the ideal way of doing things. You don't want to know how long it can take me to build a gallery. And I near-weep at the notion of a free site every day.
A couple of software things I use is GASS for gallery duplication. I use it in conjunction with RoboForm.
I'm going to drop links for both of them. I hope it is okay to do that. I'm not trying to be a re-seller on you, just telling you what works for me.
http://www.darksoftcomputers.com/gass/
http://www.roboform.com/
GeorgeTH, when you use this Thumbs program, does it give you an ability to crop and zoom, or does it just take the original and shrink it down to the size you specify?
This is a footnote to the converation, but as I have been submitting today, I came across the 2nd TGP on my submit list that now requires a 2257 link on the galleries.