Thumbnail Sizes for TGP Sites (not for the galleries)

[Simon]

Toby - thanks, some good advice again there. I'd like to use larger thumb sizes but not too large, for all the reasons you've mentioned.

NYJ - thanks, personal feedback is good too. I don't like the overly large thumbs on TGP sites either, in part since the sites that use those always seem more interested in sending you off to someone else's TGP site instead of the gallery you're hoping to see when you click that big thumb. I'm thinking some surfers will get wary of the really big thumb TGPs eventually.

A.J. Angel - that might be about the right compromise size for me too, but I need to decide on that vertical versus horizontal orientation for the thumbs.

Ideally I'd like to keep my options open, so that I can have a page with both photo and video gallery thumbs mixed up together, but let the surfers have an option to see only photo or only video galleries if they want to do that.

Which I think will mean either using the same size and orientation for all thumbs, or maybe storing more than one thumbnail size per gallery (which I think TGPX can do) so that when the surfer switches to a "video galleries only" choice I can show them a page with thumbnails better suited to videos.

Storing more than one thumbnail size per gallery should also mean that the same galleries can be used to populate a variety of TGP sites with different thumb sizes.

Anyone using multiple thumbnail sizes for the same gallery now?


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[virgohippy]

Originally Posted by Simon

Anyone using multiple thumbnail sizes for the same gallery now?

Outside of TGP context, I do this.

I have about 4 dimension sets, 4 horizontal and 4 vertical. They're based on 2/3 and 3/4 ratios, at 25 pixels for my unit of measure.

75x100 - 100x75
100x150 - 150x100
150x200 - 200x150
200x300 - 300x200

I trim off an even number of pixels from those dimensions for margins/borders, center weighted, and they're ready to go.

This system works very well with a modular design. If you want help with layouts, I can show you how to work with a modular design system.

Since I started using this system, I've never had to fuss over thumbs, the solutions seem to magically find themselves in every situation I've had to deal with.

Edit: I forgot to mention, I don't like to crop by hand, so vertical pictures use vertical dimensions, and horizontals use horizontal.