Who wants super clean gally's submitted daily?

[GeorgeTH]

Originally posted by selena
~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.

Hi, Selena!

You seem to be doing many things the similar hard way I'm still taking...

1. GASS - first time I downloaded it (about 3 years ago on Windows ME) - the install totally crashed my computer (actually had to re-install my OS!) When I posted this experiene on GFY I had a very rude reply by DarkSoft and ever since we're on bad terms.. Pitty - always thought it might be a good product to try.

2. ROBOFORM - great! Couldn't do without it!!!

3. Cropping thumbs... Yeah: I do that from time to time, specially with sponsor content (hate it if the watermarking is showing), but otherwise I use ThumbsPlus, which (your question) makes the thumbs same aspect as the pictures (no cropping or the likes), hence sometimes for effect I pick 2 or 3 pictures afterwards for which I manually make a cropped thumb the same size. All ThumbsPlus is offering are detailed settings (size w/h, compression, directory, etc.) and the image enhancement works really well, so I usually end up with all thumbs well below 4k at 160+ pixels...

4. 2257: I guess I might have over 20 sites in my submit list who are requiring this link already - even though I don't put it onto my galleries as a link (outgoing link count by scripts), but have the complete URL on my pages: Sofar I figure who ever really wants to see my 2257 statement might as well copy this URL into their browser.

5. ... tell me about a Free Site a day - I'm really struggling with them... A simple TGP gallery and an updated gallery on my main site fit easily into a day, but a free site still takes me that long that I have to drop the tgp gallery...

Nice 'talking' to you!