Date   : Fri, 03 Jun 2005 12:25:33 +0000
From   : Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
Subject: Re: Picture and thumbnail sizes

On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 10:59 +0100, Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:
> > Message-ID: <1117583073.15141.98.camel@...>
> So, I'm thinking of a browsable structure that has two thumbnails
> for each picture - something 128x96 pixels 4K size displayed on
> the index page, something bigger, to "zoom" in to a picture, but
> still sensibly small in filesize, and the raw original.

Well you don't necessarily need all resolutions of an image. Sometimes
(particularly with PCB shots) the medium-res version is useless anyway.
Sometimes there's no advantage in having the high-res version online; it
just wastes diskspace and bandwith. 

I think what I'm aiming for here is that the 'view' part when a
thumbnail is clicked on opens the image in the default res, but there'll
also be a link to any other resolutions available.

Unfortunately that means rewriting my config handling routines, so I
think I'll get version 1 out the door first then do that :)

I'm thinking that I also want to make it possible for the thumbnail to
be an interesting part of the larger image if needed, rather than it
always being a scaled-down copy of the larger image. I'm seen a few
galleries do that to good effect, but far as I'm aware they've all been
hand-crafted...

cheers

Jules