Message-Id: <mailto:199603112139.PAA16476@library.wustl.edu> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 14:35:34 -0700 From: Visual Resource Center <mailto:vrc@SPOT.COLORADO.EDU> Subject: Re: thumbnails To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
I.E.>I have a suggestion for point number three. For the web, you only need one
>size/resolution. Having one size image that fits your full browser page,
>that same image file can be reduced by the browser to fit whatever
>parameters you put in with the html code. Does this make sense to you.
I'm really not sure how good of an idea this actually is. Granted you can write the HTML to size an image either down or up (with obvious quality loss for going up), but the problem is that you still have to send the entire image file. So, if you have a large web image (8" x 8" mailto:@72dpi) and you only want a small thumbnail version of it (2" x 2" mailto:@72dpi) you still have to send the large image. Of course this does save on file management for you, but I don't think your users would appreciate the time delay.
Just an opinion,
Aaron Howell Visual Resource Center College of Architecture and Planning University of Colorado
>David wrote:
>
>Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 08:24:12 +1200
>From: "David Adams" <mailto:David.Adams@natlib.govt.nz>
>To: mailto:photo-cd@info.kodak.com
>Subject: pcd file conversion
>Message-ID: <mailto:4792DD1EE4@baxter.natlib.govt.nz>
>
>The National Library of New Zealand is embarking on the project of
>creating a Digital Image Library.
>I expect to use Kodak pcd files stored on either CD or Hard Disk with
>the thumbnails and screen resolution images seperated from the 'print
>quality images'.
>My methodology is as follows;
>1. Scan original (using Agfa Horizon+ flatbed scanner)
>2. Create the "Imagepac" pcd file
>3. Take the thumbnails and screen res. images and convert them to
>JPEG file for online use and web access.
>
>I am having difficulty converting the pcd file in photoshop; when I
>try to convert to any other format this message is given;
>Unable to access this file. Please verify security priveledges on
>the network drive.
>Any solution to this?
>
>I have found the Getty Art History Information Programme
>(http://www.ahip.getty.edu/intro_imaging/0-Cover2.html) web site an excellent
>documentation for Digital Image Library building, are there any
>others?
>
>
>I have a suggestion for point number three. For the web, you only need one
>size/resolution. Having one size image that fits your full browser page,
>that same image file can be reduced by the browser to fit whatever
>parameters you put in with the html code. Does this make sense to you.
>
>George Holmes
>Archer M Huntington Art Gallery
>The University of Texas
>
>Ph# 512.471.9194
>Fax#512.471.7023
>
>"I will not tolerate intolerance", George Holmes...........