RE: Feature Request - Thumbnailing

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Now Now ... c'mon, we're all trying to get this thing to work as best as possible.  

For my part I'd love to see something that will do this without having to use an external program, but in certain cases this just isn't possible, as Milan has pointed out. and this will be the overriding factor in any solution

Loxly - you're quite right in everything you say

Just to add to the conversation somewhat so that other users may benefit from other's experience: I have been a professional web designer for some years now and I have found that the best solution to any pictorial issues is to look at your requirements for the pictures.  If you are only trying to demonstrate a simple item, product or whatever, then a 250pixel x 250pixel square image @ 20-30K will be more than enough to give the user the idea.  Photoshop is capable of sorting that out very quickly from your original and OSC is capable of displaying the resized images at an acceptable speed on a 56K modem.   Check out the keep image proportions contribution which will not alter the aspect of your image.

If, like Loxly, you are a photographer, then clearly a better quality image is required and loading speed may well become an issue.  Then thumbnails could be necessary.

I have no problem with members selling their excellent contributions, but please give other less experienced members the option of choosing the correct method for them - in this case it may be that Milan's solution costing $15 might be the cost effective answer.  However,  I would also recommend that everyone should try a professional package to carry out complicated image processing.  there are quite a few.  I use Photoshop and Fireworks and thumbs are batch processed quite effectively and turn out at  around 1-4K each depending on the image.  

None of my OSC sites need thumbs because the images displayed are all around 20K ... but then I have never had any customers wanting photographic sites.  For those that do, check out vvgallery in the image contributions, this might be just what you're looking for.

All the best to everyone
Stuart