steelrazer opened this issue on Apr 07, 2004 ยท 11 posts
steelrazer posted Wed, 07 April 2004 at 11:01 PM
THUMBNAILS!!! swear,.... i can skin a molecule off a gnats ass in photoshop, but for the life of me i can't figure out consistently how to get a thumbnail under 15kb from one of my vue renders!! HELP!!!! no prob getting the render under the limbo stick to post, but the straight jacket is always at the ready at thumbnail time...any suggestions....please, ...the sweet balm of a solution... seriously (and i was being very serious already..) anybody with some help would find purchase in the pantheon of my favorites. more info? ....ask away. please, don't let this be my waterloo!(i do windows..even the glass kind!) thank you, thank you, thank you!! (in advance and on reciept!) steelrazer (the humbled one)
numanoid posted Thu, 08 April 2004 at 12:05 AM
What are you saving the thumbnail as? Jpg, Gif, .....? With jpg and gif files you can set the level of compression. Um, don't know what else to say, so I'll shut up now.
Parkie posted Thu, 08 April 2004 at 2:23 AM
Hi, If you re reducing your large render to a thumbnail then you will not really get a good image. I do a render at the thumbnail size, save as a BMP and then use Paint shop pro to JPG it as it is easier to see what size the image is. Cheers Neil.
lingrif posted Thu, 08 April 2004 at 7:02 AM
Render your scene in Vue at 200x150. Save it as a .jpg. I usually set my compression at around 90% but you may have to play around with it to get the right size. Hope this helps.
iloco posted Thu, 08 April 2004 at 7:42 AM
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niandji posted Thu, 08 April 2004 at 9:06 AM
Have you tried the freeware program 'Easy Thumbnails'? All my thumbs are made with that, you set the size you want and can adjust the quality as well.
steelrazer posted Thu, 08 April 2004 at 9:49 AM
thanks for the different methods. i will try them and let y'all know the results. frankly one thing that i never thought of was the "save for web" option in PS. the method of rendering a small image in vue seems to be viable also. i will report back if my sanity is saved. thanks again.
steelrazer posted Thu, 08 April 2004 at 10:58 AM
Just to wrap up this thread: i appreciate all the great suggestions. i used "save for web" in photoshop. it turned out to be the most painless for my purposes and i can fine tune it easily. i truly appreciate your taking the time to help me out here. i feel "72 degrees in my head" again. by the way, the piece that i posted so painlessly, thanks to y'all is "Waking the Ancients" . again, thanks! steelrazer (bill)
The-Slinger posted Mon, 12 April 2004 at 7:04 AM
I use Corel PhotoPaint for all my thumbnails ... The jpg option offers a great degree of flexibility, and the estimated size display is pretty accurate. Hope this helps.
ckeyes posted Mon, 12 April 2004 at 11:39 AM
Is there some actual use for them? Thanks, Carl
niandji posted Mon, 12 April 2004 at 11:51 AM
You need a thumbnail if you want to post a picture in the galleries here. Well, you don't actually need one, just that pictures without thumbanails don't get as many views as those with them!