I use Thumbs Plus - What do you use?

[the Shemp]

Since 1998 ive used thumbs plus http://www.cerious.com to organize my pics and create all my galleries. I like it because i can bang off 100 galleries on a saturday afternoon, with almost no effort.
My partner, Orgasmics, swears by Arles, but im too old to change. What programs are you using to make your galleries?

Is there some new program out there that im not aware of?

[AbulletAway]

I hate say it but I use FrontPage. I just make a gallery insert the pic, hit the thumbnail button and it resizes to whatever I have set at. It does really nice thumbs and links them for me.

I can see why people would want to do a batch process but to me it seems like waste of time to have the thumbs because you still have to link them all in the page. That would take me forever to do. While now I do it with just a click and it's thumbed and linked.

[the Shemp]

Originally posted by AbulletAway
I hate say it but I use FrontPage. I just make a gallery insert the pic, hit the thumbnail button and it resizes to whatever I have set at. It does really nice thumbs and links them for me.

I can see why people would want to do a batch process but to me it seems like waste of time to have the thumbs because you still have to link them all in the page. That would take me forever to do. While now I do it with just a click and it's thumbed and linked.

wow Bullet, thats amazing. :)

[AbulletAway]

I know it wasn't any help but I just felt like talking to you. I'm lonely.

[the Shemp]

Originally posted by AbulletAway
I know it wasn't any help but I just felt like talking to you. I'm lonely.

Here you go buddy :) http://www.ninaknowsbest.com
http://www.smartcherries.com/artfield_gallery1/images/DSCN5067.jpg

[AbulletAway]

I love the Nina.

Someday, I'll get to meet her and say, "Hi Nina, it's nice to meet you finally." Then I'll passout and have to change my nick again to something like AbulletAway Gone Away or Bullet Been Fainting.

I don't have that pic, I love it! Yet another to add to my Nina Shrine.

[Fluid]

Hey Bullet?
You were saying something about not making many sales before. Have you checked your pages after you do them with front page? I used to get paid very good money to go through pages for an un-named sponsor program and take out all the "&" signs that front page "corrected" to ; & amp (I did it that way to show up on the page).

It finds them in cgi script calls and changes them from text to html which of course, fucks them up. Lots of sponsor codes have the & sign in them. Might be worth checking. I use dream weaver to build pages, and you can turn off that evil function in the preferences menu.

For thumbnailing, I use photoshop batches, and I organize with superjpg, but am seriously considering ACDC because it can look inside zip files without unzipping them.

[Jamdin]

For gallery making, I use CD2HTML.

For html editing, I use CuteHTML

[AbulletAway]

Originally posted by Fluid
Hey Bullet?
You were saying something about not making many sales before. Have you checked your pages after you do them with front page? I used to get paid very good money to go through pages for an un-named sponsor program and take out all the "&" signs that front page "corrected" to ; & amp (I did it that way to show up on the page).

It finds them in cgi script calls and changes them from text to html which of course, fucks them up. Lots of sponsor codes have the & sign in them. Might be worth checking. I use dream weaver to build pages, and you can turn off that evil function in the preferences menu.

For thumbnailing, I use photoshop batches, and I organize with superjpg, but am seriously considering ACDC because it can look inside zip files without unzipping them.


I'll have to check it. Ihave that same thing but I never seem to find anything like that. As soon I wake up a little more I'll Find ya on ICQ and see if you can find any of that shit in a one of my galleries. I think I'm either looking it or it's not there in the version I have.

[MP]

Originally posted by the Shemp
Since 1998 ive used thumbs plus http://www.cerious.com to organize my pics and create all my galleries. I like it because i can bang off 100 galleries on a saturday afternoon, with almost no effort.
My partner, Orgasmics, swears by Arles, but im too old to change. What programs are you using to make your galleries?

Is there some new program out there that im not aware of? I use Expresssoft (http://www.express-soft.com/)

To make my thumbs and link my members pages.

Also use it to re-size pictures.

[the Shemp]

Originally posted by Medium Pimpin
I use Expresssoft (http://www.express-soft.com/)

To make my thumbs and link my members pages.

Also use it to re-size pictures.

that looks very cool :)

[Yngwie]

for making thumbs I use Arles (used to use Gallery Maker Pro)
for the html part I use Macromedia Homesite 5.

then when I'm done making the gallery I use Seach and replace to add the gallery html to the recip templates that I have already made, So it takes like 30 seconds to make the other like 40 mirrors of the gallery with the recips. I then use File Renamer to rename the templates (take 2 seconds)

[the Shemp]

Originally posted by Yngwie
for making thumbs I use Arles (used to use Gallery Maker Pro)
for the html part I use Macromedia Homesite 5.

then when I'm done making the gallery I use Seach and replace to add the gallery html to the recip templates that I have already made, So it takes like 30 seconds to make the other like 40 mirrors of the gallery with the recips. I then use File Renamer to rename the templates (take 2 seconds)

Arles is very popular, i tried it, but i don't like to learn new programs, so i stick with ThumbsPlus. But a large number of webmasters use Arles. :)

[Goblin]

i was using some stuf fi forget what it was but it linked pictures in html page so i had t hand edit all pages i built then soemone helped me wit the settings for arles and thats what im using now :) pretty easy to use once i i got help fixing the link to picture option :)

[virux]

i use easy thumbnals
http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/index.php?2.6

=)

[krazyjosh5]

Well I swear by arles too :P

Thats for making SIMPLE galleries that are just tables w. thumbnails

For nicer galleries, ie http://porn.sexalicous.com/brittany
I use photoshop and just use the slice tool and it creates the html and walla, tgp gallery

also, i have had a bit of success with photoshops web gallery maker... i heard its killer tho if you can master it, you can design templates of any kind and you just insert variables like %thumbmnail% into your custome made HTML

[pussyluver]

Hi Shemp

Still using Thumb Nailer

Been meaning to shop around for something new and better. At least check. Of course I still use Dreamweaver. If I were to buy a spot or traffic for a gallery, it would be hand done.

My first post here.

Known as Newfie at some places and pussyluver on GFY

[the Shemp]

Originally posted by pussyluver
Hi Shemp

Still using Thumb Nailer

Been meaning to shop around for something new and better. At least check. Of course I still use Dreamweaver. If I were to buy a spot or traffic for a gallery, it would be hand done.

My first post here.

Known as Newfie at some places and pussyluver on GFY

Great to see you here :)
a nice addition to our board.

[pussyluver]

Thanks, good to be here.

Automation and organization is a key element to success, esp for the little guy. I’ll be checking the programs listed in this thread. Have a couple of other Qs for you too. They belong in a different thread though.

You certainly make for a good resource to MediumPimpin! Does sucking up help lower prices on gallery positions?

[the Shemp]

Originally posted by pussyluver
Thanks, good to be here.

You certainly make for a good resource to MediumPimpin! Does sucking up help lower prices on gallery positions?

hehe, no it doesnt, but i think we have a great deal in our $90.00 a month GoldPlus program. You get your galleries listed before all the other gold submitters and just after the Full Price paid spots.
:)

[Fluid]

Originally posted by Medium Pimpin
I use Expresssoft (http://www.express-soft.com/)

To make my thumbs and link my members pages.

Also use it to re-size pictures.

hey Kev, that's what you use for the member's area pages isn't it? (on all the MP sites?) I've been looking for something to batch most of the members area for the paysite I have coming.

[XxXotic]

arles (never used anything else) and photoshop

[Thomas1007]

yup Thumbsplus :D
and Damn Nina is Sweet :pound: :bj: :dogs: :clap:

[SirMoby]

I use both Thumbs Plus and Srles but I prefer the thumbnails and image quality from Arles. They both do OK with templates but the thumbs end up being basic tables.

Arles can create HTML pages with a bunch of pictures in seperate directories which is cool.
/originals/1
/originals/2
/originals/3

Thumbs Plus can create HTML from movie files and has this awesome auto-rename function which iwll create setname001.jpg, setname002.jpg and so on.

[Michael O]

I normally only make one site/gallery at a time and for that I use photoshop if I need to make a lot of sites its Arles :)

[the Shemp]

Originally posted by Keyser Soze
I normally only make one site/gallery at a time and for that I use photoshop if I need to make a lot of sites its Arles :)

Wow, Keyser, i like to make 100 at one time, then i dont have to do it again for awhile, hehe

[Michael O]

I tried different thumb programs but size to quality wise I like Photoshop best in Arles the quality is good but the size is 50% higher than Photoshop.

I also use a lot of different templates with different thumbsizes so sometimes it require a bit of cropping.

Just did 200 88x88 preview thumbs for galleries now that is something I would like a program to do for me :)

[the Shemp]

Originally posted by Keyser Soze
I tried different thumb programs but size to quality wise I like Photoshop best in Arles the quality is good but the size is 50% higher than Photoshop.

I also use a lot of different templates with different thumbsizes so sometimes it require a bit of cropping.

Just did 200 88x88 preview thumbs for galleries now that is something I would like a program to do for me :)

Im really surprised. The thumbnail gallery was started in early 1998, you would think that someone would have developed a thumb program for adult webmasters, that does 100% of what we need.

[Berg.the.Red]

well ... in the "FWIW department": thumbnailer for making most of the batch thumbnails for galleries/sites, Arles for batch re-sizing/compressing full size pics and PhotoChop/Image Ready for individual re-sizing and cutting preview thumbnails.

Keyser: i've found the reverse to be the case --Arles will compress a full size pic down to a better quality and file weight than Image Ready would ...

[Dario]

Originally posted by virux
i use easy thumbnals
http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/index.php?2.6

=)

started using this one as well a few days ago, seems to be working pretty sweet.

used jasc image robot before but they don't seem to be releasing that one anymore, it was pretty cool tho.

[Martin]

Arles since day one :)

[roger]

arles or gena http://www.kozasoft.com/

[the Shemp]

Originally posted by roger
arles or gena http://www.kozasoft.com/
ive never heard of "gena"
is it good? compared to Arles..

[roger]

@ shemp
well i have been using arles and enjoying it untill my partner told me about gena 3 weeks ago.
now i use gena everytime as i find it even easier to use than arles there is a large preview window that lets you see what you are doing to the gallery thumbnail image etc
adding Bg colour border colour has better options
if you get some spare time download the trial version and play with it for a while you should really like it :)
here is a gallery i done earlier, i know it is nothing fancy but i am no expert and i made this in less than 2 minutes

http://www.teen-lucy.com/gallery/fun3/index.htm

[the Shemp]

Originally posted by roger
@ shemp
well i have been using arles and enjoying it untill my partner told me about gena 3 weeks ago.
now i use gena everytime as i find it even easier to use than arles there is a large preview window that lets you see what you are doing to the gallery thumbnail image etc
adding Bg colour border colour has better options
if you get some spare time download the trial version and play with it for a while you should really like it :)
here is a gallery i done earlier, i know it is nothing fancy but i am no expert and i made this in less than 2 minutes

http://www.teen-lucy.com/gallery/fun3/index.htm

i will check it out, thanks :)

[roger]

y\w will be intresting to see of you like it or not :)