[thelist] automatic website thumbnail generation

[dn at dittodesign.co.uk]

Just thought,  set up one action to do the lot.
Cut out your grab, save it at full size if you need
it at that size, then turn it in to a thumbnail and save that.
Even easier. ;-)

Darren

----- Original Message -----
From: <dn at dittodesign.co.uk>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: [thelist] automatic website thumbnail generation


> Photoshop actions and batch process.
>
> Presuming the thumbnails will all be the same
> size. Create a new action in PS, record your
> manual resize of one of the images and save for web
> if thats the final destination. Stop recording. Go to
> file >> automate >> batch.  Choose the action
> just recorded, the source folder containing the
> original full size images, and an ouput folder for
> the thumbnails. Simple =8-)
>
> As for the intial screen grab I'm afraid I don't know
> of an easy way round that. You may just have to bite
> the bullet and go grab each site in turn. Although if
> the screen grab is the same apart from the different site,
> that is you have your browser window fully open, showing
> only the site on your monitor. Once grabbed you can go
> through the same process as above. Set up an action to
> cut the site out of each grab and save. The initial grabs
> must be exactly the same apart from the site, to be able
> to automate and get predictable results.
>
> HTH.
>
> Darren Yates
> dn at dittodesign.co.uk
> http://dittodesign.co.uk
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ben Phillips" <ben at inchima.com>
> To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 11:51 AM
> Subject: [thelist] automatic website thumbnail generation
>
>
> > we have a list of websites (about 300) that all need thumbnails of the
> > front page generating.
> >
> > of course, this could be done by hand - which would take a long time,
> > but would get done eventually.
> >
> > however, it seems that this may have to be repeated quite a few times,
> > and i wouldn't like to have to go through hundreds of websites, getting
> > screenshots and reducing in size each time.
> >
> > does anybody know of any software that can do this for me? or any way i
> > can script some software or anything - any way to make this job easier?
> > i keep putting this job off because i really don't fancy it...
> >
> > thanks,
> > benji
> > inchima.com
> >
>
>
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