Thumbnails

[Guest]

What would make my thumbnails look blurry? I scan pictures and the full-size version can look crystal-clear, but when I turn them into thumbnails using the auto thumbnail button, the picture will look all blurry, and also when you go into Page Options>Auto Thumbnail, what is the best pixel setting and from which side (width, height, longest side, or shortest side) to set it at? I will be using both vertical and horizontal pictures.

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

Make your own thumbnails in your graphics program instead of letting
FrontPage create them. FP is not good at creating quality images.

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| What would make my thumbnails look blurry? I scan pictures and the
full-size version can look crystal-clear, but when I turn them into
thumbnails using the auto thumbnail button, the picture will look all
blurry, and also when you go into Page Options>Auto Thumbnail, what is the
best pixel setting and from which side (width, height, longest side, or
shortest side) to set it at? I will be using both vertical and horizontal
pictures.

 

[E. T. Culling]

I don't know what you're doing before making the thumbnails but here's an
article that might help you:
http://www.eleanorstravels.com/frontpage_images/index.htm... and some of the
other articles linked from that page.
Eleanor

What would make my thumbnails look blurry? I scan pictures and the

full-size version can look crystal-clear, but when I turn them into
thumbnails using the auto thumbnail button, the picture will look all
blurry, and also when you go into Page Options>Auto Thumbnail, what is the
best pixel setting and from which side (width, height, longest side, or
shortest side) to set it at? I will be using both vertical and horizontal
pictures.

 

[Mark Jerde]

I like this freeware thumbnail program.
http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/?Easy Thumbnails=2600

-- Mark

 

[Andrew Murray]

the fact that you're reducing them to thumbnails makes them blurry - the way
frontpage re-scales the images etc - it is not an image editor, so do not expect
crystal clear thumbnails.

What would make my thumbnails look blurry? I scan pictures and the full-size

version can look crystal-clear, but when I turn them into thumbnails using the
auto thumbnail button, the picture will look all blurry, and also when you go
into Page Options>Auto Thumbnail, what is the best pixel setting and from which
side (width, height, longest side, or shortest side) to set it at? I will be
using both vertical and horizontal pictures.

 

[E. T. Culling]

Be sure not to use FP to make thumbnails ....
It really is possible to make good thumbnails with the help of tweaking with
the unsharp mask properties in a program such as Paint shop Pro etc. And/or
take a look at the Batch Thumbs program from: http://www.harmware.com/
Eleanor