What freeware creates thumbnail photo html gallery WITH LINKS

[Voivod]

What WinXP freeware do you use to create local HTML galleries (with easily
clickable web links to the larger local photographs)?

ImageWalker. http://www.imagewalker.com

 

[Monkee]

Googling, I found FreshView for Windows freeware at:
http://www.freshdevices.com/freshview.html

The download page required an email account (which is surprising for
freeware). Having been spammed to death already, I created a new yahoo
account but the FreshDevices web page won't accept Yahoo email (huh?).

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Have you not tried the XP powertoy I suggested earlier? Does this not do
what you want? It's incredibly easy to use, no messing around, choose
images, create html, thats it - can easily then be copied to
webspace/another manchine and continues to work fine.

 

[Petersen, Vegard Krog]

On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 19:15:20 GMT, dadiOH wrote:
IrfanView (unfortunately) failed to create the desired web page.

Can someone tell me what settings to use in IrfanView thumbnail view
such that the saved HTML file actually shows the thumbnails?

I've made several webpages with IrfanViews HTML function. It's very easy.

Just select the directory where you're files are and select another
directory as Destination folder (you don't have to make the directory
beforehand). Let the Thumbnails sub-folder and Images sub-folder be blank.

Mark the 'Copy original..', 'Create one..', 'Display links in original'
boxes.


Quick and dirty upload:
http://home.no/buffy2/heidi.html

Screenshoot IrfanView:
http://home.no/buffy2/SNAG-0000.jpg

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[optikl]

Can anyone else vouch for this "Fresh Devices" outfit as a fitting
replacement for the otherwise venerable IrfanView for creating a web page
of thumbnail images linked to the originals?

barb

Stay away from the Fresh Devices stuff. Some of their utilities are
quite good. But, I suspect they fund their utilities by selling names
and addresses of users.

 

[dadiOH]

IrfanView (unfortunately) failed to create the desired web page.

Your fault, not its.
___________________

Can someone tell me what settings to use in IrfanView thumbnail view
such that the saved HTML file actually shows the thumbnails?

0. I started with an empty directory:
mkdir c:\pic
And then I put a folder of 500 original photographs there.
c:\pic\original

Unless you specifically want them there, no purpose is served since
you can link to them where they were beforehand.
___________________

4. I pressed "File" & then "Save selected thumbs as HTML file".
The options chosen were:
Main result HTML file name: index.html
Destination folder: c:\pic
Thumbnails sub-folder: c:\pic\thumbs

Don't specify a folder for thumbs, let them wind up in the folder with
the HTML file.

Thumbnail file prefix: th_
Thumbnail flie suffix: _th

You don't really need either, certainly not both. The purpose of
either is to distinguish a thumbnail jpeg from the original and that
is superfluous if you don't move/copy the originals into the folder
where you are putting the index file.

Images sub-folder: c:\pic\images
Filder with HTML templates: c:\programs\viewers\irfanview\html\
[x]Copy original images to destination folder (recommended)

Again, no need to copy the photos.

[x]Create one HTML file for each thumbnail (HTML browsing)

Uncheck this. All you want is the one index file.


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[Huss]

Stay away from the Fresh Devices stuff. Some of their utilities are
quite good. But, I suspect they fund their utilities by selling names
and addresses of users.

After registering with them, a few years back, I found my spam rate
increased significantly. Obviously correlation != cause, but I found
myself remembering the experience as I looked at their page, and I
closed the window. You've just reinforced my view.
--
Huss

They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered
reputations of the week.

William Congreve

 

[Elisabeta]

There is a program called ThumbaWumba that I like to use, it is here:

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/thumba.html

Only downside I could see was that it seems to only handle jpegs so you may
need to convert some png, gif and bmp to jpeg if you want the thumbs

I use my thumb galleries more often in web pages so I did need to do minor
editing to incorporate web site colors, text, etc., but it was less work
that writing the code from scratch...

I usually did the minor editing (removal) of any unnecessary code and used a
linked Style Sheet (CSS) that was part of the web site I wanted the gallery
for....

Hope this helps

Regards,
Elisabeta

 

[M.L.]

What WinXP freeware do you use to create local HTML galleries (with

easily clickable web links to the larger local photographs)?

I like Image Catalog (ImCat). The freeware version has an easy-to-use
Express mode and a more powerful Advanced mode (which allows
customization beyond what you are asking). Either will do what
you want. ImCat also has preset templates to make gallery creation even
easier.

description: http://www.nulidex.com/products/image_catalog.shtml

download: http://www.nulidex.com/download/index.shtml

 

[Kevin Agard]

Since Irfanview keeps writing the full path (including the "./c:") into the
index.html IMG SRC tag, I'm going to have to give up on the otherwise
fantastic IrfanView and find something else that works to create a simple
web page of thumbnails pointing to the larger originals.

Googling, I found FreshView for Windows freeware at:
http://www.freshdevices.com/freshview.html

The download page required an email account (which is surprising for
freeware). Having been spammed to death already, I created a new yahoo
account but the FreshDevices web page won't accept Yahoo email (huh?).

A warning on the FreshDevices web page ominously says:
Do not use free email accounts. Our system is not compatible with
some ISP. You may report to your ISP about it, mostly related
with their e-mail filtering/blocking/anti-spam settings.

Hmmm... sounds like a potential spam house or spyware threat to me.

Can anyone else vouch for this "Fresh Devices" outfit as a fitting
replacement for the otherwise venerable IrfanView for creating a web page
of thumbnail images linked to the originals?

barb

Try this:

http://www.freshdevices.com/files/freshview.exe

 

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

Voila! XnView worked like a charm!
http://perso.orange.fr/pierre.g/xnview/enfeatures.html

Having failed (as explained in great detail) to create a web page with
thumbnails linked to the original JPEGs using the freeware IrfanView, the
suspected spyware FreshView, the hard-to-install javaware JAlbum, and the
hard-to-navigate YoPoW, I just now tried your suggested XnView.

Here's what I did.

After reading the torturous procedure necessary to create a
thumbnail page with GUI tools, I thought I'd see how hard it would
be to do something similar with a shell script.

The script turned out to be a little over 30 lines. It's not a
production quality program, yet, but it allows me to create pages
with a simple command:

mkthumbindex *jpg *.png *.gif

A sample result is at:
<http://cfaj.freeshell.org/web/examples/cbronline.jpg.shtml>

The pages are presented with this stylesheet:
<http://cfaj.freeshell.org/web/examples/img.css>.

The script requires the ImageMagick commands identify and convert,
and can be seen at

0. I already had all my originals in c:\pic\original
I deleted everything else so that there were no other files or
directories in c:\pic other than the directory of 500 originals.
1. I started up XnView version 1.82.4 & viewed the following defaults:
"View" "Layout" = (left frame thumbnails, right frame originals)
"View" "Thumbnail Size" = 92 x 69 pixels [snip]
20. Finally, when I double-clicked on the index.html file:
c:\pic\web\index.html
the thumbnails were all in the left frame and whichever thumbnail
was selected showed the 25% shrunken original in the right pane.

 

[barb]

Alas indeed. It appears to me that you did what you were supposed
to have done. The only thing I can suggest is to try it again

Hi ASAAR,

Thanks for the helpful hints.
It is really nice that you take time to help me whom you don't even know.
I much appreciate your taking the time to test the steps.

As I had noted, I ended up using a different tool which worked fine.
But, Irfanview, being the best freeware picture viewer on the planet,
deserves another chance!

I think I'm getting closer to the universal answer (42 perhaps?).

Here's the second try to document this for others.
Notice it failed, but, I suspect I'm getting closer to the true method.
Once we get the true method documented, others can easily follow.

0. Start with an empty directory anywhere, e.g.:
mkdir c:\pic
And then put a folder for the originals there:
c:\pic\proofs
And add a few originals:
c:\pic\proofs\Picture 001.jpg
c:\pic\proofs\Picture 002.jpg
c:\pic\proofs\Picture 003.jpg

Assume each original JPEG is approximately 3008 x 2000 pixels.
No other files or directories should exist in c:\pic at this time.

1. Bring up Irfanview (version 3.98) & open the thumbnail editor
by selecting "File" & then "Thumbnails".
This opens a second window with all the thumbnails showing.
You can kill the original Irfanview window at this time.

2. You'll need to manually create a directory to put your
soon-to-be thumbnails in so go out to DOS for a moment to run:
mkdir c:\pic\thumbs
And, then, back in the Irfanview thumbnail window, select
"Options" & then "Select All".
This selects all your thumbnails.
Then press "File" & then "Save selected thumbs as single images".
Choose the existing "c:\pic\thumbs" directory & press the OK button.
This creates the desired thumbs named as:
c:\pic\thumbs\Picture 001_t.jpg
c:\pic\thumbs\Picture 002_t.jpg
c:\pic\thumbs\Picture 003_t.jpg

Note there is no dialog box telling you when this task is done.
Just wait until all the selected thumbs are created.

3. With all the thumbs still selected, press "File" & then press
"Save selected thumbs as HTML file".

This pops up the critical form for setting your options:
Main result HTML file name: index.html
Destination folder: c:\pic
Thumbnails sub-folder: c:\pic\thumbs
Thumbnail file prefix:
Thumbnail flie suffix: _t
Images sub-folder: c:\pic\images
Folder with HTML templates: c:\programs\viewers\irfanview\html\
[x]Copy original images to destination folder (recommended)
[ ]Create one HTML file for each thumbnail (HTML browsing)
[ ]Create HTML Slideshow
HTML Options Page title: My Pictures
Columns: 4
[ ]Link images to original files on local disk ("file://")
[x]Write file info/text [$F = file name] [$S = file size]
Text alignment ( )Left (x)Center ( )Right
Link/Image display ( )Display links in original browser window
(x)Display links in the second browser window

When you are ready, press the [Export] button.

4. There is no confirmation when the job finishes but, soon enough
you'll have one HTML file in the c:\pic directory:
c:\pic\index.html

5. Unfortunately, due to some setting in step 3 above, neither the
thumbnails nor the original pictures were shown due to the following
(incorrect) text in the index.html file:

<A HREF="./c:/pic/images/Picture 003.jpg"
target="ImageWindow" style="text-decoration:none">
<IMG SRC="./c:/pic/thumbs/Picture 003_t.jpg"
width="80" height="80" BORDER="0" ALT="Picture 003.jpg">

Notice the images sub folder (c:\pic\images) doesn't exist so it was my
fault for putting that as the images sub folder. I guess I should have
made the images sub folder c:\pic\proofs instead. I'll retry.

Also notice the FULL PATH which will be problematic when we're
copying this directory over to a networked machine.

I think these are the only two stumbling blocks left.
barb

 

[barb]

Don't specify a folder for thumbs.
Let them wind up in the folder with the HTML file.

Hi dadiOH (Daddy Hydroxide?),

I'm confused about your suggestion.
It seems Irfanview doesn't create the thumbs automatically.
It seems we must create the thumbs manually.
Are you saying we should the thumbs them at the top level?

That is, are these the steps you are suggesting to create the thumbnail
images?

2. In the Irfanview thumbnail window, select "Options" & then
"Select All". This selects all your thumbnails.
Then press "File" & then "Save selected thumbs as single images".
Choose the existing "c:\pic" directory & press the OK button.
This creates the desired thumbs named as:
c:\pic\Picture 001_t.jpg
c:\pic\Picture 002_t.jpg
c:\pic\Picture 003_t.jpg

Are you suggesting the problem is that I'm creating a separate thumbnail
folder for the thumbs?

barb

 

[barb]

Exactly. Pretty easy to do -- you have to start the process in 'thumbnail'
view. Once Irfanview is open, press 't'. Then follow the above instructions.
Too easy.

Hi Michael Laplante,

The only part of your suggestion I'm was having the trouble with was the
small part about "following the above instructions". LOL

In reading your reply and analyzing why this works for you and not for me,
I think I found where the problem lies!

Keeping in mind I'm getting an erroneously longer path in the index.html
IMG SRC = "./c:/pic/thumbs/Picture 001_t.jpg
I started looking WHERE IrfanView gets that erroneous long path.

It was only then that I realized the IrfanView "Generate HTML file"
dialog box asks for either a "folder" or a "sub-folder".

Basically, when it asks for a "sub-folder", IrfanView does NOT want the
full path!

When the IrfanView dialog box asks for a "folder", it does want the full
path.

Simple enough (although not intuitive to me at first inspection).

So, the solution, I believe, is to change my Irfanview settings:
FROM:
Destination folder: c:\pic
Thumbnails sub-folder: c:\pic\thumbs
Images sub-folder: c:\pic\images
TO:
Destination folder: c:\pic
Thumbnails sub-folder: thumbs
Images sub-folder: images

I'll test this hypothesis out and let you know the results.
I hope to write it all up so others can just follow us in seconds.

barb

 

[barb]

ImageWalker. http://www.imagewalker.com

So that others benefit from the rollup, it looks like the following dozen
are the suggested programs for those frugalers among us who create web
pages of our photographs using Windows freeware.

THE TOP THREE SUGGESTED WINDOWS WEB ALBUM FREEWARE CREATORS:
irfanview http://www.irfanview.com/
xnview: http://perso.orange.fr/pierre.g/xnview/enfeatures.html
jalbum http://jalbum.net/

OTHER SUGGESTED WINDOWS WEB ALBUM CREATOR FREEWARES:
porta http://www.stegmann.dk/mikkel/porta/
iwebalbum http://www.eunq.com/index.html
yopow http://home.hccnet.nl/s.j.francke/yopow/yopow.htm
ethumbs http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ethumbe.htm
imagewalker. http://www.imagewalker.com
imcat http://www.nulidex.com/products/image_catalog.shtml
thumbawumba http://www.snapfiles.com/get/thumba.html
powertoys
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
freshview http://www.freshdevices.com/freshview.html

A SCRIPT TO DO THE JOB KINDLY SUBMITTED BY CHRIS JOHNSON:
Sample http://cfaj.freeshell.org/web/examples/cbronline.jpg.shtml
Stylesheet http://cfaj.freeshell.org/web/examples/img.css
Script http://cfaj.freeshell.org/web/examples/mkthumbindex.txt

I hope this recap summarizes for future users so they don't go through what
I went through just to create a web page with thumbnails.

barb

 

[Craig]

So that others benefit from the rollup, it looks like the following dozen
are the suggested programs for those frugalers among us who create web
pages of our photographs using Windows freeware.

THE TOP THREE SUGGESTED WINDOWS WEB ALBUM FREEWARE CREATORS:
irfanview http://www.irfanview.com/
xnview: http://perso.orange.fr/pierre.g/xnview/enfeatures.html
jalbum http://jalbum.net/

OTHER SUGGESTED WINDOWS WEB ALBUM CREATOR FREEWARES:
porta http://www.stegmann.dk/mikkel/porta/
iwebalbum http://www.eunq.com/index.html
yopow http://home.hccnet.nl/s.j.francke/yopow/yopow.htm
ethumbs http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ethumbe.htm
imagewalker. http://www.imagewalker.com
imcat http://www.nulidex.com/products/image_catalog.shtml
thumbawumba http://www.snapfiles.com/get/thumba.html
powertoys
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
freshview http://www.freshdevices.com/freshview.html

A SCRIPT TO DO THE JOB KINDLY SUBMITTED BY CHRIS JOHNSON:
Sample http://cfaj.freeshell.org/web/examples/cbronline.jpg.shtml
Stylesheet http://cfaj.freeshell.org/web/examples/img.css
Script http://cfaj.freeshell.org/web/examples/mkthumbindex.txt

Great thread Barb...thanks!

-Craig

 

[Matt Ion]

What WinXP freeware do you use to create local HTML galleries (with easily
clickable web links to the larger local photographs)?

This Windows photo-gallery freeware needs to do only two basic tasks:
- Given a directory of large originals - create smaller thumbnails
- Create a local index.html linking the thumbnails to the larger originals

Here's what failed!

IRFANVIEW:
Googling, I find some advocated Irfanview. But, while Irfanview is a great
fast photo viewer and while Irfanview easily creates thumbnails, I couldn't
figure out how to force Irfanview to output a simple index.html of those
thumbnails which points to the larger originals. http://www.irfanview.com

You didn't try very hard then...

Select the Thumbnails tool in IrfanView (click File -> Thumbnails, or just hit
'T')... select the files you want to create your gallery from, right-click them
and select "Save selected thumbs as HTML file (or select it from the File menu).

Default name is Thumbnails.html... change it as desired, set your various
options, and away you go. You can have it generate everything in a designated
folder, store the thumbnails and/or full images in their own subfolders...

Creates a pretty decent output with the default settings, or you can create/edit
custom templates...

 

[Zaphod]

A warning on the FreshDevices web page ominously says:
Do not use free email accounts. Our system is not compatible with
some ISP. You may report to your ISP about it, mostly related
with their e-mail filtering/blocking/anti-spam settings.

Hmmm... sounds like a potential spam house or spyware threat to me.

Can anyone else vouch for this "Fresh Devices" outfit as a fitting
replacement for the otherwise venerable IrfanView for creating a web page
of thumbnail images linked to the originals?

barb

freshdevices will email you with updates for the product you downloaded
as well ads and links to other software they vendor.. long after you
have found it useless, emails come complete with an unsubscribe link