Album thumbnail
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kvdb
Joined: 2002-10-10
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Posted: Tue, 2003-09-02 18:25
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How's this for making a difference between a normal picture thumbnail and an album thumbnail? |
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Nifty! :D
If it comes in a command line format, and is distributed under an open source license, then we might be able to use it! Can you investigate those things for us?
-Beckett (
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Alternatively, we could generate borders via that for a large image, then place them into a table surrounding the image.
They'd be a great replacement for the "book" look.
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This is a great effect - Webshots Gallery offers that kind of effect in their options (my daughter has a gallery there, which is when I first noticed it).
I've been playing around with making an expandable border similar to this (for G1) - but to be able to do it automatically would be SO much easier.
Nice work, can't wait to see what comes of this AND G2 together!
Gaile
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If I understand the G2 structure correctly, it's just a matter of updating the theme a little bit. Add 4 png borders for a thumbnail depending on if it's an album or a picture.
We could do the same with movies. Because according to the plans I've seen a movie thumbnail will look the same as a normal image because it's just a frame taken out of the movie.
These simple additions should long be in G1 if you ask me.
Let's see if G2 does better.
Yeah, I know, there's one problem. All thumbnails have to be of a predefined size otherwise the borders won't fit. But that's just what webshots gallery does. They all have the same thumbnail sizes. And the added shadow effect on the resized photo's is just made of multiple times an image which is 1 pixel wide.
Don't know if photostack is what we want. It heavily depends on gimp. But what's wrong with a theme requiring gimp or the kitchensink. It's up to the theme developers, not gallery developers. Sure themers think of more tricks when gimp is available at runtime. It shouldn't be the default theme however.
For the default gallery theme, I would go with some pre-made borders for a few different standard thumbnail sizes. And the shadow effect for resized pictures. That shouldn't be too difficult for the theme designers?
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kvdb hit the nail on the head. This function should be completely controlled by the theme. It'll be up to the theme to decorate the album in a pleasing manner. Yes, there will be issues surrounding the size of the borders, but we can probably work around those issues.
If the above doesn't work, there's another alternative. We can introduce a new add-on module into G2 that detects when you're creating an album thumbnail and loads up Gimp and modifies the thumbnail, etc. This is a ways off in the future, but the infrastructure is there to support add-on modules interposing themselves at thumbnail creation time...
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Could you share your adaptation. I would like to use the thumbnails style of "Webshots Gallery " for my album. I have try to modified the "polaroids" style into the "Webshots Gallery " style but i didn't suceed.
thanks
Tom