flexagon | Soooo clean--and thumbnail question

I'd just like to say that my house is pretty clean now. I did the dishes, wiped the counters, and then mopped for what must have been the first time in 2 months (disgusting, yes, true). I even scrubbed the tile behind where the new garbage can is... you know, the place where there were all those streaks of crud on the walls from us rebounding stuff into the old garbage can. (The new one has a lid specifically so we can't do that anymore.) It's soooo much better.

I did a few more thank-you notes too, including

bluechromis's finally. Only 3-4 left to go, yay. Now if only I could figure out why HLM hasn't started on his... why why? Sure, I know it's a pain, but all the stuff including stamps is in one place on the table, and he's had plenty of chances to sit and do them right along with me, and he doesn't even have that many to do. I can't remind him about them anymore either... he's starting to get annoyed. :b

Question, now, for you geek types: what's a good way to make a bunch of thumbnails? There's gotta be something quicker than resizing them one at a time. I'd rather have something that would do it for a whole folder's worth of pictures at once, or else just take a filepath and generate a thumbnail, without making me open each image. Any advice would be mucho appreciated.

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OHH, I am so jealous ... my apartment needs a thorough cleaning but I haven't gotten up the energy to do it right.

A friend of mine uses IDS (http://ids.sourceforge.net/) to host his pictures on the web. It automatically generates thumbnails (and alternate size pics) on demand. Even if you don't want to host your own photo album, you might be able to use IDS to easily creat the thumbnails, and then copy them where ever you need them.?

Considering I still have junk on my floor the size of an old microwave oven--oh dear, that's right, it is an old microwave oven! Out, out, damned trash! Also, I still can't even see my desk, the one upon which I wish I were setting up the new sewing machine. But... clutter and dirt are separate battles, I suppose...

You can create a web photo album in Photoshop that takes an entire folder (and any sub-folders) and automatically creates thumbnails. It also creates html pages (ie: the whole website) which is probably more than you want, but you do get the thumbnails and it's quick and easy.

Yeah, I have Photoshop Elements 2.0 (kind of a watered-down Photoshop)... and I checked its help system and it does indeed do that! Thanks. :)

(Considering how lazy I've been so far with getting wedding pictures up, I may indeed stoop to using its generated pages, at least for a first cut. I've never done such a thing before, but if there ever was an appropriate time, this is it.)

ulead's photoexplorer will create thumbnails:
http://www.ulead.com/pex/runme.htm

If you prefer the 'free' route and aren't afraid to do a little work "ImageJ" is a java API that you can hook into your program (http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/)

I used it to make my own image gallery (which auto-generates thumbnails for me thanks to imageJ) : http://www.web-rat.com/Downloads/cfmx/shak/

Thanks for all the links! I'm gonna do the Photoshop thing tho', just because I already have it.

Soooo clean--and thumbnail question

Jealous

No need for that, silly bear

Do you have Photoshop?

Sweet!

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