Ways of enlarging a thumbprint image

Report · Feb 23, 2008

Ways of enlarging a thumbprint image

Hi All,

Could someone clever please look at the following URL:

http://www.akdstudio.co.uk/

When one clicks on the images, a screen sized version appears on the
left of a blank screen.

I created this effect by simply linking the small image to the large
image. I would like to improve on this.

I do not like the fact that, with the present method, the large image is
not centered. The only way ***I know of*** to achieve that would be to
create an html page for each, centre the image on the html page, and
link the small image to the corresponding html page.

Creating the extra html pages is rather time consuming when many images
are involved (as is usually the case with me).

Can anyone suggest a simpler way of giving website visitors access to
large images when clicking on a thumbprint.

I have tried Project Seven's Gallery Magic but do not like that fact
that with Gallery Magic the thumbprints take up so much space that the
large image either is not very large, or the visitor has to scroll in
order to see a screen sized large image.

I resize the large image to a maximum with of 750 x 480 px, so that they
fit onto the screen without scrolling.

btw I am not, at this stage, keen on doing anything with Flash.

What do you think?

Thanks.

Adrian

Report · Feb 24, 2008

> Can anyone suggest a simpler way of giving website visitors access to
> large images when clicking on a thumbprint.

One option: http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/

> I have tried Project Seven's Gallery Magic but do not like that fact that
> with Gallery Magic the thumbprints take up so much space that the large
> image either is not very large, or the visitor has to scroll in order to
> see a screen sized large image.

Not sure if I really follow this.
I find IGM offers a compact, space efficient method for presenting a series
of images.
Thumbnails and large images can be set to whatever size you prefer.

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Regards

John Waller

Report · Feb 24, 2008

Hi John,

Thank you for giving me that link. I will try it out.

Concerning P7 Gallery Magic - perhaps I am not using it properly (I have
to read the Manual completely, I suppose). Visitors to many sites,
especially a photographer's site, want to see the images not only
recognisably large, but as large as possible, i.e. filling the screen,
say 766 x 480 px.

In Gallery Magic, since the large image appears on the same screen as
the thumbprint, the large image has to be smaller than full screen, and
the visitor will have to scroll to bring the large image up to fill the
screen (will letting the thumbprints etc disappear on top).

Is that clearer?

Now is there a facility in GM which I have overlooked or am using
incorrectly.

Thanks for your help, and have a nice Sunday.

Adrian

John Waller wrote:
>> Can anyone suggest a simpler way of giving website visitors access to
>> large images when clicking on a thumbprint.
>
> One option: http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/
>
>> I have tried Project Seven's Gallery Magic but do not like that fact that
>> with Gallery Magic the thumbprints take up so much space that the large
>> image either is not very large, or the visitor has to scroll in order to
>> see a screen sized large image.
>
> Not sure if I really follow this.
> I find IGM offers a compact, space efficient method for presenting a series
> of images.
> Thumbnails and large images can be set to whatever size you prefer.
>
>
>

Report · Feb 24, 2008

Visitors to many sites,
> especially a photographer's site, want to see the images not only
> recognisably large, but as large as possible, i.e. filling the screen, say
> 766 x 480 px.

Must admit I never expect large images to be full screen, even on a
photographers site. Makes navigation awkward for me when I want to jump from
thumb to thumb.

The thumbnails you have on http://www.akdstudio.co.uk/ would be fine as
large images for me. 50x50px or 100x100px thumbs work fine.

I look for a balance between navigating thumbs and viewing large images so I
can see enough detail.
e.g. I find the example at
http://www.projectseven.com/products/galleries/hgmagic/insert.htm works
fine.

> Is that clearer?

I think so.

If you're aiming for the large image to be full screen, Lightbox may be a
better option but that has limitations such as quickly scrolling from large
image to large image is cumbersome.

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Regards

John Waller