little image question, about load times

[dmartin17]

If you take an image (800x600) will it load faster if you specify the size as (200x150)? or does it take the same amount of time and then it shrinks it?

i want to have a thumbnail type system of displaying my pictures but I don't want to have to make smaller images AND store them as well.

Please let me know.

[sebs]

yes it take the same size,

if you resize it in the page, do a save as, and you'll see
that it will be on it's real size!!,

what don't you want to resize it before??

[dmartin17]

Thats cool, its what i figured was going to be the case.

I don't want to resize before for 2 reasons. I have a LOT of pictures i want to make thumbnails for and Thembnails will take up additional space.

Any reccomadations on programs that will make thumbnails of a whole directory?

or anything else helpful?

[scoutt]

thumbnails will load a lot faster than a 800x600 squezed into a smaller space. and the thumbnails only take up about 2-3k of space per TB. as the 800x600 is a lot bigger. there are scripts out there that will make a thumbnail/s out of your directory, but off hand I can't remember. what ever script you use check out this site as they carry a lot of different languages.

www.hotscripts.com

[sail3005]

if you have an image, say, 200x200 and specify it as that size, the browser will be able to load the page faster. Not directly related to your question, but you could use that for your thumbnails.

[scoutt]

that is what he was saying, he didn't want to make thumbnails of his pictures but, that would be best

[sail3005]

yeah, but i am not talking about resizing at all, just specifying the image size within the <img> tag.

[scoutt]

it will still take the same amount of time to download that 800x600 and stuff it in a 200x200, if it was still the 800x600. all it does is smoosh it to size as it will look all grainy, not as the img would be if he made thumbnails.

[bennett]

you can use Photoshop or ImageReady to automate the creation of thumbnails - without going into too much detail: you can record the resizing actions in PS (resize to 200 x 200; save as PNG or whatever) and then use those actions to create a "droplet" which performs those actions on any and all files dropped on it... come to think of it I think you have to do this with ImageReady but I cant remember... Fireworks probably has similar functionality built in but I've never had to use it since I use PS/ImageReady.
there are probably other software solutions but thats what I KNOW works... saved me alot of time over the years.
cheers,
bennett

[sail3005]

Originally posted by scoutt
it will still take the same amount of time to download that 800x600 and stuff it in a 200x200, if it was still the 800x600. all it does is smoosh it to size as it will look all grainy, not as the img would be if he made thumbnails.

i know, that. i am talking about an image that is already 200x200

[scoutt]

yup but that is not what he wants to do is have extra pictures on the server.

[sail3005]

ok