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Old January 8th 18, 04:19 AM posted to rec.photo.digital
Carlos E.R.
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On 2018-01-08 03:56, Savageduck wrote:
On Jan 7, 2018, Carlos E.R. wrote
(in article ):

On 2018-01-08 03:14, Savageduck wrote:
On Jan 7, 2018, Carlos E.R. wrote
(in ):



I have been doing this digital photography thing for some time, and I have
yet to have the need to produce a thumbnail of any quality.


Yes, you do. Any JPG generation has a "quality". It can be "one", so
very bad, or it can be "a hundred", so as best as can be, or any number
in between. Any jpg generated or changed has a quality number. You
choose the number, or you let the software decide.

Having a quality does not mean having high quality.


...er, OK. It seems we are talking at cross purposes. While I have produced
many JPEGs, I have not gone out of my way to deliberately produce thumbnails.


Me neither, but some people do :-)

Maybe he wants to have a directory that loads and browses fast with
small versions of the photos. Who knows?

For instance, somebody I knew generated them in order to create a web
page on his home server. The user would see a bunch of photos, click on
one and get the large version. So he wanted to generate much smaller
versions to optimize load time for the preview.

Yeah, sure, there will be some product out there that does it all. Where
is the joy in it, instead of doing it yourself completely? Or maybe he
was creating one of those "products" :-P

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Cheers, Carlos.