Thumbnails question

"James Shook" <jshook (AT) dont_mail (DOT) com> wrote

Mark.I wrote:

I like the idea of cropping the larger picture to make a smaller one,
but I
don' t really know which bits to show, if you pardon the expression.

The small pictures on my pages are blurred and barely identifiable. I
don' t
like them.

Here's an example where I've used the "selective thumbnail" method:
http://www.jshook.com/autumn/

We have some wonderful places in the UK, for autumn The colours are just
amazing.

I think some of these work better than others, but this is just a page I
threw together to show some friends what autumn is like here in the
northeast US. With more care I could probably make the thumbnails more
representative of the full image.

Of course this technique won't work well if the larger image is of
something like a complex piece of machinery. A detail might not be
enough information for the viewer to make the right selection.

Mine are screen dumps. There isn't much you can crop off screen form, apart
from its title.

Thanks
Mark.i

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James M. Shook
http://www.jshook.com