Posted by Terry Pinnell on 03/08/06 18:56

Jim Higson <jh@333.org> wrote:

>Terry Pinnell wrote:
>
>> I'd appreciate hearing how others would tackle the following simple
>> exercise please. I've finally got around after some 6 months to
>> publishing photos of my 2005 Thames Path walk on my home pages:
>> http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/terrypin/Walks/TP05/walkphotos05.htm
>> (Links to the two previous years' walks are also included.)
>>
>> As you see, the layout is basic layout and so is the presentation
>> method: each captioned thumbnail takes you to an individual enlarged
>> photo (about 640 x 420, made by resizing the edited originals). But
>> that loses the captions, and I'd like them included.
>>
>> I've experimented before with adding captions within the photo itself,
>> but don't really like the result, which can spoil the composition.
>>
>> So I'm now considering making new images, say about 640 x 440, with
>> the caption in the added white space below the photo.
>>
>> (As an aside, anyone have any ideas on fast/automated ways of
>> achieving that? Doing it manually for each image will be tedious.
>> Given that the text already exists under the thumbnails, it should be
>> possible somehow to automate it...)
>>
>> But what other approaches would others recommend please? IOW, what are
>> better methods of allowing the photos to be displayed at that larger
>> size, complete with captions?
>>
>> I'm relatively inexperienced with low level HTML coding, and use
>> FrontPage 2000 for most of my stuff.
>
>http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-graf/?ca=dnt-428
>and
>http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-graf2/?ca=dgr-lnxw15GraphicsLine
>could do what you want pretty quickly.

Thanks Jim, downloading ImageMagick now and will study. Never been too
comfortable with command line stuff, but if it does the job...#

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK

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