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Thumbnails for you

This week, we take a look at software that help you create thumbnails of your image collections. All programs are shareware.

Album Creator Pro

AlbumCreator lets you create online albums from your digital photos using unique and highly professional Flash and HTML theme templates. You can customise the existing templates, create your own or download additional ones.

The program also includes editing tools to enhance your photos, remove red eye and more. Album Creator Pro includes a simple FTP client that lets you upload the finished album to your Web site.

Filesize: 8066 KB

Platform: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP

Download location: www.firmtools.com/

products/albumcreator

Arles Image Web Page Creator

This program can be used to quickly and easily create image collections on the Web. It creates high-quality thumbnails, modifies images and automatically creates HTML pages.

You can fine-tune images and HTML pages using the many available options or use templates for full control over the pages. Arles supports more than 20 image file formats and includes the Arles Image Explorer for easy image management.

Filesize: 2276 KB

Platform: Windows 98/ME/

NT/2000/XP

Download location:

www.digitaldutch.com/arles

ThumbNailer

This software allows you to create thumbnail images and image galleries. You can use it to resize images, convert between graphic formats, create HTML image galleries for the Web or CD, change image colour depth and much more.

It offers extensive HTML output capabilities as well as contact sheet creation and plug-in support. ThumbNailer offers advanced features like text overlay on images, image fades, macro expressions, output naming styles and a lot more.

Filesize: 1871 KB

Platform: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP

Download location: www.smalleranimals.

com/thumb.htm

Express Thumbnail Creator

Express Thumbnail Creator is a powerful tool that lets you create HTML image galleries ready to be published on the Web. The program features a wizard-style interface, which makes it manageable and easy to use for virtually anybody, including those who have no idea of HTML and image processing.

Creating a Web site is as easy as pressing a few buttons and letting Express Thumbnail Creator do the rest of the job.Filesize: 1604 KB

Platform: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP

Download location:

www.express-soft.com/etc

idImager

idImager is a full-featured image viewer with additional options to create thumbnail galleries from your collections. The viewer includes features like image conversion, slideshows, thumbnail views, full-screen view, image editing, effects and more.

The Web publishing features include customisable templates with support for scripting and built-in FTP upload. It also includes a digital camera wizard to import pictures and an email function to send optimised (smaller) versions of your images via e-mail. idImager supports all popular image formats.

Filesize: 3523 KB

Platform: Windows 98/NT/ME/2000

Download location: www.idimager.com

Picture Page

An easy-to-use program to select digital photos, add descriptions to them, and quickly create graphical Web pages for publication on office networks, the Internet, and CD disks. The pages may be set up to display text descriptions for each image, thumbnails, or both. Pictures may be forced to display at smaller sizes, so that users with low-screen resolutions can see the complete image without having to scroll down.

You can choose any background colour or graphic, add custom copyright or other identification notices, a custom link back to a starting page, apply batch updates and more.

Filesize: 3992 KB

Platform: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP

Download location: www.waverlystreet.

com/picpage.html

Album Generator and Viewer

This is a tool to organise your images into digital photo albums and publish them to the Web or CD. You can create albums with customisable colours, background, fonts, and picture frames, or choose from a variety of predefined styles. In addition, you can add background music and choose from several transition effects. The finished albums can be exported as auto-run CD files (requires additional burning software), as Web page or printed.

Filesize: 4411 KB

Platform: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP

Download location: www.xydot.com

Compiled by C. Ramesh

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