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Hi,

I'm pretty new here and was wondering if there is a way to change the thumbnail size.  I did some research and someone was saying to post this request in this forum.  So here it is.  A lot of my pictures are of people surfing and its hard for them to quickly look through a lot of small thumbnails to find themselves.

Another things is that I didnt see any page numbers when searching through the thumbnails.  I think that would make it easier to search through the thumbnails as well.

Sorry, one more question.  When creating the galleries I noticed that it was pretty slow.  Is that because the size of my images?  Would it be faster if I changed everything from 3888x2592 to like 800x600?  Its slow when adding pictures to the program and creating the gallery. 

Thanks for your help!

Blake

 To answer your question about images. I resize my images in my gallery to 1024x768, save at 90% (9 in photoshop I think), and a dpi of 90 (all that's needed to view on a monitor). This helps speed up the generation process of the gallery. I haven't had any complaints about the quality of the images when viewing. In Shozam I pick an image setting of 100% and the images still are quite small in the gallery. Still my gallery is around 160megs to upload.

Hope this helps.

Tom 

thx for your reply.  I'll try to resize the images to make the creation process faster. 

Tom,

Resizing images outside of Shozam before importing them into the program should save a lot of time in displaying the thumbnails in Step 2 and then in generating the gallery in Step 5. It will not make a difference in size of the generated gallery files or in the upload time in Step 6.

However, you may find it better to lower the image quality to 70-90% in Shozam. The difference between 90% and 100% is most likely not noticeable but the difference in file size can be quite large, requiring longer times to upload gallery as well as longer wait times for viewers to see the images.

Note that 100% does not mean that image is "left alone" and the compression from Photoshop is just passed along. Since Shozam resizes images, it does require the image to be re-saved and at that time to be recompressed. 100% quality (with so little compression) is somewhat an ineffective way of using a JPG file format.

You may create a test gallery with just a few images and try the various compression settings and see what is the best compromise between image quality and image size. It is likely to be 70-80%. However, if you find anything different, please post as it may be interesting to other Shozammers.

I resized the images to 800x600 and the gallery creation of about 250 photos was faster.  Also used 60% quailty.  thx...

now how about them thumbnail sizes?  lol...