Automatic thumbnail generation for uploaded images

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  philibuster · Member · Jan 12, 2006 at 12:09 pm

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  I was uploading an image, pretty big 4megapixel, and when it uploaded, no thumbnail was created. This is kind of a bummer, because then I had to go in and make my own stinkin’ thumbnail. Which I uploaded. I also uploaded an intermediate size picture, which generated its own thumbnail. What’s going on?

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  picturenet · Member · Jan 13, 2006 at 2:54 am

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  Most blogs will have little need for a 4 mp image, and it would be quite wasteful to have many of these uploaded to WordPress.com . It would be best to resize an image to the size necessary for the blog before uploading. Extemely large images will not generate a thumbnail because of server bandwidth issues. It may work better for you to upload photos to a photo sharing service such as http://www.bpase.com, which will generate a thumbnail and a small, medium, large, and original version of each image.

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  philibuster · Member · Jan 13, 2006 at 8:57 am

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  do you mean pbase? Thanks for the tip. I think flickr is more suited for me though.

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  picturenet · Member · Jan 14, 2006 at 2:05 am

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  Right, that’s http://www.pbase.com Sorry.
  I haven’t tried flickr.

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  silkenhut · Member · Mar 5, 2006 at 4:56 pm

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  imagevenue.com is also a nice image host. generates thumbnails too