Online Thumbnail Creator Test
 

After running a couple of thumb preview TGPs I noticed a LOT of the real quality submissions didn't include a thumb preview. Do most webmasters not know how to crop an image or do they just not want to take the time to do it? Either way, I thought having a utility as part of the submission process that would allow the submitter to create a thumbnail relatively quickly might be a good idea.

If you have some time, try submitting a gallery and making a thumbnail in the process. Is this something that submitters would actually use? Give it a shot and let me know what you thing and if there is anything that it lacks (or if something doesn't work).

Here's the submit form.
http://www.madtgp.com/submit.shtml

Keep in mind this isn't quite ready for release yet and might act a little goofy from time to time. I am not really expecting to be able to post many/any of the galleries from this little test so feel free to have fun.

i am gonna test it out for ya now

Nice job it works like a charm

Good idea!:thumbsup

nice :)

Very nice - only thing I noticed was that once you select a pic to make a thumbnail, you have to go through the whole proceedure if you want to change it to a different pic (using a new URL in the "browse" section doesn't work - stays at the first image selected) and whereas Windows can accept URLS with wither "/" or "\", the script can't parse the forward slash.

Hi.

I am using Opera for submitting and your script doesnt work in it :(
I just can't drop the red square. I tried left click, enter, anything... it always sticks with the cursor...

Anyway, good idea. Of course little tweaking of the choosen thumb would be greatly appriciated, like contrast/brightness...

See you

Nope, doesn't work with opera. Probably never will. Opera does some weird shit so I doubt it will ever work.

You should consider that again. I am using Opera cause it's much better then fuckin' IE. Sure, it has compatibility issues, but it's 'must have' tool for all submitters... My oppinion, cause I am hand submitting sometime over 20 galleries per day to over 1000s of tgps, and I need only 4-5 hours for that (including mail confirm) with opera....

Regards

Until Opera starts handling a few things in a somewhat normal manner, there is absolutely nothing I can do about it. I would doubt that one would take the time to create a thumbnail online for each of the "1000s" of TGPs that you submit to anyway.