Chameleon question about custom thumbs
 

Hey everyone, I'm checking out Chameleon, but it seems it wants to make thumbnails for me.. I don't want it to make thumbs, I just want it to take my existing galleries and inject the recips and submit. Will it do this?

I'm impatient, what can I do. :)

It is eazy ... select step2 (Samples), then choose 2257 compliant thumbnail or Default thumbnail (lets start with 2257 thumb). Then click "select the sample thumbnails from your local drive" and selest pre-made thumbs on you hdd. THan you can click to "Complete full URL automatically" Now do the same with default thumbnail and you are done. basically ... you just avoid clicking "Select and crop an image from your gallery". You can contact me if you need anything elso (see sig)

It needs to make new thumbs because the various TGPs require you to submit different sizes, you can't just use one size for all of them (as far as I remember)

Ahhhhh I see, yeah that's a good point.. I'll try both ways and see what I come up with!

what was the out come ? I am also considering Chameleon, but seems little confusing

Ok here's what I've learned as a complete veteran noob to galleries so far.

You can use chameleon to pretty much do everything but design your gallery template. We made a custom system that we just upload a zip of 20 or so images to our server, and then it automatically unzips, renames, copies, creates various thumb sizes, and puts them in a standard template with the proper site calls from our DB.

The result is like this: http://www.pornsumer.com/galleries/big-naturals/1/

So what I wanted to do was just have Chameleon take this page, inject the recips, re-write me some HTML files and then submit them.

Unfortunately these galleries above don't really have an .html file I can download, they're all created on the fly, so we have to write something that will generate an index.html for each gallery, for Chameleon to work with.

As for thumbnails, the thumbs I already have created are fine using our system, so apparently we just use Chameleon to create 2 "thumbnail preview" images for TGP's to use on their front page, to link the galleries with.

So I'm almost there, but need physical .html files atm. Thanks for everyone's help.

no worries, its not difficult, the tool is very clean and user friendly. if you have any further questions, feel free to ask