D & S K's Sample Library Browser

This is a very small design project we are testing. A photo library provides a quantity of slides or scans (on Photo CD, or pre-compressed, as required). This could be up to 1,000 images. We write a linked set of HTML pages which show these in a VERY small GIF form.

We are considering either separate small thumbnails, clickable to access a positional JPEG (72 dpi, watermarked if necessary) or a strip GIF designed along the lines below, with captions to click:

Alternatively, each thumbnail can be separate, scrolling or laid out across the page, as an in-line graphic which is clicked to download the JPEG:

Tree in snow and ice, Derbyshire, UK

Sunflowers, Arles, Provence, France

Pussy girl

Colorful paintwork, Burano, Venice, Italy

Wet leaves, Argyll, Scotland, UK

The JPEG files have been compressed using Storm's Photoshop plug-in, which allows a caption to be incorporated and accessed. This may not work! They are all done to 75% (high) quality, which means JPEGs around 40-100Kb each depending on complexity of detail. We would advise libraries to use 25% (low) quality, with files around 20-25Kb resulting, which are better for rough layout without rights infringements.

PHOTON readers may use our JPEGs personally, in college or school etc printwork, or as examples. The tree and Burano pix are copyright Shirley Kilpatrick, the remaining three are copyright David Kilpatrick - please credit us if you make any use of them. We have about 20,000 slides - many unfiled, over the past ten years, due to lack of time - and generally our style is simple, clean colorful stuff with very few tricks.

If you're interested in having a browser collection in PHOTON, e-mail me (David Kilpatrick) and I'll send details. Comments on the two forms shown here, or other variations possible, would be welcomed.