posted under category: ColdFusion on September 13, 2004 by Nathan
I've been playing and tinkering just a bit with the Alagad Image Component. It's a nice tool, but making thumbnails with it is tricky, and the output tends to be ugly. Here's my work-around for resizing an image with this thing.
That's it. For every 500 pixels, you blur it one pixel before you size it down to make your thumbnail. YMMV, but 500px seems to be the sweet spot for me.
Nathan is a software developer at The Boeing Company in Charleston, SC. He is essentially a big programming nerd. Really, you could say that makes him a nerd among nerds. Aside from making software for the web, he plays with tech toys and likes to think about programming's big picture while speaking at conferences and generally impressing people with massive nerdiness and straight-faced sarcastic humor. Nathan got his programming start writing batch files in DOS. It should go without saying, but these thought and opinions have nothing to do with Boeing in any way.
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