create thumbnail by php or create thumbnail offline and ftp to the server?

[searain]

I am creating a real estate web site.

Create thumbnail from large images automatically by php using these php image functions or create thumbnail manually on desktop using photoshop etc. and then ftp upload to the sites?

What is your opinion?

1) thumbnail created by php.

It is easy to do. And we know which thumbnail point to which image. But how about the thumbnail qualities, how about the resource of the server when use php image functions?

2) thumbnails created manually by offline software and upload the the servers.

Question is, these thumbnails have to be named right so we will know which thumbnail point to which large image. A lot of human works here. But the quality of thumbnail could be good.

I guess if you are selling a house, you don't mind spending extra few minutes per image (4-10 images per house)?

Plus, will most hosting companies support the php image functions to read a image file and create a thumbnail? support png, gif, jpg format? If not, then I have to use ftp approach anyway.

Thanks!

[thorpe]

are you asking our opinions in regards to having your (dumb) clients (and we all know clients are dumb), taking there own photos, loading them into a $900 program (photoshop), having the ability to change them into thumbnails ("what is a thumbnail?" says client) and then you trusting this thumbnail?

i think your question (if i have it correct) answers itself.

[e4c5]

What you are looking for is an applet that has the ablity to resize images on the client end. That way you eliminate the need to write PHP code and you also eliminate the need to have very large files uploaded.

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