Thumbnails are reduced-size versions of pictures An image is an artifact, for example a two-dimensional picture, that has a similar appearance to some subject—usually a physical object or a person, used to help in recognizing and organizing them, serving the same role for images as a normal text index An index is a list of words or phrases and associated pointers ('locators') to where useful material relating to that heading can be found in a document. In a traditional back-of-the-book index the headings will include names of people, places and events, and concepts selected by a person as being relevant and of interest to a possible reader of does for words. In the age of digital images A digital image is a representation of a two-dimensional image using ones and zeros . Depending on whether or not the image resolution is fixed, it may be of vector or raster type. Without qualifications, the term "digital image" usually refers to raster images also called bitmap images, visual search engines A web search engine is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. The search results are generally presented in a list of results and are often called hits. The information may consist of web pages, images, information and other types of files. Some search engines also mine data available in databases or open directories. Unlike Web and image-organizing programs normally use thumbnails, as do most modern operating systems or desktop environments, such as Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of software operating systems and graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal, Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, Mac OS X has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems. It is the successor to Mac OS 9, the final release of the "classic" Mac OS, which had been Apple's primary operating system since 198, KDE KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems. It is best known for its Plasma Desktop workspace, a desktop environment provided as the default working environment on many Linux distributions, such as openSUSE,, and GNOME GNOME (abbreviation of GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a desktop environment—a graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system—composed entirely of free and open source software. It was created by two Mexican programmers, Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena. It is an international project that includes creating.
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Overview
Some web designers produce thumbnails with HTML HTML, which stands for HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for web pages. It provides a means to create structured documents by denoting structural semantics for text such as headings, paragraphs, lists, links, quotes and other items. It allows images and objects to be embedded and can be used to create interactive forms coding that makes the user's browser shrink the picture, rather than use a smaller copy of the image. In principle the display size of an image in pixels should always correspond to its actual size, in part because one purpose of a thumbnail image on a web page is to reduce download time. The visual quality of browser resizing is also usually less than ideal.
Displaying a significant part of the picture instead of the full frame can allow using a smaller thumbnail while maintaining recognizability. For example, when thumbnailing a full-body portrait A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still of a person, it may be better to show the face slightly reduced than an indistinct figure. This has the disadvantage that it misleads viewers about what the image contains, so it is less well suited for searching or a catalogue than for artistic presentations.
In 2002 2002 was a common year that started on a Tuesday. In the Gregorian calendar, it is the 2002nd year of the Common Era, or of Anno Domini; the 2nd year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century; and the 3rd of the 2000s decade, the court in the US case Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corporation ruled that it was fair use Fair use is a doctrine in United States copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, such as for commentary, criticism, news reporting, research, teaching or scholarship. It provides for the legal, non-licensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in another author' for Internet The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by a broad array of electronic and search engines A web search engine is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. The search results are generally presented in a list of results and are often called hits. The information may consist of web pages, images, information and other types of files. Some search engines also mine data available in databases or open directories. Unlike Web to use thumbnail images to help web users find what they seek.
Etymology
A human Humans are a species of animal known taxonomically as Homo sapiens , and are the only extant member of the Homo genus of bipedal primates in Hominidae, the great ape family. However, in some cases "human" is used to refer to any member of the genus Homo thumb The thumb is the first digit of the hand. When a person is standing in the medical anatomical position , the thumb is the lateral-most digit. The Medical Latin English adjective for thumb is pollical nail In human anatomy, a nail is a horn-like envelop covering the dorsal aspect of the terminal phalanges of fingers and toes. Nails are also present in several other primates. Although not exclusive to primates, the development of nails is extremely rare in other mammals, from which the word "thumbnail", derives its meaning.The word "thumbnail" is a reference to the human Humans are a species of animal known taxonomically as Homo sapiens , and are the only extant member of the Homo genus of bipedal primates in Hominidae, the great ape family. However, in some cases "human" is used to refer to any member of the genus Homo thumb The thumb is the first digit of the hand. When a person is standing in the medical anatomical position , the thumb is the lateral-most digit. The Medical Latin English adjective for thumb is pollical nail In human anatomy, a nail is a horn-like envelop covering the dorsal aspect of the terminal phalanges of fingers and toes. Nails are also present in several other primates. Although not exclusive to primates, the development of nails is extremely rare in other mammals (such as the one in the picture to the right) and alludes towards the small size of the image or picture, comparable to the size of the human thumbnail.[1][2] While the earliest use of the word in this sense, dates back to the seventeenth century The 17th century was the century which lasted from 1601 to 1700 in the Gregorian calendar,[3] the American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms is reported to have documented that the expression first appears in the mid-1800s The 19th century was a period in history marked by the collapse of the Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Holy Roman and Mughal empires. This paved the way for the growing influence of the British Empire, the German Empire and the United States, spurring military conflicts but also advances in science and exploration to refer to 'a drawing the size of the thumbnail'.[4] The word was then used figuratively, in both noun A noun can co-occur with an article or an attributive adjective. Verbs and adjectives can't. In the following, an asterisk in front of an example means that this example is ungrammatical and adjective In grammar, an adjective is a word whose main syntactic role is to modify a noun or pronoun, giving more information about the noun or pronoun's referent. Collectively, adjectives form one of the traditional English eight parts of speech, though linguists today distinguish adjectives from words such as determiners that also used to be considered form, to refer to anything small or concise, such as a biographical essay. The use of the word "thumbnail" in the specific context of computer images as 'a small graphical representation, as of a larger graphic, a page layout, etc.' appears to have been first used in the 1980s The time period saw social, economic, and general change as wealth and production migrated to newly industrializing economies. As economic liberalization increased in the developed world, multiple multinational corporations associated with the manufacturing industry relocated into Thailand, Malaysia, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan, China, and new.[3]
Dimensions
- The Denver Public Library Digitization and Cataloguing Program produces thumbnails that are 160 pixels in the long dimension[5].
- The California Digital Library Guidelines for Digital Images recommend 150-200 pixels for each dimension[6].
- Picture Australia requires thumbnails to be 150 pixels in the long dimension[7].
- The International Dunhuang Project Standards for Digitization and Image Management specifies a height of 96 pixels at 72 ppi Pixels per inch or pixel density is a measurement of the resolution of devices in various contexts; typically computer displays, image scanners or digital camera image sensors[8].
- DeviantArt deviantArt is an online community showcasing various forms of user-made artwork. It was first launched on August 7, 2000 by Scott Jarkoff, Matthew Stephens, Angelo Sotira and others. deviantArt, Inc. is headquartered in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California, United States. As of October 2009[update] the site consists of over 11 million automatically produces thumbnails that are maximum 150 pixels in the long dimension.
- Flickr Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community created by Ludicorp and later acquired by Yahoo!. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media. As of October 2009 automatically produces thumbnails that are a maximum 240 pixels in the long dimension, or smaller 75×75 pixels. It also applies unsharp mask to them.
- Picasa Picasa is a image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website, originally created by Idealab and owned by Google since 2004. "Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa for "my house" and "pic" for pictures . In automatically produces thumbnails that are a maximum 144 pixels in the long dimension, or 160×160 pixels album thumbnails.
The term vignette is sometimes used to describe an image that is smaller than the original, larger than a thumbnail, but no more than 250 pixels in the long dimension.
Thumbnail sketchesThumbnail sketches
Art directors The term art director is a blanket title for a variety of similar job functions in advertising, publishing, film and television, the Internet, and video games and graphic designers Graphic design is a creative process — most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form — undertaken in order to convey a specific message (or messages) to a targeted audience. The term "graphic design" can also refer to a number of artistic and professional disciplines that use the term "thumbnail sketch" to describe a small drawing on paper (usually part of a group) used to explore multiple ideas quickly. Thumbnail sketches are similar to doodles, but may include as much detail as a small sketch.
References
- ^ "Online Etymology Dictionary". Online Etymology Dictionary The Online Etymology Dictionary is an online dictionary that describes the origins of English-language words. The abbreviation, OED, coincides with the frequently used acronym for the Oxford English Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=t&p=12. Retrieved March 5, 2010.
- ^ "AllWords.com". http://www.allwords.com/word-thumbnail.html. Retrieved March 5, 2010.
- ^ a b "Random House Word of the Day". http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19971211. Retrieved March 5, 2010.
- ^ "OPodictionary". http://podictionary.com/?p=202. Retrieved March 5, 2010.
- ^ http://photoswest.org/neh/036.htm
- ^ http://www.cdlib.org/inside/diglib/guidelines/bpgimages/reqs.html#guidelinesderiv
- ^ http://www.libraries.vic.gov.au/downloads/Victorias_Virtual_Library_Digital_Collection/digitisation.htm
- ^ http://idp.bl.uk/papers/standards.html
See also
- Image An image is an artifact, for example a two-dimensional picture, that has a similar appearance to some subject—usually a physical object or a person
- Image organizer An image organizer or image management application is application software focused on organizing digital images. Image organizers represent one kind of desktop organizer software applications
- Contact print, a film Photographic film is a sheet of plastic coated with an emulsion containing light-sensitive silver halide salts (bonded by gelatin) with variable crystal sizes that determine the sensitivity, contrast and resolution of the film. When the emulsion is sufficiently exposed to light (or other forms of electromagnetic radiation such as X-rays), it forms cognate of the thumbnail
- Thumbshots
- Thumbnail gallery post A thumbnail gallery post is a common type of ad-driven website that provides links to free Internet pornography. In affiliate marketing terms, TGPs are the affiliates that drive new traffic to the product producers, paysites. Paysites offer free hosted galleries (FHGs) in an effort to attract paying customers, and it's these FHGs, as well as, a type of website that links to galleries of thumbnails (usually pornographic or image search results)
- Digital asset management Digital asset management consists of management tasks and decisions surrounding the ingestion, annotation, cataloguing, storage, retrieval and distribution of digital assets. Digital photographs, animations, videos and music are samples of media asset management (a sub-category of DAM)
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Q. The often-deep cracks begin just where the top edges of my thumbnail meet the cuticles and continue toward the ball of my thumb. What causes this, how can it be avoided, and what can I do to treat it? I use iodine now. (Note: I do a lot of gardening but 50% of the time wear gloves.)
Asked by Lorraine - Tue May 6 00:46:14 2008 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments
A. They are called 'fissures' in the skin. Are you diabetic? It might be a symptom (But also might not, so don't freak) Try keeping a small tube of hand moisturizer in your pocket and use it frequently to keep your hands moisturized. Iodine will dry the skin out and make it worst. I am a nurse and spend my day pushing pills through sharp plastic bubbles into medicine cups. Both of my thumbs get this way. What I do, is put a little Neosporin Oint on the cracks and then wear a cotton glove (the thumb part) while I am relaxing and not using my hands. Carmex, the little round white tub of yellow stuff is also GREAT for healing the skin cracks. Try wearing bandaids on your thumbs under your gloves when you garden. Dirt has a lot of… [cont.]
Answered by ~Sera~ - Tue May 6 00:55:35 2008
