ASPThumb

This is a ASP, active X component that helps create thumbnails quickly and easily.

ASPThumb is an ActiveX component that allows ASP applications to create quality thumbnails. Any ASP application needing to create thumbnails for preview of images would be able to use this component. You could use other features such as scaling down images, cropping images, drawing borders around them, etc. drawing image border with custom color and width is also possible. The resulting thumbnail is created in JPEG format and can be saved into a file or binary variable as JPEG image. The component can load the BMP and JPEG images from files or binary variables. The file size versus quality settings can be made. Other formats handled by the tool include JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP and TIFF images.

For resizing the images and to retain quality despite re-sampling, image resizing algorithms like the Lanczos3 and Bilinear algorithms are implemented. Both 32 bit and 64 bit DLLs are supplied so that you are able to work with either version of the Windows. The tool will directly send the thumbnails to the browser. To create a thumbnail of an image using ASPThumb, there are just three steps required. Create an instance of the ASPThumb object. Then you need to load an image file via the Load method or assign the image data to BinaryData property. The resize method would create the resized image. All it needs then is to save the thumbnail with the Save method to the disk or directly to the browser or assign to a binary variable. This is a very good product and if you are looking for a tool like this, this could be it.

ASPThumb is an ASP component (ActiveX) that allows ASP application to create high-quality thumbnails. You can use this component for automated creation of image previews in your ASP applications. The component can scale down and crop images, draw image border, etc. The resulting thumbnail can be saved to file or binary variable as JPEG image. The component can load the BMP and JPEG images from files or binary variables.