Hello im looking for a program that will take a whole DIR of images and turn them into thumbnails automatically. I perfere free but i just need something fast.

Thanks in advance
Eddy

Not sure if this might be what you're looking for, but take a look at http://isdntek.com/clicpic.htm

If you're talking about a server, ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/) is for you.

Otherwise you can look here (http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Graphics/Image_Manipulation/?tc=1).

ImageMagick!
And I use this galley php script - Free: http://gallery.menalto.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=index

I use one called Easy Thumbnails, its a free download from Tucows, tell it the directory where the pics are, where to put the thumbnails, a naming convention for the thumbnails, and it does them all in one shot. Handy little program.

If I'm not mistaken, IrfanView (http://www.irfanview.com) will do this.

I use ThumbsPlus for that :) http://www.cerious.com/

php has inbuilt functions for making thumbnails

I use Fireworks, because it is easy to use and quick, plus you can control all the important atributes of the 'thumbnails to be' images, not only can you take a whole directory of images, you can select images from any source to process at once

however, it is true, Fireworks does not support over 89 major formats like ImageMagic, but it does support the few I use like .gif and .jpeg

honestly I don't think I have ever published a format different to those two, still someone else might need to put a 50 MB .tiff image online just for fun

Airnine