Image storage and retrieval

[RoyinForest]

I am trying to build a database for my digital photo collection.
(having pretty much gven up on the packages I see in the market)

Since most of the images reside on CD's and DVD's, I want to create
and store thumbnails and pointers (ie. location fully qualified name),
rather than a copy of the full image.

1. How do I define the fields in the table for the thumbnail, and the pointer?
2. How can I use the pointer value to retrieve the full image?

Any ideas and tips on where to start?

Thanks,

Roy

 

[Dennisk]

I use Adobe Elements 5 and the database is excelent. It uses Access as a backend.
To answer your question. Your will need to create all the thumbnails yourself and you will only be able to display selected file types ie .jpg, tiff, etc

All that is required is a text field to hold the path to the thumbnail, and a text field to hold the path to the full sized photo.

Search the forum as this problem has been answered many times

 

[smile]

I use Adobe Elements 5 and the database is excelent. It uses Access as a backend.
To answer your question. Your will need to create all the thumbnails yourself and you will only be able to display selected file types ie .jpg, tiff, etc

All that is required is a text field to hold the path to the thumbnail, and a text field to hold the path to the full sized photo.

Search the forum as this problem has been answered many times

Try http://www.whereisit-soft.com/ I have tried many packages before and this the one that I liked.