                               INTRODUCTION

Did  you  ever try to view your collection of images, that contains thousands of
pictures,  all at once? Did you ever need to select just several icons from your
icons collection? Then EldoS Thumbnailer is for you.

This  handy  utility shows all images in the folder at once, shrinking pictures,
if necessary. When you need to view one of the images, you just click on it, and
see the image in details. Several types of images (i.e. GIF, ANI and ICO images)
that  support  animation  can  be  shown  as  animated  or  frame-by-frame. Icon
files, containing several icons, can be shown too.

EldoS  Thumbnailer  is  for Everyone, who has a collection of images and browses
them from time to time, and is especially useful for

*  Programmers,  who  often  need  to  select  a  proper icon or image for their
applications
*  Web-designers,  who  usually keep a large collection of split lines, bullets,
arrows  and  other  types  of  graphics,  needed  to make the site beautiful and
original.

EldoS    Thumbnailer    is  designed  especially  for  those  people,  who  like
easy-to-use programs that can do much.

EldoS  Thumbnailer  can be used not to only view images, but also organize them.
You  can  perform  all  file  and folder operations, that are allowed in regular
Explorer.  You  can  create, move and delete folders. You can also select one or
more images, and copy, move or delete them.

EXE,  DLL  and  ICL  files  are  represented  as  virtual  folders,  simplifying
extraction of the icons from these files.

                               INSTALLATION 

To  install  EldoS Thumbnailer just start eltninst.exe. You will be prompted for
the foder to install EldoS Thumbnailer to.


                                  USAGE

EldoS  Thumbnailer  has  Explorer-like  interface,  so we expect that it will be
simple  for  you  to  use  EldoS Thumbnailer. In case of any difficulties please
refer  to  Help  file.  you can invoke Help by pressing F1 button or selecting a
Help Topics item in Help menu.


                                 LICENSE

EldoS  Thumbnailer  is  not a public domain application! Please read license.txt
for licensing terms. See register.txt for registration information.


                                 CREDITS         

EldoS  Thumbnailer  was  created by Viktor Trunov (trunov@eldos.org). Please use
this  address  only  to  thank him for the program. All other information can be
obtained using:

E-Mail:        info@eldos.org
Support:       support@eldos.org 
Feedback form: http://www.eldos.org/feedback.html
Web-site:      http://www.eldos.org/elthumbs/elthumbs.html

Copyright (c) 1999-2001, EldoS