Well, I don't think part croping is necessarily aimed at deceiving or something. Like I love to put half a crescent of a circular flower as croped thumb. Idea is not to decieve but to view it in a diff perspective. like a half open page of a book sorta and nothing more. You can see the focus of my images in the thumb if not a complete resize of it. My personal experience with thumbs goes like this...... Some of the excellent thumbs of particullary landscape, don't look as cool when the whole image comes to view. Not underrating anyone but it is not deception either. It just happens to be so, thats all. :O)) SNAKEY