Ive only 2 images in my gallery so far, but one thumbnail is a crop, the second the entire image shrunk with proportions constrained and sharpening filters applied.

I cropped the first cause I wanted to use the "hint/tease of image". I would have preferred that for the second as well but was too lazy for resizing a potential slice so I ended up doing a full image reduction.

Id say the art produced here is far to varied for it to be possible to establish a preview standard beyond image size and diminsion limitations. What I DO think should be a respected and followed standard in thumbnails is the visual content. It seems to me to be senseless to have a Nudity tag checked with a thumbnail showing nudity. You see BOTH the warnings and the preview thumb AT THE SAME TIME as does anyone in range of your monitor. Some of us arent opposed to artistic nudity, but want to control when we view it. Having unedited thumbnails takes this control away from us.

I would like to implore all of my fellow artists: Make all the beautiful art you wish. Enjoy whatever genre you wish as is YOUR RIGHT!!! But Please, respect your viewers, respect the possibility they may have children, unappreciate of art significant others, or Mrs. Grundy unexpectedly around when browsing thumbs! Respect the fact that we have a wonderful gallery FREE for our own use and the team of SysAdmins, Moderators, Coordinators that has made it all possible for us, but has also set standards as is THIER RIGHT!! We have nudity and violence tags for a reason. Its pretty dishonorable to slip under the wires of these clear rules with racy thumbnails. I dont really want to deny myself lots of art by using filters just to avoid thumbnails that are, when all is said and done, a violation of the rules here.

Im sure that ive cheesed of some people with this post. Thats not my intent. I just can see a future where we can all contine to enjoy this site and people can expose themselves to a maximum of fine art - it just requires a reasonable amount of respect and self control on everyone's part.

Just my two cents :)

Logan