Whats the easiest way to create a thumbnail of your image? Bryce5 Painter5 photoshop LE 2 Thanx Dave

I personally use Corel Photopaint, but I would think PS would work to. Either reduce your image to the largest demension of 200 pixels and save or crop out a detail area of your pic and reduce that to 200x200. I have lately been creating a new layer in Corel PP and making a perfect square on it, placing the square over the area I want as a thumbnail, then using the square to make a mask. Then crop the image to that mask. Then reducing the image to 200x200. (dont forget to SAVE AS with a new image name for the thumb so you dont replace the original image. I always use the image name_tn.jpg.) After you have it at 200x200, you may want to sharpen the image a bit and then save it and use a bit of compression to reduce the file size.

the easiest way is go to www.download.com and download free software called " Easy Thumbnails ". It does all the hard work for you. Just click and it's done

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I do it in Photoshop, although I use PS7. Generally, I put a selection of the size for the thumbnail over an interesting area of the image, then copy and paste to a new image and "Save for Web" (a feature that's been in Photoshop since version 6 or so, or maybe 5.5). I also sometimes use the "Crop" tool, setting it to the dimensions I want and then just sizing it over an area that I think would make a good thumbnail. Crop, save, done. bonni

Thanx for everybodys help.I discovered by making a clone then resizing it in painter works well for me. Thanx dlb