That's it in a nutshell. How do I take my 1024X768 poser image and create a thumbnail for the gallery section. I've looked at many thumbnail software and they all make gallery pages and not 1 single stand alone image. Any help out there/ thanks so much once again.

Cut only a part of the pic :)

So then I load the cropped image and the full image to the gallery?

Exactly. I have my templates for this on Photoshop. I draw pics also on 1024X768, and I select a 200X200 piece for my thumbnail and save it as a different file. And I upload both :)

Message edited on: 05/25/2005 06:04

Thank you

I agree with the above advice (i.e. either crop the image, or shrink the image to a size less than or equal to 200x200 pixels), but I have another addition: If you have Photoshop 7, use the "Save for Web" option for your thumbnail rather than the plain "Save" option. For some reason, the former option compresses the file size a lot more effectively than the latter. This is important as the thumbnail has to be less than 15 kilobytes.

again ....thank you all for responding

Hi,

If you have access to Paint Shop Pro then the following is what I do and is relatively painless:

1. Do your final full-size render to TIFF (which can be useful for alpha channel transparency and because it is not lossy, PNG is OK too, and have this as your archive copy of the render).
2. Open your full size final TIFF image in Paint Shop Pro.
3. Use the selection tool to select any size of (preferably) square region that will be your thumbnail. Most viewers like to have a sub-region thumbnail rather than the full image and you will probably get more views if you choose a tantalizing sub-region. It is best if this selected region is greater than or equal to the 200 x 200 pixel size.
4. Edit => Copy from the menu to copy the selection.
5. Now Paste the selection as new image.
6. Resize this new image to 200 x 200 pixels (if it was larger).
7. Now Save As... some_name_thumb.jpg remembering to use the advanced settings to make the JPG compression factor to 10% or higher. This helps make the file size below the 15KB limit.
8. Check the size of the image and re-save to lower (or higher) quality if the image size exceeds (or falls too short of) the 15KB limit.
9. Also save the original full-size image as a JPG but at a higher quality setting (suggest 3% compression to start).
10. Check the file size is just below the 512KB limit.

Hope this helps.