Some good thoughts here. Thanks to everyone who replied. Just to keep this on topic. What I am curious about mostly is if by editing our art work, such as we do when we create the thumbnail, we are actually making it better. I some times find myself not wanting to trim my full render down, when maybe I should, if it would make it better. As for the rage about thumbnails, this one has been ongoing as to whether it should be preview of the full image or a bit of a tease. I think that is going to boil down to individual likes. What settletim said rings true for me as well. Often I see a thumbnail and it looks really interesting. Then when I click on it and see the whole picture I find myself thinking, hmm, if only they had cropped it so that it was more like the thumb, it would have been so much better. It has to do with focus of attention I think. With the thumbnail we are narrowing the focus to something specific. But often the full image has so much to draw the eye in so many different directions that I think it perhaps makes for poorer composition. Just my opinion.