I used to do creative/cropped thumbs thinkin it added a bit of mystery ...hoping viewers would be "pulled in"! Like giving them just a li'l taste of the image. It just became too much work for me. Most software apps can do batch resizes of images now, so I can resize a bunch of pics in no-time! I would LOVE auto thumbnails implemented here at Render! Preferable on ALL uploaded images for consistency sake! This would eliminate those "trick" type images talked about above where the thumb really have no relation to the actual image posted! This would also stop the "blank" thumb thing that happens quite alot here with gallery images too,many of which get skipped over because they have no thumbnail. Another thing this would possible help with is site speed in general, creating a thumb "on the fly" instead of uploading 2 images for each post!