ok this is going to sound really stupid but how do i make a thumbnail pi so i can post some of my work in the gallery? any help would be appreciated. THANKS!!!!!!

I usually take my render and open it in Painshop Pro, Photopaint, Photoshop or whatever program you like to use and resize the image. almost always with bilineair filtering. The size of the tumbnails have a maximum size of 200x200 pixels. Sometimes I cut out a small part of the image and make a tumbnail showing only part of the scene.

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It depends a bit on the image what resize methods works best. Bilineair and Bicubic are the two mostly used high-quality resize algorithms. And if I remember correctly B-spline is very good too, but I'm not completely sure about that. Somethimes bilineair tends to get less sharp and sometimes Bicubic is less sharp.

If you don't have any other program go to the top of your screen so the menubar appears. Click on the "files" menu and pull down to the "document setup" heading. A window shows up with the page dimensions. Change to a smaller dimension and render the scene. Save the resulting image under a different name than your final render. I usually add tm for thumb after the original name like "space.jpg" for the original and "spacetm.jpg" for the thumb. It makes the thumbs easier to find if you have a lot of files in the directory. Either resize again and save the file or quit and don't save your changes to keep the original rendersize.

One VERY IMPORTANT thing to remember when you re-size an image down to a thumbnail, save the result as a new filename! (you would be very unhappy to have the litttle itty bitty image overwrite you nice big one...) (I did this once...)

Me, I just let my trusty PSP 6 do the "smart size" thing and not worry about which method... But sometimes the process softens up things a bit. So I add a touch of sharpening after the image is made smaller. Other than that, I like adding my name to the thumb and/or some goofy visual effect... I suppose it's to make the person wandering the pages curious as to what the pic is exactly. Regardless of how you make 'em, thumbnail images usually help; it seems the pictures with 'em get more views.