I've read the tutorial on how to optimize my images for uploading onto renderosity, but am finding it tricky to get my thumbnails small enough to give a preview of my crappy newbee art. Anyone got a link to an easy to readshort write up on how to do this? I'm using imageready, if that helps.

I do not understand why you thumbs would be that big. Are you using Photoshop? or psp? either have a optimizing feature that should be able to easily make the image sized to fit. It is also easyer to not thumb the whole picture but a corner of it or a "teaser" of it. This way you do not have to worry about sizing the whole image and can get a good thumb for the gallery. I usually do this with opening a new window in psp. making it 150x200 and pasting a copy of the pic into it moving it around abit to get a good corner then I optimise that so that it fits with the specs for the gallery Hope this helps :)

yes it does. thank you

What I do (in ImageReady) is to size the pic (I gave up on teaser thumbs when I read that some people disapprove of them, and won't view pics unless the entire thing is in the thumb - still don't understand why, but there ya go!)so that the largest dimension is 200 pixels, and then change the jpeg quality to 'medium' - usually comes out around 5 - 6k that way. Then again, my images are rarely above 800 pixels in any direction - I like them to fit on to my screen! Hope tht helps, too! :)

You're better off using photoshop's 'save for web' function. It gives you smaller file size and much more control than image ready. ctrl-shift-alt-s brings up the dialog. mac

As far as I can tell, the Adobe ImageReady 'save optimised' and Photoshop's 'aave for web' are identical in function and result - at least they give the same results on my puter - YMMV!