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Poser - OFFICIAL F.A.Q (Last Updated: 2025 Jan 24 12:37 pm)
Immediate (unthinking) response: The image with the face catches my eye. The others don't.
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If I were browsing the gallery only the one with the face would catch my eye. I think it all depends on the overall image as I too like to 'tease' with partial thumbs. If it's just a portrait I'd like to see the whole thing in the thumb but if the image (like yours) has some nice detail with eye candy within then it's a pleasure to open up the whole image, it's like getting a bonus to enter!
Thumbnails of just a small piece of the image irritate me personally. I want to see half the image or more in the thumb. If you must to a close-up..use the arms folded over the boobs. Boob close-ups always work.
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The one with the face shows me enough of the image that I wouldn't go look at it bigger....even the others that show almost all of the dress do me the same way...no intrigue....the 3rd one (closer look of the shoe) gets my attention...makes me want to see what body is on that foot and what scene is attached to what looks like might be an interesting door....
None. I've clicked on way too many thumbnails where the thumbnail was the best part of the image, the whole thing was blah. I limit my clicking to thumbs that show the whole picture. My thumbs show the entire image and if that means someone won't click because they've seen it all so don't want to see the big version that's fine with me.
No question about it: The one that shows the girl's face. I have bypassed many thumbnails such as the others shown because of uncertainty of what the picture is about. [One reason for this is a slow system...don't want to sit for 4-min d/l to see if I was correct in my guess of what the image contained.] Out of boredom I have sometimes backtracked to a thumnailed pic that I passed to find a real work of art. I do believe that creating an effective thumbnail is an art in itself and should represent the graphic to invite viewing. It doesn't necessarily require full view of the picture but at least an overall idea of content. Your thumbnail is your promotional advertisement. This subject is one that rarely comes up, but might just be worth a small tutorial.
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The point is (as also mentioned in another thread recently) that some pictures "thumbnail" better than others.
Portraits for instance makes usually great thumbnails while large landscapes would turn into a blurry mess. Also sometimes you make an image to kinda surprise the viewer, not necessarily TRICKING people to look at what the "think will be someone nekkid", allthough I HAVE noticed that that sort of thumbnails generally gets a hicher click ratio.
Attached is an example of a pic that shows something else than what the viewer expects. At least from the comments and IM's I got ;o) Click it and see for yourself :o)
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