How to Make Thumbnails of Photos for a Website
It is not that difficult to make thumbnail size images using your image editing program like Adobe Photoshop or GIMP. However, you need to open each image separately, open the scaling menu, select the parameters and save the scaled image. This is easy if you have one thumbnail to make, but what if you have to make 100 for your website? NerdLib (nerdlib.com) offers a number of free software tools designed to help you build traffic to your website. One of them is the MT Thumbnail Generator, which allows you to select a number of images and generates all of the thumbnail images instantly (see link below).
Things You'll Need
- MT Thumbnail Generator from NerdLib Software
- Images requiring thumbnail creation
Instructions
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Open the MT Thumbnail Generator. Select the size of your thumbnail in pixels based on the design of your web page. You can also select a name to be appended to the file name. The default is thumb, but you can select any name. The thumbnail will be created in the directory of the originals and the append name will help you to distinguish between the full size and thumbnail image.
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Tips & Warnings
Works with most image formats including TIFF, RAW and NEF
Make sure you use an append name so you can easily see the difference between the original and thumbnail.
Use the default size if you are not sure what size thumbnail to specify.
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Comments
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tracysmith159
May 21, 2009
Great Article and steps on how to get thumbnail images on a web site. I have a lot to learn to launch my web site and this is a large help. -
JasneJ
Dec 04, 2008
Thanks Richard.I really appreciate your help.This look like the solution to my problem. -
JasneJ
Dec 04, 2008
Thanks Richard.I really appreciate your help.This look like the solution to my problem. -
momandpopoften
Aug 01, 2008
Great directions! -
momandpopoften
Aug 01, 2008
Great directions!