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Originally posted by AKFK
I would love to hear stock settings that are good for general gallery thumbnails.
I spend a lot of time going through ETC, Adobe, and Fireworks trying to get 125 x 125's that look great and are 4k or less.
Figure that the 1-2 kilobytes per thumb I can shave off my bandwidth bill may come in handy as I try promoting my stuff via TGP.
As it stands now, I have done some by hand and can usually get 4-5k looking great if I blur, sharped, and blend by hand. A lot of time though for my TGP promotional experiments...
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I just use photoshop all by itself, open image, start a new action binded to lets say F2, resize image so shortest side is 125, add a new layer, then change cavas size to 125 on longer then stop recording the action
move the image around so I have it placed properly. record a new action binded to lets say F3 then save-for-web, 45-50 percent corpession save to folder where I want it, close the image and stop recodring the new action
I create a catchall action for color correction too at time and bind it to it's own F-key. It's pretty simple but I get really good quality thumbs under 4k