What's the secret to clear thumbs?
 

Can anyone tell me how to make thumbs that are super clear?

What happens to me is that I have a large image and I cut it into a rectangle to make the thumb and then I shrink it to make it thumbnail size. When I shrink it, the image becomes blurry. How do I keep it clear?


I do gallery reviews and I see the same webmasters consistenly sending crisp quality thumbs day after day. I don't think it's because that's how they bought them. I think they touch them up because another webmaster will submit the same content and it'll be grainy.

Sharpen them :D photoshop filters

You can also play with hue saturation brightness curves etc...

You definetly should learn atleast curves if you plan on making nice galleries

use a marquee and copy PART of the image then paste to a appropriate sized new file and save for web

OR you can get a thubnailer program that can do all this for you....

This guy makes the most incredible screen caps and thumbs

http://www.ramis-movies.com/main.htm

your right real nice thumbs coloring everythign.

send 1000 dollars to my paypal account and ill tell you :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

do you use the same curves settings for all the images or is it different for every pic?

That method is kickass! Doing that now and they're coming out great! :)
thanks


Unfortunately I'm on 5.0 and it doesnt have a "save for web" option, that I can see.
But I dont think (or know) if theres a difference of just saving the thumb as a jpeg or using the save for web feature (that I don't have)

FUCK! I spoke too soon

how do I save the new thumb as a jpg?
when I do save as the only option is to save it as a psd.

np

no jpg is jpg the "for web" just has different adjustments bit if your new clear jpgs fall within your personal gallery/page file size requirements, you will be fine using 5

file>save as

I can only "save as" a pdd or psd
wont let me save as a jpg :)