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When I prepare my own new submissions I quite often think already about the preview thumbnail during the process of the initial image selection!
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i try to do that too. but being a not so experienced gallery submitter and builder (admittedly) i forget about it until i get the gallery all built 50% of the time
i use thumbs plus cropping tool for all my thumbs. i go like this:
pick an appropriate larger picture (uncompressed original like you said). i usually make a hardcore and softcore for each different size except 90x130 - i only need softcore for that one.
transform > trim to exactly > 88 x 88 (or whatever)
then
expand the selection box to include the part of the pic i want in the thumb
then
transform > resize > 88 x 88
then
image > filter > sharpen even less
then i can usually save at about 90% and have it be well under 5kb
i just realized - i hope youre not referring to my thumbs lol
