Hands up: who's using the capture tool for submit thumbs

[hermit]

When I prepare my own new submissions I quite often think already about the preview thumbnail during the process of the initial image selection!

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