Creating Thumbnails

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Screenshot Captor has some powerful functions to help you easily make small thumbnail images that look nice.

 

ThumbnailMaker ShuttleThumbnail

 

There are a lot of options in the Thumbnail Maker dialog.

 

Presets combo box - allows you to select from common sizes.
Preserve Aspect Radio - says to maintain the width x height ratio when resizing.
"But Stretch Up To" - allows an exception to the Preserve Aspect Ratio in order to fit the desired target size if only a few pixels are needed to do so (useful for achieving a target size).
Enlarge if Smaller - will enlarge the image to meet the desired size.

 

Visual Embelishments - lets you set Border Options and Shadows.
"Keep within Size Bounds" - if checked, then the thumbnail will be constrained to target size AFTER the effects are applied (otherwise effects may create a size larger than thumbnail target size).
Smoothing Filter - can be used to customize the resizing algorithm (for more info see here; very small images can look blurry with some filters).

 

File Suffix - this suffix will be added to the base filename when creating thumbnail files.