Generate thumbnails from one or more pictures with custom size values and restrictions, pick a different output format, while triggering the process from the context menu. #Image to Thumbnail #Image Sizer #Thumbnail Creator #Image2Thumbnail #Thumbnail #Creator
Most websites that provide preview of content through pictures don’t use the whole image for small areas, because it can take some time to load, and is not quite a practical method. Instead, smaller versions known as thumbnails are used, and even Windows generates them for preview. To quickly build such files, you can rely on RightThumb.
You can take the application wherever you go on a USB flash drive, because it doesn’t ask you to go through a setup process to function. This also means that you don’t have to worry about affecting the stability of the target PC, because registries are not a dependency here.
What’s more, you don’t even need to use the application’s main window, since it cleverly integrates in the system context menu to provide quick access to its set of features. However, you might want to open the main window at least the first time, so you can configure the way thumbnails are generated, and where.
Depending on where you want to use the new thumbnails, size specifications let you manually write down the width or height to represent the maximum point the image is stretched. What’s more, you can pick from various different preset resolutions, or proportions like half or quarter of the original picture.
Moreover, file support gives you the possibility to have thumbnails generated under different formats, such as BMP, JPEG, GIF, or PNG. Renaming options usually add a “th” at the end, but you’re free to use a prefix, or suffix of custom characters. To preserve quality, you can set it manually, or use one of several resample filters like Lanczos3, Box, Triangle, Hermite, Bell, or Mitchell.
Taking everything into consideration, we can say that RightThumb is a practical application you can use to generate thumbnails for one or more pictures at a time. You don’t even depend on the main window for this operation, since it’s triggered from the context menu, while portability adds a lot to both flexibility and practicality.
What's new in RightThumb 1.4:
- As a result of a comment on SnapFiles, I have introduced the option of more easily creating a common size copy in place of specifying a maximum thumbnail dimension. I had not envisaged RightThumb being used to create other than thumbnails but adding this option does not dilute its original aims. I have only added the more common sizes. NOTE that setting a fixed size option other than 'No Fixed Size' will over-ride the thumbnail dimensions and that fixed sizing may distort the picture as it may not be proportional resizing.
- Ronnie Lane pointed out that it wasn't possible to force the maximum dimension to be either width or height. As a result I have introduced the option of letting the program use the largest dimension or force it to use either width or height as the maximum dimension. The output still retains its original proportions.
RightThumb 1.4
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- file size:
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- filename:
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