Creating Thumbnails

Thumnails are smaller versions of larger graphic images that are often used to link to the larger image of the image.

We will be creating thumbnail versions of all of your graphics that you have on your graphics page. We will also be placing the thumbnail pictures in a table as a way to organize your pictures.
Also, please look at Mr. Lamothe's Graphics Page for an example of how thumbnails can be placed into at table and used to link to a larger version of the image: Mr. L's Graphics Page
Another example of using thumbnail images to link to a larger image can be seen on Mr. Lamothe's images page.
You will also need to read up on Using Tables

1. Open you Photoshop version of your image and save it as a .jpg file.
   NOTE: Photoshop files cannot be seen on web pages. You need to save them as .jpg files.
   
   
2. Open the .jpg version of all your graphic images on your graphics page. Some of the list below we have done already and some we will be doing. This should include:
   1. Alien Landscape(s)
   2. Graphic Re-creation of one of Mr. L's Photographs
   3. Still Life of Flowers, Cow, Flamingo, Duck, etc.
   4. Other images you have created
   5. Photographics that you have taken
   
   
3. Choose one of the pictures and go to Image, then Image Size.
   
   
4. A window will pop up that looks like the window below. Make sure the width and the height say pixels. Change the width to 100 pixels. The height should automatically be changed if the box that says Constrain Proportions is checked. If it isn't checked, please put a check in it. It is is checked, Photoshop automatically adjusts the height to the same proportion/aspect ratio as the larger image. At the bottom of the window, change the Resample Image choice to say, Bilinear.
   See Image Below
    
   
   
5. Click OK, then click File, then Save AS. Make sure you click SAVE AS, and not just Save.
   
   
6. Change the name by adding the work thumbnail at the end. For example, if your file is named garden_scene.jpg, change the name to say garden_scene_thumbnail.jpg.
   
   
7. Repeat the above process for all of your images that are on your graphic's page and on your photographs page.
   
   
8. When you are finished with that, go to the below link on using tables and follow the directions for inserting a table into your graphics page. Please insert the table at the top of your graphics page above the images that you already have there. Using Tables.