Lack of consistency with thumbnails!

[wce]

The lack of consistency when purchasing layouts is driving me nuts! I've bought a lot of layouts lately and the so called 'thumbs' are nothing more than a duplicate of their bg.jpg (and with some of these the thumb is bigger than the background itself!) That is NOT a thumbnail. A thumbnail should be a screenshot of the layout on a myspace page. Can we please get some consistency!

Thanks, just wanted to vent :)

If anyone does thumbnailing, could you please PM me and let me know what it'll cost. Thanks :)

[minnseoelite]

i have noticed this as well some of the thumbs are 250x250 some are 400x300 and some are even 600x400...wtf.

I think the designers should gather and decide what size to make their thumbs when doing layouts. Personally I like 350x300 thumbs

[shimmeringgraphix]

I like thumbs to be a consistent width of 300px...

[Sergio]

I like mine 150x150.

[wce]

I would prefer the thumb size to be large, as I can always run a single command on the server to make them smaller while maintaining a nice quality. If the thumbs start off small, resizing and stretching them to a larger quality makes it look like crap.

My problem is people simply copy their bg.jpg and call it a preview. Especially after they show a thread with real thumbnails, then you get the pack and it doesn't have real thumbnails.

For those of you that want your thumbs a particular size, if you have imagemagick on your server I can show you how to resize them all with a single command.

[George]

I would prefer the thumb size to be large, as I can always run a single command on the server to make them smaller while maintaining a nice quality. If the thumbs start off small, resizing and stretching them to a larger quality makes it look like crap.

My problem is people simply copy their bg.jpg and call it a preview. Especially after they show a thread with real thumbnails, then you get the pack and it doesn't have real thumbnails.

For those of you that want your thumbs a particular size, if you have imagemagick on your server I can show you how to resize them all with a single command.Agreed, plus not all of us use screenshots of the full design for thumbs. Some use crops of the BG or network image.

There's no way you can standardize it as different people use different styles on their sites.

[RKGraphics]

i just saw this. i bought a pack where the thumbs take up the full screen. AND, can i add that a lot of my css files have links to other sites, now i have 700+ css files to go and remove their links. where it says "i created my profile at...." it auto ads the correct url but has 5+ of their own links in there.

i would contact the seller, but i already renamed everything so i dont know who its from :(

consistency from sellers with layouts is a huge thing.

[minnseoelite]

yeah, i agree when you purchase a pack of layouts i don't think you should have to go back and edit out all the sellers link back codes. thats just nonsense