Create Thumbnails

Speed up your site and attract more visitors with optimized thumbnails! See how reaConverter makes thumbnail creation fast and easy.
Using good quality thumbnail images is a good way to improve the visibility and traffic to your website, since visual search engines use these smaller-sized images to give searchers an idea about your content. Due to their limited size, thumbnails take less time to load and can save significant time while browsing.
A list of relevant thumbnails functions as an index for a particular type of content when doing a search, so optimizing thumbnails will give your website a better chance to attract users.

How to create thumbnails for your images?

1. Open Images

Load one or more images you intend to process. You can add them manually, add entire folders or use the handy drag-and-drop tool.

2. Use thumbnails settings

Go to the Menu button and then press Saving settings

Here you can find the Thumbnails tab, which will allow you to create a reduced-size version of the processed images. In this window you can customize the location of the thumbnail, its size, and a pattern for its filename. Some of the available options include using the name of the original file as part of the thumbnail's name, information about the date and time, or EXIF data. After you're done with these options, click the OK button and proceed with the conversion process.

3. Start conversion

Pick a location for the converted images. Last but not least, decide on the extension of the output images by simply choosing it in the lower part of the screen.

Finally, click the Convert button and soon enjoy both your converted images and their thumbnail versions.

Video tutorial

reaConverter offers a customizable and easy-to-use feature for creating thumbnail versions of your images.

Create thumbnails with command-line tool

You can make tumbnails using command-line interface, either manually or through automated scripts. reaConverter Pro includes a command-line tool called cons_rcp.exe — an advanced feature designed for professional use, available exclusively in the Pro edition.

Conversion example:

cons_rcp.exe -s "C:\Path_to\input_file.jpg" -o "C:\Path_to\output_file.jpg" -create_thumbnails 1

Manual

-create_thumbnails
  where value = 1 if you want to create thumbnails and = 0 otherwise
-thumbnails_folder
  where value = path to thumbnail image files you want to be saved
-thumbnails_width
  where value = thumbnail width
-thumbnails_height
  where value = thumbnail height
-thumbnails_resize_type
  where value = 1 - both Height and Width (without keepping aspect), 2 - Height (keepping aspect), 3 - Width (keepping aspect), 4 - both Height and Width will be used (with keepping aspect)
-thumbnails_do_not_resize_if_less
  where value = 1 do not resize images if they are less than thumbnail width/height and = 0 otherwise
-thumbnails_mask
  where value = thumbnail filename mask
-thumbnails_counter
  where value = counter used in the "Thumbnails_Mask" option
-thumbnails_ext
  where value = Thumbnail file type can be jpg, gif or png
-thumbnails_jpg_quality
  where value = Quality for JPG thumbnails (from 1 to 100%)
-thumbnails_first_page_only
  where value = 1 to create thumbnails for first page only and = 0 otherwise

You are welcome to contact our technical support when you have any questions about reaConverter.

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