6 Best And Free Tools To Make Thumbnail For Large Images, Photo Albums, Websites, Videos And PDFs

Thumbnail is the reduced-size version and is used as a compact representation of a larger image. Recently, this concept has been widened and can be applied to other objects aside image. You can make thumbnails for a collection of photos, video, website, and even a book (PDF). These applications gathered here are free and most downloaded to help you make thumbnails.

1. Moo0 ImageThumbnailer is a software that enables you to easily create image thumbnails in HTML format. It is very easy to use, and you just need to drag and drop files onto this software. It is useful not only to publish pictures on the Web but also to manage pictures in local file directories.

2. RightThumb was designed to be a simple context menu program to quickly create a thumbnail from a graphic file. It can identify and create a thumbnail from wide range of graphic formats (Bitmap, JPEG, GIF or PNG) or it can be copied to clipboard ready to paste. In options, you can set the maximum width and height of the thumbnail and the format to save. If you select 'Save to clipboard', the thumbnail will not be saved as a file but saved to the clipboard.

3. Web Page Thumbnails will help you grab resizable thumbnails of web pages. As a matter of fact, you will simply need to navigate to the webpage you want using the integrated web browser. Wait for the page to load, press the Capture button and save a high-quality thumbnail of the HTML page.

4. WebShot is a program that allows you to take screenshots and thumbnails of web pages or whole websites. It also comes with a command line interface for advanced users. The following image formats are supported GIF, JPG, PNG, BMP.

5. Video Thumbnails Maker can help your to easily make thumbnails of your movies. It allows you to make thumbnails (caps, previews, screen-lists) and screenshots of video files. Yet it can also can be used for home-video cataloging and for network video sharing support.

6. PDF Thumbnail Generator helps you create thumbnail for you PDF documents. Thumbnail can be generated from a bitmap (.BMP) or a JPEG (*.JPG) or even a EMF (Encapsulated Meta File). Once created, thumbnails are then embedded into your PDF files, you will see the thumbnails displayed on the left column of your PDF Reader.