# Making Thumbnails with RMagick

**URL:** <https://rubytalk.org/t/making-thumbnails-with-rmagick/24283>\
**Category:** ruby-talk\
**Created:** [24 January 2006 15:46 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/making-thumbnails-with-rmagick/24283 "2006-01-24T15:46:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tim\_Hunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7feea3/32.png) [@Tim\_Hunter](https://rubytalk.org/u/Tim_Hunter)\
**Post date:** [24 January 2006 15:46 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/making-thumbnails-with-rmagick/24283/1 "2006-01-24T15:46:10Z")

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I notice that RMagick seems to be mostly used for making thumbnails of JPEG images for web pages, so I thought it might be useful to do some benchmarking of the 4 resizing methods in RMagick. The results are at [http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/resizing-methods.html](http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/resizing-methods.html). If this is something that interests you, please give it a read and let me know what you think.

P.S. If you just want the quick answer, here it is: don't use resize, use thumbnail.

P.P.S However, if you don't go to the web page, you won't get to see a picture of me at the Grand Canyon 🙂