Help with thumbnails...please

I'm trying to make a thumbnail picture of a web site of mine for my portfolio and am having trouble keeping the image clear. What I'm doing is taking a screen shot of my site and then cropping a section of it and then resizing it to 73x46 pixels. However once I do that the quality goes down the drain. Is there any way to keep the quality?

Thanks for the help

Well, a possible solution is not to resize them. Instead, from the full screenshot, crop part of it for a thumbnail, make it something that someone will want to click. Works for me =)

Ya, I was thinking that...but would rather be able to resize it because that will give people more to look at.

Thanks

Thats what I did HERE

NOTE: that page is old, fugly, and not updated...just an example.

Originally posted by jimmy
However once I do that the quality goes down the drain. Is there any way to keep the quality?

When you resize a large image to that size, there is no possible way to retain the original image quality. You're decreasing the amount of available pixels for Photoshop to draw so sharpness, quality, focus, and readability (if it contains text) goes down the drain. The only way to cope with the downside of thumbnails is to accept the low quality or, as sidez mentioned, crop out a small section that would attract the visitor and use that as the thumbnail.-