funny question

Hello, this is kinda a funny question, but Im in the process of building a portfolio and have a question about resizing a copied screen. I want a small little thumnail of the sites Ive done. I hit the print screen button and paste it into photoshop, but when I resized it to around 130x90, it loses a tremendous amount of quality. So basically, how do all the great porfolios out there get such crisp thumnails? Any ideas?

Thanks a lot
Adam

For my thumbnail images I usually make the selection I want as the thumbnail then I do Image>Crop. After that I size it down to 50x50, or whatever . Go to my site and look at Pets, Photography, or Tutorials for examples. :p

yeah I just take part of the image and make that a thumbnail. I don't shrink the whole thing.

Alpha, is that a Butt with a face on it? lol...i just noticed!

yeah it is. I just noticed that the other day ;)

You'll get your best quality if you don't reduce the image's size all in one go.

First reduce 50%, then by 50% again...continue until you get close (but not smaller than the final size) then reduce to final size.

did you cut out all the extra stuff, browser, scrollbars, etc?

Hey it is a not a butt, it's my fac..err butt. Killer manip eh?

Yea, I just cropped a specific part of my pages and reduced it from there, didnt lose as much quality. Thanks for all your comments!

Adam