# Image Gallery with custom thumbs...?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/image-gallery-with-custom-thumbs/129946>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 22, 2008, 10:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/image-gallery-with-custom-thumbs/129946 "2008-02-22T22:46:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 10:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/image-gallery-with-custom-thumbs/129946/1 "2008-02-22T22:46:34Z")

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Hello all,

I’m fairly new to RoR, have done many different tutorials, but am now  
trying to build something on my own. I would like to create a  
portfolio gallery. I plan on using customized thumbs, not scaled, but  
custom cropped and resized in Photoshop. The reason for this is these  
will not be photos but portfolio pieces and I would like the thumbs to  
focus on a vital part of the piece. These will then link to the full  
sized image (maybe a lightbox plugin or something).

Now I’ve been searching for how’to’s and tutorials, but they all  
mention using plugins such as “file\_column” or “Attachment-fu” along  
with an image processor (ImageMagick and such). Do I need to use these  
tools to achieve my goal? Seeing as I will upload a full sized image  
and a thumbnail image, I’m thinking I don’t need the image processor  
for this. But the plugins look like they will help with file storage  
options. I would appreciate any input on this (code examples would be  
fantastic. =P) .thanks!