# Making Thumbnails with RMagick

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/making-thumbnails-with-rmagick/96658>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 24, 2006, 5:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/making-thumbnails-with-rmagick/96658 "2006-01-24T17:34:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![tim-hunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@tim-hunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tim-hunter)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 5:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/making-thumbnails-with-rmagick/96658/1 "2006-01-24T17:34:20Z")

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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 🙂