Thumbizy: Instant Website Thumbnail Generator

I know I am going to use this often! If you create presentations for societies, or if you write a blog that mentions other web sites, you will want to take a look at Thumbizy.

Thumbizy is a free, instant website thumbnail generator that can help you to take snapshots of any website. You only need to give the URL of the web site and select the thumbnail size. Thumbizy will instantly provide you a screenshot of your given web site. You can store locally, and then insert it into a web page, a PowerPoint presentation, a word processing document, or anyplace else you might need it.

Thumbizy is purely cloud-based. All the software is stored in a web server someplace; there is no software to install on your local computer. Thumbizy works well with Windows, Macintosh, and Linux systems.

To use Thumbizy, you go to the web site at http://www.thumbizy.com, enter the URL of the site you wish to capture, select from a few options, and then click on GO. A short time later the thumbnail appears on your screen. You can then right-click on the image and follow the menus to save the image to your hard drive.

Simple and free. That's what I like about useful programs.

I have included a few samples of thumbnail images I created with Thumbizy.

Comments

[Steve]

You can also press ALT+PrintScreen and just take your own screenshot, and crop it in your editor if you want. Seems to take about the same time?

[Dick Eastman]

---> You can also press ALT+PrintScreen

That works only on Windows (although Macintosh also has a different screen shot capture with lots of options). However, that only saves full-sized images. Thumbizy is designed to create thumbnail images.

- Dick Eastman

[Kathy Tabb]

I've tried this on several web pages but can't open any of the saved files. Wonder what I'm doing wrong?

[Martha]

I think they need to tweak this a bit. I got my thumbnail and clicked on the option to save it to my desktop. When I tried to open the .jpg, my Mac said it was not openable. [I think I made up that word!] In any event, their thumbnail program seems to be a bit flawed.

[Ian Singer]

The first time I told it to save I could not find it. The second time Firefox asked if I wanted to save and it did save and I could see the file name which was a bunch of letters instead of somethingt like "preview of xyz_com.jpg". Windows media viewer says there is no preview available and could not open the file.
Photoshop could but as I had said to save the whole page in the smallest size it was pretty useless.

[Pam]

I like this a lot --- I couldn't get it to save the photo by using their button to save to hard drive, but if I just right-clicked and saved, it worked fine. A real time saver.

[joana]

I believe I do this on my Mac using command, shift, 4 and choosing the entire screen shot or any portion of it I can then enlarge or shrink that screen shot with command and the + or - keys and then use command ,shift ,4 again to select that. Getting exactly the size I want.

[joana]

Possibly your announcing this has overburdened the site but it will not let me write the url to take a thumbnail image of. Then when I tried contacting them it let me put in all my personal info but not write the message itself. Might be valuable ???

[Claire Bettag]

On a Mac one of the screen captures is accomplished with Apple+Shift+4. You select what you want to capture, and then you can re-size it into a thumbnail.
Claire

[GMF]

All I can do is draw a blank. Maybe it's status as a Beta is indicative of its capability right now.

[Jerome]

Hi there.

So thank you for the thread about Thumbizy.

This service is still in dev and it actually running on a single server. When many people try to use thumbizy at the same time, it may take a while to generate a thumb or crash some times.

But since one year the service has generated a lot of thumbs and it works when the server doesn't burn...

I'am still working for the first release when i got some free time and i hope to put it online asap.

Feel free to contact me if you want more informations about the first RC.

Thanx again for your messages about this BETA
(the correct words would be "experimental" & "crashing version" & "omg" "it sucks doesn't it ?")