Hamish Bowles

Occasionally, I will come across something that has lost its label over the years - maybe the client didn't want to declare the dress at customs and took the label out - but I'll recognize it from an image that I've seen in Vogue, or a little thumbnail sketch.

English Journalist

Albert Finney

I think that one of Tim's great qualities and abilities is in what seems like a thumbnail sketch to get something quite telling, very simply, when you're doing it or being in that thumbnail sketch, you don't feel that it's important.

British Actor

Raina Telgemeier

I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!

American Cartoonist

Connor Franta

I could Photoshop for hours. I spend way too much time making thumbnails. I spend, like, two hours on my thumbnails sometimes just because it's, like, fun.

American Entertainer

Craig Sager

I can't even use a can opener. I'm mechanically challenged. I ripped off two thumbnails trying to change kids' bicycle chains.

American Journalist

David Benioff

Simon Critchley's 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' - it's a quick thumbnail sketches of philosophers through the ages.

American Novelist

Thumbnails are often clickable and used for navigating to the full image or related content.

Online Navigation

Thumbnails save screen space while allowing you to browse multiple images at once.

Space Saver

A thumbnail gallery provides a preview of a collection of images.

Gallery Preview

As an adjective, thumbnail can describe a condensed version that gives a quick understanding.

Brief Summary

Thumbnail sketches or summaries omit details and offer only the bare outline.

Basic Outline

Think of thumbnail as a 'snapshot' or 'teaser' of the full content.

Snapshot Approach

In its simplest, original form, it refers to the fingernail on your thumb.

Literal Meaning

Actions involving the thumbnail can convey emotions or habits, like nervousness.

Expressive Gestures

 come around just like throwing a boomerang it hit me when I don't want it to so I like to think of it as managing attention because control is a hard word but I manage the attention kind of like water flow and I see where it goes and then I have to move with that your attentional spotlight is only the size of your thumbnail one one-thousandth of

Apollo Robbins on Focus...

 The quarks are stuck together by other things called gluons. And these guys, here, they're the weak nuclear force, probably the least familiar. But, without it, the sun wouldn't shine. And when the sun shines, you get copious quantities of these things, called neutrinos, pouring out. Actually, if you just look at your thumbnail --

CERN's supercollider PIPE...

 and they've spent hundreds of hours observing just a tiny patch of the sky no larger than your thumbnail held at arm's length. And in this image you can see thousands of galaxies, and we know that there must be hundreds of millions, billions of galaxies in the entire universe,

How radio telescopes...

 looking at interesting things in the world. And where your eye isn't looking, you're remarkably impoverished in your vision. That's because the foveal part of your eye, which is the high-resolution part, is only about the size of your thumbnail held at arms length.

The illusion of...

 bigger than a thumbnail and even smaller than that is her tiny tadpole unlike other frog species the strawberry poison dart frog mom transports the tadpole on her back a strawberry poison dart frog has to

Strawberry Poison Dart...

 enough you could cover it with your thumbnail and everything we held there our families our country everything you had there was back on that blue planet that was a sense of awe how in the world

Earthrise: The Story of...

 that was disclosed after the fact. So some people were shown, "Today is election day," the simpler one, and some people were shown the one with that tiny tweak with those little thumbnails

We're building a...

 how a spider no bigger than a thumbnail can produce so much silk so quickly has baffled scientists and it's no ordinary silk

Best Spider Moments PIPE...

 than a thumbnail can produce so much silk so quickly has baffled scientists and it's no ordinary silk it's the

BBC Earth 50 Top Natural...

 How a spider, no bigger than a thumbnail, can produce so much silk so quickly has baffled scientists.

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