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Generate Thumbnails

Create consistent thumbnails from full-size images for galleries, listings, and content previews.

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Thumbnails are the first visual impression of your content -- in search results, social media feeds, email previews, and content galleries. A poorly cropped or inconsistently sized thumbnail undermines the professional appearance of your entire platform. Yet generating quality thumbnails at scale is surprisingly difficult because it requires intelligent cropping decisions about what part of each image to preserve at a small size.

ToolRouter's transform_image skill generates thumbnails with smart cropping that preserves the most important part of each image. You specify the target thumbnail dimensions, and the tool handles the resize and crop to produce a visually appealing result. This works for product thumbnails, blog post previews, video thumbnails, and any context where small preview images represent larger content.

Consistent thumbnails dramatically improve the visual coherence of listings, galleries, and feeds. When every thumbnail is the same size and properly cropped, your content looks curated and professional. When thumbnails are random sizes with awkward crops, even great content looks amateurish.

Agent Guides

Claude

  1. Connect ToolRouter: claude mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
  2. Ask Claude: "Generate a 300x200 thumbnail from this image using image-ops"
  3. Claude creates the thumbnail with smart cropping using transform_image
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ChatGPT

  1. Configure ToolRouter in ChatGPT
  2. Ask: "Create a thumbnail from this image for our product listing"
  3. ChatGPT generates the thumbnail with appropriate cropping
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Copilot

  1. Add ToolRouter to your Copilot MCP configuration
  2. In Copilot Chat: "Generate a 200x200 thumbnail from this image"
  3. Review the thumbnail output
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OpenClaw

  1. Connect ToolRouter: openclaw mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
  2. Ask OpenClaw: "Generate a thumbnail from this image at 300x300"
  3. OpenClaw creates the thumbnail with appropriate cropping
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