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Download a high-resolution original TIFF from the digital collections.
Crop the TIFF so that the resulting file is a square at least 2000 700x700 pixels on each side. (Bigger is fine)
Assume the bottom sixth of the image will be hidden by the label displayed in front of the thumbnail.
Place the cropped TIFF in:
P:\Othmer Library\Digital Collections - External Access\Crops for Hydra Redesign\cropped_tiffs\categories
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The resulting thumbnail checked into the codebase should be:
a jpg
600x600 density (we aren’t totally sure why this matters, but think it’s what we’ve been doing)
segment length 16
progressive
precision 8
700 pixels wide
700 pixels tall
3 frames
with a name ending in
_2x.jpg, consistent with the other files in the featured topics asset directory.
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