FIU Digital Project Guidelines and Help Materials

To create a thumbnail for upload to dPanther:

• save a photo or screen capture
• open the item in photoshop
• Choose Image from the top tabs in Photoshop and then choose Image Size
• In the Pixel Dimensions box, look at width and height and whichever is larger, change that pixel dimension to 150, which is the largest size that can be used for thumbnails
• Be sure to check the bottom of the box and be sure that Constrain Proportions is checked.
• Click OK
• Choose File from the top tabs of Photoshop and then choose Save As
•  Under File Name add the following;  _thm
• This allows dPanther to recognize the image upload as a thumbnail
• Be sure the Format is set to JPEG

• Sign into the back end of dPanther: http://dpanther.fiu.edu/sobek/
• Search for the record you wish to upload a thumbnail to and click on the title
• At the very top of the page, click on the target symbol that says Quality Control
•  Click the large grey button that says Select Files right under "Add a new page image for this package"
• Select your thumbnail and then hit Submit
• Afterwards, you will need to go back to the record and click on the Edit Behaviors 
• Go down to Main Thumbnail and make sure your "thm" file is showing and click Save at the bottom. 
• Your thumbnail should now appear on the record.