snippet renegadex This snippet shows how to get the thumbnail from exif metadata. This is very usefull for generating very fast thumbnails!! I hope many would benefit from this. <CODE> use Image::ExifTool qw(ImageInfo); my $exifTool = new Image::ExifTool; $exifTool->Options(Binary => 1); my $info = $exifTool->ImageInfo('image_file.jpg', 'thumbnailimage'); my $data = ${$$info{ThumbnailImage}}; my $loader = Gtk2::Gdk::PixbufLoader->new(); $loader->write($data); $loader->close(); $pixbuf = $loader->get_pixbuf(); </CODE> since you are able to make the thumbnail into a pixbuf then you may now use your favourite widget to preview the thumbnail. <br><br> the $exifTool is an Image::ExifTool, so you need this module to make it work. you can yum it using... yum install perl-Image-ExifTool. <br><br> *some of the codes i got from other monks*