jQuery-Fakecrop Plugin takes a collection of images and automatically scale them to fit a custom-defined bounding box. This creates a "fake" cropping effect on those images; which produces convincing thumbnails.

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Quick Start:

<script src="/path/to/jquery-library.js"></script>
<script src="/path/to/fakecrop.js"></script>
<script>
	$(document).ready(function () {
		// for a filled square thumbnail
		$('img').fakecrop();
		// for a fixed width/height
		$('img').fakecrop({fill: false});
	});
</script>