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# QLThumbnailRepresentation.RepresentationType

The different types of thumbnails that you can create.

```
enum RepresentationType
```

## Topics

### Enumeration Cases

[`QLThumbnailRepresentationTypeIcon`](/documentation/QuickLookThumbnailing/QLThumbnailRepresentation/RepresentationType/icon)

A file icon representation of an image.

[`QLThumbnailRepresentationTypeLowQualityThumbnail`](/documentation/QuickLookThumbnailing/QLThumbnailRepresentation/RepresentationType/lowQualityThumbnail)

A cached thumbnail representation of an image.

[`QLThumbnailRepresentationTypeThumbnail`](/documentation/QuickLookThumbnailing/QLThumbnailRepresentation/RepresentationType/thumbnail)

A thumbnail representation of an image.

## Relationships

### Conforms To

[`BitwiseCopyable`](/documentation/Swift/BitwiseCopyable)

[`Equatable`](/documentation/Swift/Equatable)

[`Sendable`](/documentation/Swift/Sendable)

[`SendableMetatype`](/documentation/Swift/SendableMetatype)

[`RawRepresentable`](/documentation/Swift/RawRepresentable)

[`Hashable`](/documentation/Swift/Hashable)

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