diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a05fd463..9d2761f2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@
 - Added a default red colored Stderr output for the commands errors.
   You can now also silence individually custom commands errors using the `cobra.Command.SilenceErrors` field.
 
+- Slightly speed up (~10%) the thumbs generation by changing from cubic (`CatmullRom`) to bilinear (`Linear`) resampling filter (_the quality difference is very little_).
+
 
 ## v0.20.0-rc3
 
diff --git a/tools/filesystem/filesystem.go b/tools/filesystem/filesystem.go
index af2f3c1a..5c601745 100644
--- a/tools/filesystem/filesystem.go
+++ b/tools/filesystem/filesystem.go
@@ -425,25 +425,26 @@ func (s *System) CreateThumb(originalKey string, thumbKey, thumbSize string) err
 		return decodeErr
 	}
 
+	r.Close()
 	var thumbImg *image.NRGBA
 
 	if width == 0 || height == 0 {
 		// force resize preserving aspect ratio
-		thumbImg = imaging.Resize(img, width, height, imaging.CatmullRom)
+		thumbImg = imaging.Resize(img, width, height, imaging.Linear)
 	} else {
 		switch resizeType {
 		case "f":
 			// fit
-			thumbImg = imaging.Fit(img, width, height, imaging.CatmullRom)
+			thumbImg = imaging.Fit(img, width, height, imaging.Linear)
 		case "t":
 			// fill and crop from top
-			thumbImg = imaging.Fill(img, width, height, imaging.Top, imaging.CatmullRom)
+			thumbImg = imaging.Fill(img, width, height, imaging.Top, imaging.Linear)
 		case "b":
 			// fill and crop from bottom
-			thumbImg = imaging.Fill(img, width, height, imaging.Bottom, imaging.CatmullRom)
+			thumbImg = imaging.Fill(img, width, height, imaging.Bottom, imaging.Linear)
 		default:
 			// fill and crop from center
-			thumbImg = imaging.Fill(img, width, height, imaging.Center, imaging.CatmullRom)
+			thumbImg = imaging.Fill(img, width, height, imaging.Center, imaging.Linear)
 		}
 	}