$(cpicName) Help - Thumbnails
Thumbnails allow you to quickly scan an entire folder of files and quickly select desired
files without worrying about cryptic file names.
With lighting fast automatic thumbnail creation, you can quickly browse thousands of files without regard to file names. |
Thumbnails
What Are Thumbnails?
Thumbnails are smaller versions of the original files. The thumbnails are designed
to allow you to visually identify files without referring to the file name. When working
with large numbers of files, thumbnails allow you to scan an entire folder and locate a
particular file with greater ease and speed.
Unlike other thumbnailing programs,
If
Thumbnail Types You can select from three different types of thumbnails, or no thumbnails at all. These are selected using the List Views button on the main toolbar. More information on the different list views can be found on the File List page.
Windows Style (default)
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The Windows Style display will be familiar to Windows users. The File List
appears much like files in Windows Explorer or under My Computer. However, the file icons
are replaced by thumbnails in |
Tile Thumbnails
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The Tile Thumbnails list view will be familiar to users of earlier versions of |
Icon Thumbnails
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The Icon Thumbnails view is similar to the Tile Thumbnails view except for size. |
The Icon Thumbnails are about one quarter the size of the large thumbnails, allowing you to fit more files on your screen at once. The Icon Thumbnails view also displays the size of the file in bytes.
Thumbnail Sizes
Thumbnail sizes may be easily switched by right clicking in the File List. Here you can select from any of the preset sizes, your custom sizes, or open the thumbnail size preference screen.
The custom thumbnail sizes are configured in the Thumbnail Preferences. More information on configuring custom sizes can be found on the help page for Thumbnail Preferences.
When you change the size of your thumbnails, any previously created thumbnails will be scaled to the new size when they are displayed. Any new thumbnails which are created will be created at the new size. If you would like to convert all your thumbnails to a new size, you will need to re-create those thumbnails.
Thumbnail Zooming
You can set the amount of thumbnail zoom being used by right clicking on the File List or in the Thumbnail Preferences.
Creating Thumbnails
If you leave a folder and return,
To manually recreate a thumbnail for a file, select the file in the File List and choose Remove/Recreate Thumbnails from the Listing menu (or hit Ctrl+R).
To stop the creation of thumbnails at any time, select Stop Creating Thumbnails from the Listing menu.
Disabling Automatic Thumbnail Creation
If you do not want
To create thumbnails in manual thumbnail mode, select the files to thumbnail and choose Create Thumbnails (or hit Ctrl+Tab).
Thumbnail Saving
If you prefer, thumbnails do not have to be saved to your hard disk when being created. This will
slightly increase the speed at which thumbnails are created and help minimize the hard disk space
used by
To disable thumbnail saving, uncheck the 'Save Thumbnails' box in the thumbnail options.
All thumbnails you create after enabling this option will be not saved. Thumbnails created before you turned off this
feature must be removed if you want them to be deleted. (To remove thumbnails saved in the database, select
those files and choose Remove/Recreate Thumbnails from the Listing menu.
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