Thumbnail Window Features

To create a new thumbnail window, choose New Thumbnails from the File menu or the PicScan button palette.

To change the thumbnail size, click and drag a rectangle in the thumbnail view.

To scale the thumbnail view, use the Larger (Command +) and Smaller (Command –) commands in the Edit menu.

To open a file from the thumbnail window, click the desired image and the file will be displayed in a new window. To scale the single-image view, use the Larger (Command +) and Smaller (Command –) commands in the Edit menu

To rename a file from the thumbnail window, Command-Click the image filename and type the new name or edit the exisiting name as desired. On Mac OS 9, the maximum filename length is 31 characters. It is recommended to keep the standard image filename extensions, such as .jpg or .gif.

Use the Thumbnail Setup command in the File menu to change other Thumbnail preferences.

To move a thumbnail image file to another folder or the desktop in the Finder, drag it from the thumbnail window.

To open an thumbnail in a different application, drag the thumbnail to the application icon in the Dock or elsewhere on your computer, or into a window of the application (if this feature is supported).

To start a small slide show from the Thumbnail window, Shift-click a thumbnail and a new Slide Show window will be created. The small slide show window can be resized with Command + and Command -. The resolution of the image will fully update after the current image transition.

To save a thumbnail view to a file on your computer with all of its parameters, use Save As in the File menu. If you make changes to an open thumbnail view file, use Save in the File menu to save your changes. A thumbnail view file can be double-clicked in the Finder to automatically open PicScan and display those thumbnails as you had previously saved them. The thumbnail view file stores only the folder location of the images, not the list of images or the images themselves.

To scroll the thumbnail view, you can use the left and right arrow keys on the keyboard. Press and hold the following modifier keys before pressing the arrow keys to scroll at different rates.

Shift : scroll more
Option : scroll a little
Command : scroll a lot

To display movies in a Thumbnail view, select a folder containing movies. A still image is used from each movie as a thumbnail. Click a movie thumbnail to display the movie in a separate window. The thumbnail view can also be used to open a folder of audio files supported by Quicktime.