I have some photos from vacations and was wondering if there is any way to view the pictures in the folders as thumbnails. Windows xp does this and I am trying to lessen my usage of windows as a whole. Hoping for some way of doing this within 10.4 without a third party app but any way of controlling the size of the thumbnails would be nice.
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anyway of having thumbnails in tiger?
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If you currently work in 'column' view, then you may need to switch to 'icon' view in the finder to get the options to resize the thumbnails. It's the button with 4 smaller boxes arranged in a square. Flip back to list or column view when you're done.
When in Icons view you can increase the icon size up to 128x128, which is more than enough for any thumbnails. I'm quite happy at 96x96... 
I'm in the "icon" view but then my files don't show the thumbnails. The file has "jpg" written on it instead of showing the picture.
It's probably not exactly what you want, but in Tiger you can select a bunch of image files, control click to show a contextual menu, then choose "Slideshow". Once the slideshow starts, you can move the mouse to the bottom of the screen and click on the "Index Sheet" button (the icon with 4 rectangles), which will show an Exposé type view of the images.
kent_ridge said:
I'm also not sure about Tiger (I assume it's the same, though), but in Panther this option can be set differently for particular folders, or the same throughout the system. Make sure that you haven't changed the settings for one specific folder, and then tried to view icons in another.
HexMonkey said:
Just as an aside I tried this, selected a bunch of jpgs in a folder, right-clicked and selected Slideshow. Zip happened. Is there anything else I need to do?
Vanilla
Vanilla said:
Nope- it's SUPPOSED to show a slide show when you do that. I noticed this too though- When I first got tiger I tried it, and it worked great (contact sheet is kick ass) but then two days later I tried it again and it didn't work. I've installed 10.4.1 and it has been working since, but it seems like there may be some issues with this.
Maybe try force quitting and relaunching finder.
Lacero said:
This works!!
When you have this dialog box open, read ALL the options and make sure you have the appropriate ones checked. It fixed the *problem* for me.
Thanks Lacero, I've been suffering in silence with this agravation for a long time
Margaret
It should show a slideshow and icon view should show previews.
You've definitely gone into icon view, chosen view options from the 'gear' menu and ticked on 'Show Icon View'?
There is another way to make your image icons stop being generic. If the file was created on a Mac (from scratch or as a save as), Photoshop/Elements etc will create a thumbnail automatically which will show as your icon in any view (obviously pretty small in column view).
There is a bit of freeware called Pinki which will create these thumbnails for you. You just highlight the image files and click on Pinki in the menu bar. These images will then have the thumbnail as their icon rather than the default jpg. The additional benefit of this is you'll also see them in open/save dialogues so it's easier to identify things.
You've definitely gone into icon view, chosen view options from the 'gear' menu and ticked on 'Show Icon View'?
There is another way to make your image icons stop being generic. If the file was created on a Mac (from scratch or as a save as), Photoshop/Elements etc will create a thumbnail automatically which will show as your icon in any view (obviously pretty small in column view).
There is a bit of freeware called Pinki which will create these thumbnails for you. You just highlight the image files and click on Pinki in the menu bar. These images will then have the thumbnail as their icon rather than the default jpg. The additional benefit of this is you'll also see them in open/save dialogues so it's easier to identify things.
or if you want thumbnails for your videos, open the video and find a frame you want to use as the thumbnail. take a screenshot of the play window (hold down apple+control+shift+4 then drag a box round the movie.. a shutter will sound to let you know it worked).
now go back to finder and do apple+i to bring the info pallete up and click on the icon in the top left of the pallete. apple+v will paste your screen shot into the icon. now when you look in finder you got thumbnails of your videos - this is one feature i missed greatly from XP. That and instant slideshows - which look like they are included in Tiger now anyway
that process looks harder than it is!
now go back to finder and do apple+i to bring the info pallete up and click on the icon in the top left of the pallete. apple+v will paste your screen shot into the icon. now when you look in finder you got thumbnails of your videos - this is one feature i missed greatly from XP. That and instant slideshows - which look like they are included in Tiger now anyway
that process looks harder than it is!