The Thumbnail area is the large area on the right
side of the window where image thumbnails and filenames are shown, and includes
controls for the thumbnails. The main window space devoted to the thumbnail area
and layout area can be controlled by dragging the divider between the two areas.
At the extreme positions of this divider, not all buttons may be visible due to
differences in font sizes on various platforms.
Thumbnails
can be rearranged by dragged them to a new location in the thumbnail area. A
blue insertion bar will mark the point of insertion for the
images.
Several selection options are available in the thumbnail area.
Typical selection rules apply, so the <shift> key will select a range of
images, and <control> (<command> on Macs) selects individual images.
If you select multiple images from the Thumbnail area and drop them into the
image editing area, the application will create an item in the order for each
image that was dropped. This is a shortcut method that can be used if you
need to create the same product for a number for different images, like a proof
order.
The contextual menu in the thumbnail area, accessible via the
right mouse button (Mac users with a single button mouse hold <control>
and click the mouse button), offers selection abilities:
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Show Selected Only: Removes all image thumbnails from the thumbnail
area, except for those selected. Show All: Shows all images found in the folders, typically used after
a Show Selected Only. Rotate Thumbnail: Rotates the view of the thumbnail. The actual image
thumbnail and image itself are not modified. Remove: Removes the selected thumbnails from the thumbnail area. The
original image files are not deleted. Rename...: Shows a rename dialog with several rename capabilities.
Select Others: Inverts the selection by selecting all unselected
thumbnails, and deselecting all currently selected ones. Open with Image Application: Configured in Preferences, this will
attempt to open the selected images with an image
application. |
Beneath the
thumbnail area are two controls, "Zoom" and "Folder...":
"Zoom" shows a zoom
slider which allows changes to the size of all thumbnails in the thumbnail
area.
"Folder..." opens a file dialog which allows selection of another
folder to be searched for images. The image search can be selected to search
subfolders or not, selectable in Preferences. Once a folder has been selected
the Client will begin searching, and as it finds images it will show a thumbnail
of the image in the thumbnail area. A placeholder image can be used instead of a
representative thumbnail in the Preferences dialog. While the application is
looking for images the buttons title will change to Stop Searching. If the
user clicks the Stop Searching button the application will stop it search for
images leaving those that it had already found available in the thumbnail
area.
The triangle to the right of "Folder..." contains a list of the
fifteen most recently used folders for easy switching between sets of images.
