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The thumbnail options control how your thumbnails are made, and their appearence. The thumbnail options can be accessed from the Preferences, found under the Edit menu or by clicking on the 'Preferences' button on the main toolbar. | -->

Thumbnail Options Thumbnail Size Options
Quick Sizes - the Quick Sizes radio buttons control the size of the thumbnails in the File List. You can select any of the preset sizes from the list on the right.

The Quick Sizes buttons also contain seven user - configured buttons. When selected, each of these buttons will activate the Custom Thumbnail Size area and allow you to set your own unique thumbnail sizes. Each user defined size is saved for easy access. By default, 'User 1' contains the default thumbnail size 96x72.

Custom Thumbnail Size - to set your own custom thumbnail sizes, select the user slot you would like to save your settings in under Quick Sizes, then set the size of your new thumbnails using the Custom Thumbnail Size settings.

You may adjust the size of the thumbnail by clicking and dragging the preview, by moving the scrollbars for width and height, or by entering the lengths to use in pixels into the text fields. The current settings for the select user defined size will be displayed under the preview in the text fields. To save your size, simply exit the preferences.

Thumbnail Zoom - the Thumbnail Zoom options allow you to set how large your thumbnails are displayed. By default, all thumbnails are displayed at actual size (whatever size you have selected under Quick Sizes). However, you may also magnify your thumbnails up to 4x by selecting that option here.

Advanced Thumbnail Options General Options
Automatically create thumbnails on demand - When checked, will automatically create thumbnails for all files when you enter a directory. When unchecked, you must manually create any thumbnails you desire using the Create Thumbnails option in the Listing menu.

Save thumbnails in database for instant retrieval - This option will set to save thumbnails as they are created. This will slow the initial thumbnail creation process and will require space on your hard drive, but will allow you to return to a directory at any time without recreating thumbnails.

Compress saved thumbnails - This option turns on or off the compression of thumbnails saved on your hard drive.

Thumbnail Appearence Options
Smooth thumbnails - Checking this option will create higher quality thumbnails, but will cause the thumbnail creation process to be slower.

User slower (more compatible) thumbnail palette - This option will change the color palette for thumbnails to a more compatible one. This will not slow down the thumbnail creation process, but may slow down the display of thumbnails in the File List.

Approximate Thumbnail Replacement Options
Use smaller thumbnails when exact match not available - allows to use a smaller thumbnail for File List display if an exact match is not found.

Use larger thumbnails when exact match not available - allows to use a larger thumbnail for File List display if an exact match is not found.

Load/draw thumbnails as a background process - allows to load saved thumbnails from the database as a deferred background task. This provides extremely fast user interface responsiveness at the expense of some user interface clarity.

Related Topics:

- Preferences
- Thumbnails