$(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.

's Thumbnails
displays different types of Thumbnails depending on the list view you're using. This allows you some control over the thumbnail size so that you can display more files in your File List if you need to.

Unlike other thumbnailing programs, stores thumbnails in a file so they are instantly available for future reference. This makes it much faster to browse commonly used folders. You simply create thumbnails the first time you open a folder, and they are there forever.

If detects that a file has changed, an hourglass will be displayed in the lower left corner of thumbnail until has had a chance to update the thumbnail. This lets you know that the thumbnail may not match the file exactly.

Types of Thumbnails Image Thumbnails

Image thumbnails are small representations of image files. will automatically create image thumbnails for any files which is recognizes to be a supported graphics format. |

Text Thumbnails

Text thumbnails are visual representations of the contents of a text file. For the purpose of creating thumbnails, considers any file be a 'text file' if it is not a recognized file type and does not contain binary data. This will often include not only .TXT files, but also system files such as .INI, .INF, .BAT, etc. |

<#if cpicPro> Web Page (HTML) Thumbnails

thumbnails more than just image and text files! Using , you can also visually browse web pages stored on your computer. When you enter a folder which contains web pages, will automatically generate thumbnails of the web pages. |

It is important to note that web page thumbnails are intended to provide only an indication of the visual appearance of the web page. Thumbnail generation is optimized for performance, not accuracy. Some complex web pages may not appear exactly the same in their thumbnails as they do when viewed in a stand alone web browser.

<#endif> Thumbnail Styles 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)

| 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 . The Windows Style display will change colors depending on your Windows setup.

Tile Thumbnails

| The Tile Thumbnails list view will be familiar to users of earlier versions of . This view places the thumbnails into tiles which make it easy to visually separate files from one another. Each tile also includes the file name, file type, and an icon for that file type.

Icon Thumbnails

| 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 allows you set custom sizes for your thumbnails in the Windows Style and Large Tiles view modes. These custom sizes are saved, allowing you to switch to any of your configured sizes quickly and easily. includes seven standard thumbnail sizes which are preset to common sizes, and seven user-configured thumbnail sizes, allowing you to use any one of up to 14 different sizes for your thumbnails.

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 not only allows you to create thumbnails at any size, but also allows you to magnify your thumbnails. You may display thumbnails at up to 2x their actual size. While this can decrease quality, it provides a fast and effective way to see smaller differences between files.

You can set the amount of thumbnail zoom being used by right clicking on the File List or in the Thumbnail Preferences.

Creating Thumbnails will automatically create thumbnails for all the images in a folder when you enter that folder. You do not need to do anything for thumbnails to be created.

If you leave a folder and return, may need to recreate the thumbnails for that folder.

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 automatically create thumbnails, you can disable that feature in the thumbnail preferences. When this feature is disable, you must manually create any thumbnails you would like to see.

To create thumbnails in manual thumbnail mode, select the files to thumbnail and choose Create Thumbnails (or hit Ctrl+Tab).

Thumbnail Saving saves thumbnails in it's default configuration.

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 . However, thumbnails will have to be recreated whenever you re-enter a directory.

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.

Related Topics:

- File List Options
- The File List