# Viewing Images

### Different View modes

In addition to the image preview, Pixie supports 4 different ways to view your images when you double-click them. You can access them by selecting the "View" item on the menubar, then going to the "View images as..." option. You can select from:

- New window, scaled to desktop size. This option is most useful for if you want to view both the browser and the image at the same time. It displays the image in a new window, scaling down the size if needed.
- New scrollable window. This option also displays the image in a new window, but instead of scaling down the image if it is too large it provides scrollbars so you can scroll through parts of it. While usually you'll want to see the whole image and not have to scroll through parts of it, this option can be useful when dealing with huge images you don't scaled down to your desktop's size.
- Fullscreen. The default mode. When an image is double-clicked the entire screen is used to display the image. If it is smaller than your monitor it is centered on a white background. This is better than a separate window because there is are other distracting windows on the screen and your eyes can focus on just the image. Simply click on the screen to close the image and return to the browser. You also are provided with 4 navigation buttons aligned to the top-left of the screen. The first two are used to go back and forth between images in the FileList, and the second two are used to go back and forth between images in the current browser folder. In this manner you can view several pictures without having to go back to the browser.
- Fullscreen/Maxpect. This operates the same as the normal Fullscreen mode, but enlarges images to fill the entire screen while maintaining the aspect ratio. This is great for photos are other medium sized images, but things like 16x16 icons don't look good when enlarged to your entire screen size... :)

### Keyboard Navigation

All the View Modes support using the following keystrokes to navigate your images:

- Left and right cursor keys.
Go to the previous or next image in the FileList.
- Up and down cursor keys.
Go to the previous or next image in the current browser folder.
- Space key.
This also goes to the next image in the FileList.
- Escape and Enter keys.
Both of these keys will close the image and return you to the browser.

### Full Screen Toolbar

Fullscreen mode provides a handy toolbar for navigation and to make some images more legible:

Here is a list of what the buttons do in the order that they appear in the toolbar:

- The toolbar handle. You can click this to hide or show the toolbar.
- View the previous image in the browser folder.
- View the next image in the browser folder.
- View the previous image in the FileList.
- View the next image in the FileList.
- Increase brightness.
- Decrease brightness (dim).
- Increase contrast (spiff).
- Decrease contrast (dull).
- Rotate 90 degrees.
- Maxpect zoom in/out.

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