Overview

The Thumbnail Area

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:

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.

The rename capability will alter the name of the original files, so use with caution. Example filenames are shown beneath the options, and are updated whenever the user selects a new field or presses <enter>.

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.

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