Could icons from picture files represent picture content?

[bernhard]

Hello,

yesterday, I dragged a picture from iPhoto and dropped it on my desktop. What I saw then was neat! Instead of seeing the ever-the-same icon of some pictures also stored on the Desktop (the Preview-Icon, to be more exactly), I saw the picture in the icon!

If you see what I mean (sorry about my bad english : Do you know a way how to tell macos, that the file icon should represent the files' content, so the picture itself?

Best,

Bernhard

 

[Lt Major Burns]

with the finder selected, choose view > show view options. in there, there will be a checkbox for "show icon preview".

 

[Natobasso]

Remember not all files have icon previews…