Viewing thumbnails when selecting a picture?

[cosmos65]

Hey guys.

I am a brand new Mac switcher and am finding my way around this new OS.

This forum looks like exactly the thing i was looking for to help me through this period, so thanks to all in advance for any help you can offer for this question and the others I will doubtless be posting.

WHEN selecting a picture file from a folder, say for choosing a new desktop picture in system preferences for instance, I can only see a list of file names listed. Is there any way of changing this view to display thumbnails of the pics?

Cosmos65.
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iMac 2.16Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo
2GB RAM
Mac OS X 10.4.8

 

[Galley]

I'm a newbie myself, and I don't know the answer to that one. Perhaps you could try an image view such as CocoViewX.
http://www.stalkingwolf.de/software/cocoviewx/

 

[eric2006]

If you press the "Three column" view near the upper left corner of finder, you can get a preview.

 

[Harp]

http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/findphoto.html

http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/instantslideshow.html

You should check out all the random apple tips floating around on the net. They will help to get you aquainted with all of your new options.

http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/
http://www.macosxhints.com/

 

[eric2006]

Also, you can enable a thumbnail if you're using the icon view, from the View menu, click "View Options". Enable "show icon preview".

 

[cosmos65]

Great. Thanks for the advice.