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Large image previews in column view Desktop
I read elsewhere about individually changing column sizes in column view (hold down option key while dragging column), and noticed my image previews were of different sizes depending on which program last saved the image. I found that by using Graphic Converter, I could create previews of any size, up to the full original. The recource fork does get correspondingly larger, however. This is like having the Preview app intergrated with the Finder, except all the privew data is pre-generated.

[robg adds: You'll have to hit the Preferences button in Graphic Converter's Save As dialog to set the image preview size (or set it once using the Preferences panel, of course). It's fairly impressive to watch the Finder resize the image previews as you make the columns wider and narrower.]
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Large image previews in column view
Authored by: Fofer on Mar 19, '03 11:42:29AM

Is it possible to use GraphicConverter to simply add a resource fork to a JPEG, with nice big icon preview, but WITHOUT having to re-save the file as a JPEG (thus recompressing an already compressed file, and losing picture quality)?



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Large image previews in column view
Authored by: Fofer on Mar 19, '03 05:13:39PM

To answer my own question:
Simply open the folder in the browser, or use convert. Neat! GraphicConverter rocks.



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How to make all previews the same sizes?
Authored by: zossimos on Mar 30, '03 04:09:05AM

Exactly what settings do I need to make the previews to folder of images the exact same proportions? Right now I can alter the sizes of the previews but they are all different sizes. I'm not able to make them all, say, 680 pixels wide or tall (depending on the orientation of the image).



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How to make all previews the same sizes?
Authored by: bobketcham on Jul 25, '03 12:04:38AM

I'm using GC 4.5.

I have these preferences set:

Browser > General > Preview > Create automatically is checked

Convert > Icon / Preview > Only if one doesn't exist is not checked.

I use the GC Browser to browse the folder I'm interested in. The previews are changed to the size specified in the lower left of the browser window (400 x 400 maximum).

You can also control-click on any photo in the Browser preview column and select Create Preview.



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Large image previews in column view
Authored by: acollins on Jul 24, '03 09:16:47AM

What version of GC are you guys using? I have 4.4.4, and I can't get this hint to work.

I'm saving all my pictures with the resource fork created, and the setting to generate a full-sized preview.

What am I doing wrong?



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