17. Change Thumbnail Size Before You Begin  2 Perform an Initial Scan for Media
By default, the Organizer displays the items in its active catalog (photos, movies, audio files, and creations) in reduced sizes. Each of these miniature media files is called a thumbnail, which is a name borrowed from the realm of professional photography. There, contact sheets are often printed separately for each developed roll of film, containing miniatures of each print on the roll. These contact sheets were often used by the photographer for cataloging purposes. The size of each miniature on the contact sheet was usually just larger than an actual thumbnail, hence the name. You can adjust the size of the Organizer's thumbnails to suit the task at hand. By default, the photo well displays thumbnails in a medium size.  1. | Display Smaller Thumbnails
To display images in a smaller thumbnail size than normalso that there are more of them displayed onscreen at one timein the Organizer, drag the Thumbnail size slider (located on the Options bar at the bottom of the screen) to the left.
TIP  | To quickly display small thumbnails, click the Small Thumbnail Size button on the Options bar. |
| 2. | Or Display Larger Thumbnails
NOTE  | When thumbnails are medium sized or smaller, only the file date appears, and not the date and time. Markers for tags and collections associated with the image are represented by a single, blue marker icon. Hold the mouse pointer over this icon to display the names of the markers associated with that image. |
To display images in a larger thumbnail size than normalso that image details are easier to seedrag the Thumbnail size slider to the right.
As thumbnails grow in size, their file date and time and the individual markers associated with a specific image are easier to see. To display the name of a marker, hold the mouse pointer over it.
| 3. | Or Display a Single Photo
To display images one at a time in the largest size possible, click the Single Photo View button (located just to the right of the Thumbnail size slider on the Options bar). In Single Photo view, you can then scroll from one image to another by using the scrollbar, pressing the Up or Down arrow key, or pressing the Page Up or Page Down key. To reduce the size of the thumbnail and display multiple images again, drag the Thumbnail size slider to the left.
TIP | If you display images in Single Photo view, you can easily see the names of each marker associated with that image, play audio captions (by clicking the horn icon) and add text captions (by clicking the Click here to add caption link). See 21 Play an Audio File and 31 Add a Text Caption or Note. |
To display an image in Single Photo view quickly, just double-click its thumbnail. If you double-click the image again while in Single Photo view, you'll be returned to the view you used previously.
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