The Windows Menu

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# 3.6. The Windows Menu

## 3.6.1. The Thumbnail Viewer

Windows->Thumbnail viewer

  The Thumbnail Viewer lets you use Pixie as a powerful image manager. Pixie can display image files as "thumbnail images"thumbnail>, allowing you to review and use large numbers of images at a glance.

  Here is the Thumbnail Viewer's thumbnail management window:

  The Thumbnail Viewer

## 3.6.2. The Thumbnail Viewer Toolbar

The toolbar contains:

Options menu (described below)

File management buttons, to move to parent and home directories

Reload button to refresh the display of the directory's contents

Generate Thumbnails button, to generate thumbnail images in a viewed directory

New Window button, which creates a new copy of the current Thumbnail Viewer window

Stop generating thumbnails. Useful when a large number of images is taking longer than expected to thumbnail!

## 3.6.3. The Thumbnail Options Menu

As shown above, when you first open the thumbnail viewer you will see a basic view of your files wih no thumbnails. This allows more efficient navigation through your file system. When you open a directory containing image files that you'd like to see in thumbnail, click the

There is only one menu in this window: the Options menu button, built into the toolbar.

Options->Sorting

  This command sorts thumbnail images in ascending or descending order, based on filename, size, or date.

Options->Thumbnail Size

  This command displays these thumbnails in three different sizes, and sorts them in ascending or descending order based on filename, size, or date. You'll need to generate thumbnails using the button on the Thumbnail Viewer Toolbar for each size you wish to view. These thumbnails are persistent, meaning that once you've generated thumbnail images for a directory, they'll still be there the next time you use your computer. You'll only need to regenerate again if you add new images to a directory.

Options->Images and Folders Only

  This command automatically filters out everything but image files and directories only from the thumbnail browser at the right of the Thumbnails window. This can be useful when you have a lot of documents and images in the same directory, but only want to see image files in Pixie.

## 3.6.4. Using the Thumbnail Viewer

If you open more than one Pixie thumbnail window, using the New Window Button on the Thumbnail Viewer Toolbar, you can drag and drop between them.

The left side of the window is a Directory Tree view, allowing you to navigate your directories manually instead of clicking on directories in the browser window.

At the top of the Directory Tree you can choose to switch between the default Tree view, or utilize the HotList.

At the lower left of the Thumbnail Viewer is the Preview window. Click Enable Preview to see an image full-size before loading it up in Pixie's main Image Window. A single click on an image puts it in the Preview window; a double click loads it into the main Image Window.

The right side of the Thumbnail Viewer is the thumbnail browser. You can use this window to manage your images: use the browser for selecting directories, copying, moving, and renaming files right in the thumbnail browser, using either drag-and-drop or via the menus. Pixie can also work transparently with the KDE file manager, Konqueror. Simply drag the image file from the Tree view in Pixie to the directory you bring up in the Konqueror file manager.

## 3.6.5. The Pixie HotList

Your right mouse button mouse button links the thumbnail browser window to your HotList, giving you the power to instantly copy any number of selected images to frequently-used directories. You can also use the right mouse button mouse button to rename and delete files, or popup a quick view of file properties.

As you can see in the screenshot, the upper left of the Thumbnail Viewer has a tab where you can select the HotList view. Doing so gives you this instead of the tree view:

The Pixie HotList

Many users, especially those managing webpages, have lots of images to sort through and organize. The HotList can make this management easier by letting you mark frequently-used folders and keep them easily accessible for copying and moving files, switching to directories, etc.

Any folder can be put in the HotList. To do so simply right mouse button click on the folder, choose Add to HotList Group, and you'll be presented with a dialog asking you to name the HotList entry. By default the name in the HotList will be the same as the name of the folder, but you can name it anything you like: any character on your keyboard is allowed, including spaces.

Once done, you can easily copy or move items to that folder from anyplace on your computer by drag-and-drop either from Pixie windows or from the KDE file manager, Konqueror. You can also access the HotList by using the right mouse button mouse button on files.

You might use the HotList to give you quick access to your main webpage, or the directories where you edit a lot of images. Your home folder is always in the HotList by default.

Once a folder is in the HotList, you can either copy or move files from anywhere on your hard drive by dragging them on one of the items. Clicking on an item switches you to that item's folder.

## 3.6.6. The Image Color Editor

Windows->Image color editor

  This command allows you to precisely edit image-wide colors . Here is a screenshot of the Image Color Editor:

  The Image Color Editor

  You can edit image-wide colors in both RGB, Dual Channel RGB (Yellow, Cyan, and Magenta), and HSV modes.

  Simply drag the sliders until the preview image reaches the right image-wide colors, or click the plus and minus buttons either side of the sliders to adjust the values in small increments. To change the brightness of all colors at once, use the Brighten and Dim buttons to the right.

  To revert to the original color value, click on the Reload button to the left of the relevant slider. To revert all color values to the original values, click the Revert button at the lower right of the dialog.

  When you're satisfied with your new image-wide colors, press the Done button, and your Image window will display the results of your color edits.

## 3.6.7. The Individual Color Editor

Windows->Individual color editor

  This command allows you to precisely edit specific colors .

  Clicking on this command will first initiate a scan of all colors used in your current Image window, with the dialog

  Finding all color values...

  . On complex images, this scan could take a few moments, so be patient. Once this is complete, you will see a palette of all colors in use.

  Here is a screenshot of the Individual Colors Editor:

  The Individual Colors Editor

  You can edit individual colors in both RGB and HSV modes, even in non-paletted high-color and true-color images. Select the individual color you wish to edit, and enter the precise value or drag the sliders until the individual color shown in the Image window reaches the right color. Alternatively you can use the adjustment buttons to the left of the sliders to adjust the values in small increments.

  To revert all color values to the original values, click the Revert button at the lower left of the dialog.

  When you're satisfied with your new colors, press the Done button.

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