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<blockquote data-quote="Pomeroy" data-source="post: 1346414" data-attributes="member: 91360"><p>How to scroll thru images in Preview seems to be hard when you first come from doing things the Windows way. When you open an image in Preview and the arrows don't seem to work it is because Preview is doing what you told it to do, View an image, if you want to scroll thru all the images in a folder tell preview to open the folder not just one image. The easiest way to scroll and browse images in a folder is to drag the folder or selected files to the dock and drop on Preview. Or you can use the Open command under Previews File menu. Once you have the folder open you will find Preview is more powerful that what you have been seeing when you just open one image with it. If you are using Lion you will see some buttons at the top of Preview near Search that will let you change how you see and browse the images. If you are use Snow Leopard the button will be on the bottom left of Preview. </p><p> By dropping multiple files on Preview you can now do Batch operations too, like Adjust the size or flip and rotate. You can easily Crop images and do Color Adjusts in Preview as well. I also use Preview to "Annotate" screen shots by adding boxes, circles, arrows and text when I need to. I try to use the features that came on my Mac when possible. I believe they were designed to work well together and I don't need to run a lot of 3rd party software to try and force my Mac to act like Windows machine. </p><p> Here is a couple more things people often over look in Preview, sometime after using their Mac for years.</p><p>If you need to take out a background on an image, you can use Preview's Instant Alpha feature to quickly and easily complete the task. The Instant Alpha tool is located in Preview's tool bar, under the Select menu.</p><p></p><p>Once you have the tool selected, click on part of the background you wish to delete and begin dragging. The red overlay that appears represents the area that can be deleted. Drag until the space is covered and let go. Press delete on your keyboard and the area will be removed.</p><p>In order to keep the image with the background deleted, you must save it as a PNG or GIF file with the alpha check box selected.</p><p></p><p>Screen Shots:</p><p>Under Previews File Menu select "Screen shots", it works perfect. You can then Annotate the file if you want, then use "Save As" and give it a name, select the location you want to save it to and change the type of file to what ever you need.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pomeroy, post: 1346414, member: 91360"] How to scroll thru images in Preview seems to be hard when you first come from doing things the Windows way. When you open an image in Preview and the arrows don't seem to work it is because Preview is doing what you told it to do, View an image, if you want to scroll thru all the images in a folder tell preview to open the folder not just one image. The easiest way to scroll and browse images in a folder is to drag the folder or selected files to the dock and drop on Preview. Or you can use the Open command under Previews File menu. Once you have the folder open you will find Preview is more powerful that what you have been seeing when you just open one image with it. If you are using Lion you will see some buttons at the top of Preview near Search that will let you change how you see and browse the images. If you are use Snow Leopard the button will be on the bottom left of Preview. By dropping multiple files on Preview you can now do Batch operations too, like Adjust the size or flip and rotate. You can easily Crop images and do Color Adjusts in Preview as well. I also use Preview to "Annotate" screen shots by adding boxes, circles, arrows and text when I need to. I try to use the features that came on my Mac when possible. I believe they were designed to work well together and I don't need to run a lot of 3rd party software to try and force my Mac to act like Windows machine. Here is a couple more things people often over look in Preview, sometime after using their Mac for years. If you need to take out a background on an image, you can use Preview's Instant Alpha feature to quickly and easily complete the task. The Instant Alpha tool is located in Preview's tool bar, under the Select menu. Once you have the tool selected, click on part of the background you wish to delete and begin dragging. The red overlay that appears represents the area that can be deleted. Drag until the space is covered and let go. Press delete on your keyboard and the area will be removed. In order to keep the image with the background deleted, you must save it as a PNG or GIF file with the alpha check box selected. Screen Shots: Under Previews File Menu select "Screen shots", it works perfect. You can then Annotate the file if you want, then use "Save As" and give it a name, select the location you want to save it to and change the type of file to what ever you need. [/QUOTE]
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