Thumbnails

What Is the Thumbnails Window?

What Pictures Do You Want To See?

Filtering the Thumbnails Window

To Group Or Not To Group

Captions For Pictures

Framing the Thumbnails

Searching the Thumbnails

The Buttons at the Bottom


The Media Window

Slideshows

What Is the Thumbnails Window?

The Thumbnails window is an image browser, providing a place to see pictures for...

The content of this window can be saved as an attractive PDF document or made into a slideshow/movie. In addition, the Thumbnails window provides a single window to review your picture files (their names, descriptions, etc.).

To open the Thumbnails window, click Thumbnails in the navbar. This opens the Thumbnails window, shown below...

Tip: Control-click a thumbnail image to see a pop-up menu of shortcuts.

Note: If the original image file is missing, two of the items (Reveal in Finder and Open in Preview [or External Application]) will be disabled.

Tips...

What Pictures Do You Want to See?

Near the top of the Thumbnails window are several buttons that determine what you'll see.

Use the Include button to select one of the following five options...

Filtering the Thumbnails Window

Three more buttons in the Thumbnails window permit further pruning of pictures...

To see pictures for living people only, check the button Living Only.

To see preferred pictures only (one per person), check the button Preferred Only.

Note: whenever Preferred Only is unchecked, then pictures linked to people will be included in addition to any "family" pictures associated with a person's families. For example, when Leroy is included (if you're showing thumbnails for all people or marked people, and Leroy is marked) then all pictures linked to Leroy will be included AND all pictures linked to Leroy and his spouse(s) -- i.e., his "family" pictures.

To exclude pictures designated as sensitive, check the button Exclude "sensitive."

To include images with the designation "Treat as Document," check the button Treat as Document.

treat as document

To Group Or Not To Group

All group dividers will show the number of pictures in the group if there is more than 1 picture in the group.

The grouping of pictures can be hidden or visible, using the little Disclosure buttons at the left edge of each divider.

Tip: Option-click any Disclosure button to show or hide all groups of pictures.

One use of the Disclosure buttons would be to omit people from a thumbnail slideshow or PDF file. For example, if cousin George is a descendant of your immigrant ancestor, but you want to omit cousin George from a slideshow that would otherwise include him and all other descendants, just click his disclosure button prior to creating the slideshow or saving the PDF file.

Framing the Thumbnails

To change the frame or border around the thumbnail images, click on the Picture frame button at the bottom of the Thumbnails window.

The menu that appears gives you several different options for framing the thumbnails...

Captions for Pictures

The Caption Line 1 and Line 2 buttons specify the choice of text that appears under each picture in the Thumbnails window.

Options for the first line of picture captions are...

Options for the second line of picture captions are...

The example below shows description and relationship under the image.

For more information about the fields associated with images, click here.

Searching the Thumbnails

In the top-right corner of the Thumbnails window, use the search box to show thumbnail pictures for people with a certain surname, or just for a particular person. This search box works just like the one in the People sidebar and other search boxes in Reunion. Learn more.

Keep in mind that the search box works together with the Include button (described above). In effect, this creates two simultaneous filters for the Thumbnails window.

For example, if "kennedy" is in the search box, and the Include button has Marked People selected, then the Thumbnails window will only show people whose surname is "kennedy" AND who are marked (i.e., both conditions must be met).

The Buttons at the Bottom

Each of the buttons at the bottom of the Thumbnails window is described below.

The Slideshow Settings buttons opens the Slideshow Settings window. Learn more.

The Play Slideshow button will play a slideshow of the images currently appearing in the Thumbnails window. Learn more about slideshows.

The Share button in the Thumbnails window has three options...

save all images

The horizontal slider is used to change the size of thumbnail images in the Thumbnails window.