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When I am in finder and viewing pictures, they all open in an almost minimized view, I can strech or maximize it manually but not automatically. How do i set it to open in full screen every time?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Hello,
I think this should be the solution:
In the folder where you have your photos in Finder click "Cmd-A" (To select all) then click "Space-bar" and your will now be able to cycle through all of the photos in that folder as normally with your arrow keys.
AND, if you want to acces full screen mode directly as you cycle through all of your photos in Finder. Then after having selected all photos by "Cmd-A", click "Alt + Space-bar" at the same time and a full screen mode where you can cycle though all of your photos appears.
Hope it helps. Anyhow, I also hate the way Apple think that Finder should work. I payed 3k for this...
Not sure if this is what you're looking for. I didn't read all of the post here. Anyway, if you're wanting to open photos in full screen that you've opened in the finder, without adding them in to iphoto:
1. Find the file with the photos you're wanting to open.
a. ie. a folder called photos on your desktop.
b. Click on the folder to open it.
2. Once this folder is open.
A. select the photos you want by holding your left mouse button down, drag over the files to highlight the
ones you want to open or.
B. press the command key and the "a" at the same time to highlight all of the files, or
C. There are several more ways to do this, that you propably know...........
3. Then, right click and press "open" or double check on one of the photos.
At that point, preview should open. If you have your view set to thumbnails, you'll see all of the photos you selected along the left side of the screen and a larger view to the right. You can scroll from photo to photo using 2 fingers(swiping up or down). Or right to left on the apple mouse. If you want to go full screen, click on the double arrows at the top right hand side of the window and move from photo to photo the same way.
If the folder you opened initially contains other folders with more photos in it, and you highlighted these folders as well as individual jpgs,, preview will open these folders in a separate window. Then repeat the process above.
Hope this helps.
milew66, all of your frustrations presented here are justified.
Preview should have a preference for opening images, by default, in whatever view you want, and anyone defending it is just embarrassed.
I have found that the typical Mac user will propose the answer "well why would you even want to do that?" as some sort of solution or excuse for all of Mac's shortcomings. They're embarrassed, and they should be.
Regarding your original problem:
1. In Finder, open all images with Preview.
2. In Preview, select all open images (with Command+A).
3. View (menu) -> "Actual Size on Selected Images". (Or you can choose Zoom to Fit for all, etc.)
Now all open images will be in whatever View mode you select, without having to select a View mode for each new image that you scroll through. It's a two step process, but it beats changing View modes for each individual picture.
Here: http://i.imgur.com/WPAPwwr.png
Strebord
The other way to see images as big as their original resolution allows, is to put all those you feel would look good together in a folder and have the System Preferences> Desktop screen images load them as wallpaper. There is a setting to allow them to change automatically.
But these do not resize to the resolution of the display, and either way too far and the results should be evident. However it is a way without any additional software to view a pile of horizontal images in full screen, and you should be able to make the Dock disappear in its settings.
Never been a problem for long time Mac users,
& from about Mac 6.0 or so, in my experience...
To view all those Preview items, in one window after noticing they probably won't look good in full-screen, one can go through and click the button so they revert to 'size to fit screen' in the application for each image. However an open Preview application doesn't really do all that good in full-screen, since the default includes the application window itself.
Have fun in any case...
Good luck & happy computing! 🙂
I just came from Windows. Look for a photo viewer called "Xee". You can tell it to maximize photos and even assign new keyboard commands to simulate Windows Photo Viewer functions.
I think people on this thread are missing your question. I still havent been able to fill the screen with a photo without zoom. Everyone seems to be telling you how to mazimize the application to full screen not the photo.
FWIW, I have a Mac because things do NOT fill up the screen. I usually have several windows open side by side on my 27" display.
There are differences in operating systems (thank goodness) and things cannot and should not be exactly the same on both - if they were, why would we have both? It's a personal preference; if Mac OS would suddenly do the same thing as Windows does, I'd abandon it.
I, for one, was not missing the OP's question.
If one uses two displays, is it not possible to have an adjoining screen
nearly full size (per screen dimension) with little or no waste to an open
application screen, as it could be set to not show a dock or menu bar(?)
With older Macs, and few full-screen viewing options in applications,
a few ways to view or preview them for a presentation, or kiosk, exist.
As Finder menu won't go away, but the Dock can disappear from view.
"Pop pop fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is..." - or is it? 😝
Are you using QuickLook to view the photos in the Finder (selecting the first image and hitting the Space bar)?
If you are click in the full screen button in the upper right hand corner of the window.
You can scroll thru the photos using the arrow keys on the keyboard.
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How to make pictures open in full screen view
