Opening images in preview

In Windows computers when you double click an image to open it, you can look through all the images that are in the folder with the image viewer. However with Preview on Macs when I open an image it only shows that one.The only way for me to click on an image and be able to cycle through all of them in preview is if I highlight all images by pressing (command + A) and that way I can view them together in one preview window. Now this would be alright, excep for the fact that command + A and clicking will open all files I will often open documents and things that I don't want open.

So basically what I want to know is:

• Can preview be set so when you double click one image you can view all image in the folder with the image viewe
• Change the default image viewer if neccessary
• Is what I am asking possible on Macs?