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Use the preview panel to get a birdseye view of any active

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file in the content panel. To open the preview panel, in the menu bar,

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choose Window > Preview. To understand the preview panel,

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you need to understand that whatever is active in the content panel

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is what you're going to see in the preview panel. Also, the size of the image

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or images in the preview panel are going to change depending on the width

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of the panel. So if I take this panel and I make it wider, the image is going

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to get much larger. If I make it skinnier, it's going to get much

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smaller. I think the preview panel is only really helpful if it's

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nice and wide to give you a big view of what you're seeing from the active file

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or files in the content panel. So what's the difference between this image that you're

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seeing in the content panel and this image that you're seeing in the preview panel?

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Well, over here in the content panel, you're seeing thumbnails of the images and folders.

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These are just little tiny images that are not very good quality. They're just meant to give you

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a quick look. But here in the preview panel, you're actually getting a preview of the image.

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This is not actually the image itself, but it's a much better quality image than the

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thumbnails that you see in the content panel. So let's take a look at how you would actually

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use the preview panel to your benefit. First of all, like I said before,

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you'll want to activate an image in the content panel. I'll click on my strawberries

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image to activate it. If I actually have two images active,

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so I'll hold down the Ctrl key windows, or the command key on a Mac, and click on my bird image,

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then both images are going to show in the preview panel. I'm going to deactivate

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that bird image so that you just see my beautiful little strawberry. One of

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the amazing things about the preview panel is that when you click on an image you'll get the loope

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tool. You'll use the loope tool to magnify that area of the image.

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Click again to reposition the zoom box or click and drag from

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the tab of the zoom box to move it around.

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Besides images, you can also preview videos in the preview panel.

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If you have a video in the preview panel, you're going to be given some extra options down here at the bottom.

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Click on the play icon to start playing the video. and click

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on the pause icon to pause the video. You can click and drag on the ticker to

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reposition the play. So if I want to move it back or forward.

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It's a little bit buggy. This icon over here is the repeat icon. So if I click

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on that, it's going to keep playing that video over and over again.

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Every time it gets to the end, it's going to loop around and play again. There's

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also a volume icon. So if I click on this volume, I can choose to make it really

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loud, so you can hear my bike going through the leaves at the state park. Or I can move it all the way

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down and make it nice and quiet. That's my favorite. So that's

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how you can preview videos in the preview panel. Okay, so now let's take a look

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at a practical use for the preview panel. While I don't consider this panel

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to be essential and I don't really like it taking a valuable real estate in my workspace,

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it can be helpful at times. Let me show you an example. So I'm

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going to move it over here to the edge. The best way to use the preview panel is to

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keep it undocked and kind of move it off to the side. Now if I move mine off to the side a little bit,

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you can't see it because it out of the recording window. But I'll just put it right over here. And you want it

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to be kind of big because what you're seeing here in the content panel, these little

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thumbnails are pretty little. And you want to keep them little so that you can see

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lots of content at a time. But for example, let me click on one of these scrapbook

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kits. We'll click on only you by KimB. Now right now, nothing

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is showing in the preview panel because I don't have anything active. If I click on this

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preview of her kit, it's going to show it to me nice and big.

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It's not filling the entire screen because the size of her preview is not very big, but let's

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choose something that is bigger. Like this camera, still not very big, but still

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a little thumbnail is pretty small. And so I don't get the details, but if I were

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to have the preview panel open, I can see the details of that element,

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same here. I can see better details of some papers.

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If I wanted to zoom in, again, I could just click on my little zoom icon and see what that actually

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looks like. Anyway, it's a great way to go through kits and actually see what the

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pattern of the papers is without having to open every paper and take

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a look at it. That is one very practical and useful tip for using the preview

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panel. Another thing the preview panel is good for is if you are

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looking at photos. For example, let's say I have a

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ton of photos, which I do, of one single

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event, and I wanted to kind of go through and see the expression

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of what's actually going on in these photos. So I'll use these right here.

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I'll click on one and he's basically in the same spot. So I'm going to zoom in

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here and kind of look at his face. So there's his face in that one.

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Here's his face moving over here a little bit in this one. And I can kind of go through

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and decide which images do I actually want to use. Because I'm getting

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a more birdseye view, sometimes you can't find the subject. I get a little disoriented.

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But you kind of get the idea that if you were looking at some images, you can get a close-up look

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without actually having to open the image or zoom in on it. The preview panel really

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helps you look at things and decide if the photo is good or bad. And of

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course this photo is practically perfect in every way, cecause that's my grandson Stetson. So hopefully

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this has helped you to get some ideas of how the preview panel could benefit you

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in your workflow. I'm going to go ahead and close this panel because I do not consider

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it essential and we will not be covering it again in the future modules.

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Coming up next are the workflow panels. I'll see you there. This has been Jen White.