Usage of MuchoThumbs

The toolbar and the document window

The new version's interface is based on a new all-in-one window, plus two optional windows (zoom and preview)

The new main window

It's the window in which you will be able to work individually on each image (correct, modify, rename ...) and create all the web mages, thumbnails ...

It is now possible to personnalize the toolbar in this version, thus selecting the tools that you are using in your everyday work, as in every Mac OS X compliant application.

The buttons' functions are explained below

Watch the files in the slideshow mode

Open/hide the zoom window

Select all files

Unselect all files

Cancel the modifications on the selected file

Save the modifications on the selected file

Previous image

Next image

Restore the original file (if saved) Delete the selected file

Correct brightnes and contrast on the selected image

Resize the selected picture

Rotate the picture 90° clockwise

Rotate the picture 90° counter clockwise

Vertical mirror Horizontal mirror
Convert the picture to B & W Convert the picture to Sepia
Crop the picture Resize the canvas
Open the prefs window Open/hide the settings drawer
Select the pictures folder Create the web pages and thumbnails ...
Visualize the web pages in the browser  
As explained, the picture always need adjustments, as they are coming from different sources (digital camera, internet, scanners), that's why we integrated all these tools to make it possible tcorrect them within MuchoThumbs without using any external software.

Simply drag and drop an images/movie folder on MuchoThumbs document window to make its contents appear. You can also select a folder with 'Select a folder' button or drop the folder on MuchoThumbs' finder icon or even using the shortcut "command + 1" within MuchoThumbs.

If the dropped item is an image/movie folder, the window will show the list of images/movies and the preview of the first image/moovie.

All the images can then be previewed by selecting them in the list or by clicking the previous/next buttons.

Rename, reorder and typing descriptions for images
Images/moovies can be renamed within the interface or reodred by dragging and dropping them
renaming within the interface
Drag & Drop the documents to reorder them in a snap
When reordering pages, if the document is not saved (or the images renamed) the new order will be lost when choosing a new folder.

You can also type in, a description for each image, in the list, that way those descriptions can be automatically inserted in the index file(s).

These descriptions can also be automatically imported from a text file : to do this, simply put, in the images folder, a text file named "descriptions", with one description by line. This document must be a simple text document and not a TextEdit document.

The slideshow

By double-clicking the preview image, the slideshow will be launched, viewing the images at 100% in full screen. Here are the diferent commands available.

This table explains the differents shortcuts available

or or
left of the picture right of the picture
or or
upper side of the image Lower side of the picture

next picture

previous picture

up down
left right
zoom in zoom out
resets the zoom (100%) Full screen
escape
Start/stop the automatic slideshow Quit the slideshow
alt+
Rotate the picture clockwise
(without saving it)
Rotate the picture counter clockwise
(without saving it)
   

Preview window

The preview has been considerably improved, using now a real HTML browser within the program, that's why the preview is really WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get).

The zoom window

The zoom window, shows a zoom of the selected picture.

Clicking on the picture will zoom in, ALT + clicking will zoom out