Step 1: Working with Thumbnails

Step 1 in almost any workflow is to locate images on your hard drive or other media. Since Qimage is batch processing software where we often perform operations on multiple images, we select images by looking at (and highlighting) thumbnails. We simply point Qimage to a location (drive and folder), allow Qimage to display thumbnails for the images in that folder, and then select the images that we would like to process by highlighting the appropriate thumbnails. The above highlighted area shows that Qimage sees 9 images in a folder called "c:\images" (the current folder). Note that the folder tree (where we can select a different folder) is hidden in the above example so that more thumbnails are visible. The ability to show/hide the folder browser is your option. If the folder tree is hidden as above, simply click the blue bar where the word "Folders" appears and the folder browser will open. Once you choose your folder, you may optionally hide the folder browser again by clicking again on the "Folders" bar. Note that the first time you enter a folder, Qimage will take some time to build the thumbnails for all images in the folder. You may, however, begin selecting thumbnails even while Qimage is building thumbnails in the background. Once all thumbnails have been built for the folder, subsequent visits to the folder will display thumbnails almost instantly. Now that we have found a folder with images that you wish to process, let's pick a few of those images and select them in the thumbnail grid.

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