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Visual Media Explorer™ Browser Overview

Visual Media Explorer™ Browser (Image Thumbnail View)

Visual Media Explorer "Browser", a tree-based browser similar to the Windows Explorer, is a visual file system that makes image file management easier and more intuitive. Use it to preview the images in a folder before opening them. The Visual Media Explorer Browser is a visual method for finding, previewing, and opening files that is similar to the Windows Explorer. Because it is a visual file system, it makes working with image files easier and more intuitive.

The left pane of the Browser shows the file system of your computer. When you select a folder, the right pane displays small preview buttons, called thumbnails, of the supported images within this folder. You can use these thumbnails to select, open, move, copy, rename, and delete your image files.

Navigating with the Browser

Navigate through the folders using the left side of the Browser. When you click a folder, thumbnails of the images Visual Media Explorer supports appear in the right side of the window. Move the cursor over the thumbnail to view an image.

If for some reason you are browsing a large number of images and you wish to stop the browsing simply press the "ESC" key on the keyboard. The pop-up menu will appear:



1. Main Menu - The Menu bar displays the menu headings. The menus that are available depend on what is open in the workspace.

Using the Menus

You can display menu commands using the following methods:
    Clicking the menu in the Menu bar, or
    Pressing the <Alt> key plus the underlined letter in the menu’s title. For example, to display the File menu, press <Alt> + <F>.
    You can select or execute a menu command using the following methods:
    Clicking the item in the menu,
    Pressing the <Alt> key plus the underlined letter in the menu’s title, and then pressing the letter underlined in the menu item. For example, to     select the menu item File > Open, press <Alt> + <F> + <O>, or
    Using the cursor or the <>, and <¯> keys to highlight a menu item, and then pressing the Enter key.

2. Folder History - A history of each folder visited is kept track of in this pull down box. When exiting Visual Media Explorer the last 10 most recent folders will be saved.

3. Toolbar - The Toolbar provides buttons that access some of the frequently used commands in the menus. To activate a command, click its toolbar button.

4. Preview Pane - The current thumbnail image selected will be displayed in the Preview Pane. A larger image will be displayed here as well as any image information (image size, date, file size, text comments...)

5. Image Thumbnail - A thumbnail is a small preview of an image that lets you identify and manage it without opening the actual image. When you navigate to folders using the Visual Media Explorer Browser, thumbnails of all images that can be opened by the program appear in the Browser’s right pane..

6. Image Metadata - Some images, TIFF, JPEG, GIF, and PNG, support embedded text comments or an image description in the image. If an image of this type has text comments embedded in the image it will be displayed in this text box. Any EXIF Information including Digital Camera settings and GPS information, or DICOM Information will be displayed here.

7. Status Bar - The Status Bar, located along the bottom of the Visual Media Explorer window, displays information about images, buttons, and procedures.

Setting the Browser to view images by Filename or Image Thumbnails

Select the Main Menu View -> Images As -> Thumbnail Tiles or File Name to change how the images are viewed.

Visual Media Explorer™ Browser (Filename View - Detail View)

Visual Media Explorer™ Browser (Filename View - Large Icon View)
To change the setting for Filename View look under Main Menu File -> Preferences