Max. Size of Thumbnail in FileWindow

[ben]

Hi,

Is there a maximum size of the shown thumbnail in the file window?

When using the "only thumbnail" layout and moving the zoom-slider nearly to the right, the thumbnail doesn't get bigger any more.
I would like that the thumbnail uses all the space of its tile. Is that somehow possible?
(see my screenshot)

Ben

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[Mario]

The thumbnail size is limited to the maximum thumbnail size you have specified when creating the database, or under Edit > Preferences > Database.
Usually thumbnails are generated at 300 pixel.

If the thumbnails for your files (RAW) are generated smaller than the requested database site, see The WIC Codec FAQ

[ben]

ok, that worked. I forgot to "force update" the thumbnails.

Mario, would it be very difficult to add another option to the layout-editor to upscale the thumbnails to fill the complete tile?

In most cases, 300 pixel are enough. But sometimes i would like to zoom the thumbnails bigger. But for these rare cases it is not worth to inflate the database with > 300 pixel thumbnails. Of course upscaling produces a worse image quality than a bigger thumbnail. But it's just for the rare cases.
And using the quick preview is not the same, as seeing several images big enough at the same time.

Nik

[Mario]

The quality would be real bad. And then users would complain about the bad quality. I don't think this would be a good idea.

[ben]

And then users would complain about the bad quality

You're right, that might become a problem.

I can think about two solutions:

   
• Some kind of visual feedback, indicating that the current thumbnail is upscaled and/or
• limit the upscale to a certain factor. See my pics attached (300->400 pixel, 300->500 pixel and 300->600 pixel). 50% upscale should be no problem, and probably even a bit more with a more sophisticated upscale algorithm.

What do you think?

[Mario]

I think this will be a lot of effort for something that most users never will use.
300 pixel is already a lot for a thumbnail. If you really need larger thumbnails than 300 pixel, just create larger thumbnails for the database.

[ben]

ok, what a pity.
Bigger thumbnails are not really an option since they need quite a bit more of space on the harddisk.

[Jingo]

For what it's worth - I had set my Thumbnails to like 600px since space is pretty cheap... but then I realized that the preview panel is probably a better way to go anyway and can be setup to not really take up much space if using dual monitors... so have been using that instead.  I get a nice big preview of the thumbs very quickly thx to the cache.  Lowered my thumbs back to 300px and am happy.