User Guide

Chapter 9: Customizing
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Use multiple colors to
highlight image files
Uses a different color to highlight each image
type in Details and Thumbs+Details view
modes.
Pop-ups Mouse cursor hover,
activates pop-ups
Activates or deactivates the animated pop-up
preview that displays when you hover over
thumbnails in the File List.
Settings below allow you to include text
and/or an image in the pop-up, or if you turn
this option off, to activate the pop-up only
when you hold down the Shift key.
<Shift> key activates
pop-ups
Activates the pop-up only if you hold down
the Shift key while hovering over a thumbnail
in the File List. You can turn this option off if
it interferes with Shift selection.
Auto hide pop-ups Hides pop-ups after 5 seconds, even if you
are still hovering over the image.
Show thumbnail in
pop-ups
Shows a pop-up preview of images in the File
List when you hover over them with a mouse
Show file information
in pop-ups
Includes text file information in the mouse-
over pop-up. You can select the information
to display by clicking Configure Pop-ups and
clicking on the type of information.
Configure file
information
Opens the Choose Pop-up Information dialog where you can select what
information to display in the pop-up when you hover over a thumbnail in
the File List. The default is file name, location, size, modified date, and
image dimension, but you can select other database, EXIF, file, image,
IPTC, or multimedia attributes.
Show the Windows
Explorer shell
context menu as
the default right-
click menu
Displays the default Windows Explorer shortcut menu instead of the
ACDSee shortcut menu.
Setting the Thumbnail Info options
You can use the ACDSee Options dialog box to change what information to display with
thumbnails of images in the File List pane. These options are set under File List | Thumbnail
Info.
To adjust the Thumbnail Info options:
1. Click Tools | Options.
2. In the Options dialog box, click File List | Thumbnail Info.
3. On the Thumbnail Info page, set or change the options as described below.
4. Click OK to apply your changes and return to ACDSee.