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To save a viewer setting, do the following:
1 Right-click over the viewer you want to save.
2 From the contextual menu, choose Setting > Save New.
3 Enter a name for the settings and click Save.
To load a viewer setting, do the following:
1 Right-click over the viewer you want to load a setting into.
2 From the contextual menu, choose Settings > filename.
Loading and Saving Defaults for a Viewer
The viewer can save new defaults and be returned to its defaults using the Load Defaults and
the Save Defaults options in the Settings portion of the View contextual menu.
The Viewer Options Menu
The Options menu of the viewer contains several ways you can customize the look and
behavior of the viewer. Many of these options are also in the viewer contextual menu.
Show Controls
When onscreen controls are not necessary or are getting in the way of evaluating the image,
you can temporarily hide them using the Show Controls option. This option is toggled using
Command-K.
Checker Underlay
The Checker Underlay shows a checkerboard beneath transparent pixels to make it easier to
identify transparent areas. This is the default option for 2D viewers. Disabling this option
replaces the checkerboard with black.
Pixel Grid
Enabling this option will show a light black grid that outlines the exact boundaries of pixels in
the image when the image is scaled past a certain threshold. The default is Off.
Smooth Resize
The Smooth Resize option uses a smoother bilinear interpolated resizing method when
zooming into an image in the viewer. When Smooth Resize is disabled, scaling uses the nearest
neighbor method and shows noticeable aliasing artifacts but is more useful for seeing the
actual pixels of the viewed image when you zoom all the way down to a pixel level since there
is no interpolation. This option is enabled by default and can be toggled by clicking on the SmR
button in the viewer toolbar.
Show Square Pixels
Depending on the frame format preferences and the type of footage loaded, many images may
have pixels that are rectangular instead of square. Both the NTSC and PAL video standards, as
well as some anamorphic film formats, use rectangular pixels. A computer monitor uses
perfectly square pixels. To compensate for this, aspect correction is automatically performed
when viewing non-square pixels. This prevents non-square pixel images from appearing
squashed or stretched in the viewer.
You can enable the Show Square Pixels option to override the aspect correction. Show Square
Pixels can also be toggled on and off using the 1:1 button in the viewer toolbar.
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