When you click the Manage tab, you’ll find the following four components: Navigation palette, Preview area, Organizer palette, and the Info palette. For information about each of these palettes, see The Manage tab.
Preview mode
Depending on your specific needs, you can customize Manage by choosing the Preview, Thumbnail, or Map mode, resizing, moving, or hiding the palettes, and selecting display and file preferences. For more information, see Setting Manage tab preferences.
Thumbnail mode
Map mode
To switch between Preview, Thumbnail and Map modes
Manage tab
• In the upper-right corner, click one of the following buttons:
• Preview mode — displays a large preview area of a single image
• Thumbnail mode — expands and locks the Organizer palette content in the preview area
• Map mode — displays a map where photos can be matched to specific locations
1 Position the pointer over the edge of the palette that you want to resize until the pointer changes to a two-way arrow.
2 Drag to enlarge or shrink the panel.
When you customize the Manage tab, the program remembers the latest layout settings and automatically saves them for your next session.
To hide or show the Navigation palette and Info palette
Manage tab
• In the Organizer palette, click any of the following buttons on the Organizer toolbar:
• Show/Hide Navigation — shows or hides the Navigation palette
• Image Information — shows or hides the Info palette
A convenient way to minimize the Organizer palette (or any palette) is to click the Auto Hide button on the palette title bar. For more information, see To roll up a toolbar or palette.
