3. Viewing Individual Photos
While Photo Gallery displays all of your photos in a
grid of thumbnails, you will frequently want to view a single photo,
either to simple admire it or to edit—or fix—it
in some way. Doing so in Photo Gallery works identically to opening an
image file in the Windows Explorer shell: you double-click the photo in
question. When you do so, the Photo Gallery interface changes as shown
in Figure 4.
A number of new features are exposed when you view a
photo in this fashion. First, the application switches into a
single-image view. To return to the thumbnail-based photo gallery view,
click the Back to Gallery button, or the prominent blue Back button at
the top of the window.
A new Info pane appears on the right side of the
application window. From here, you can add tags, a caption, and a
rating, and view detailed information about the photo. You can toggle
this Info pane by clicking the Info toolbar button or, if it's visible,
the close button in the upper-right corner of the Info pane. (It
resembles a small "x.")
Using the bottom-mounted toolbar, you can move back
to the previous image in the gallery, move forward to the next image,
rotate the image counterclockwise or clockwise, delete the image,
trigger a slide show, or zoom in and out. If you do zoom into the
image, you can use the mouse cursor to scroll around within the display
area, as shown in Figure 5.
Finally, you can also replace the Info pane with a
Fix pane for editing the photo in various ways.
