Here’s a quick but useful tip for those who love their desktop backgrounds and change them on a regular basis.
Choosing a new wallpaper in the Desktop & Screen Saver pane of System Preferences? If your Mac has a multitouch trackpad, place the mouse cursor over the thumbnail previews of the wallpapers and use the pinch-and-expand gesture, normally used to zoom in and out of photos in Preview or on the iPad, to make the thumbnails larger and smaller.
Give it a try–it’s pretty neat!
Keir Thomas (http://keirthomas.com) is the author of Mac Kung Fu, which contains over 300 tips, tricks, hints and hacks for Mac OS X Lion. He’s also the author of over 10 other computing titles.
2 responses to “See Bigger Thumbnails Of Wallpapers [OS X Tips]”
Neat trick. I also really like the pictures you have in your wallpapers folder — would love if you’d be willing to share them.
That’s a neat trick! I’m actually impressed it only worked for Trackpad and Magic Trackpad, not even “CMD” + “+” or “CMD” + “-” thing on the keyboard. Interesting …