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gbeberman
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April 21, 2024
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Customizing thumbnail view in Lightroom Classic?

  • April 21, 2024
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Is there some way to alter the thumbnail view in Lightroom Classic to display more useful info? For example, I don't feel a need for a big, and arbitrary, image number showing next to each thumbnail. More useful would be the image name.

 

And since I work with many external drives and want to know which drive contains a selected image, having the option to display the file path for the selection would speed things up vs right clicking for a finder view to see the path in an error message. And it woud be more helpful for me than something All Photographs or Previous Import.

 

Thanks!

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Conrad_C
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Conrad_CCommunity Expert
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April 21, 2024

What you want for the grid thumbnails is, in the Library module, choose View > View Options, almost the same command name that customizes the grid/list views in the macOS Finder.

 

Note that View Options can be different for Compact Cells or Expanded Cells. The option name for the useless big number is Index Number, you can see that I disabled mine. I have also customized the info that appears in all four header locations for an Expanded cell.

 

If you were asking about the thumbnails in the Filmstrip, right-click that and a context menu pops up; on the View Options submenu you can control some thumbnail options such as Index Number.

 

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    gbebermanAuthor
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    May 3, 2024

    This is wonderful. Thank you.  Two more questions:

     

    1. Is there a way to change the size or color of items as they are displayed. Here is a screen shot of the black on grey I see:

     

    That's tough to read.

     

    2. My understanding is that LRC takes the first frame of an imported videa as a thumbnail for the reference to the vidoe. But, that thumbnail is displayed for me only when the drive with the video is attached. Is there any way to have video posters that persist?

     

    Thanks again!

     

    Gary

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    gbebermanAuthor
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    May 3, 2024

    And, is there any way to display the file path in the Library thumbnail view without having to ask that each individual file be shown in the Finder?

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