Are you tired of the default photo previewer in Windows 7 and jealous of your Mac’s cool Quick Look Preview tool? Here’s how you can preview your pictures in a fast and snazzy way in Windows with the Picasa Photo Viewer. If you’re using Mac OS X, you can quickly preview your pictures and more by selecting them in the Finder and pressing the space bar. It quickly lets you see your picture in a larger size, and zooms in and out when you open and close the preview. A similar Lightbox effect is popular on many websites; click a picture, and the page will fade while the image zoom out larger. Windows 7 and other versions of Windows instead use a full preview application that can take several seconds to load and contains a full window frame. A small irritation, to be sure, but if you often find yourself previewing images, this can be time wasting and frustrating. Thanks to the free Google Picasa program, though, Windows users can have an equally useful picture previewer. Here’s how you can start using the Picasa Photo Viewer to preview your pictures, even if you don’t want to use Picasa as your normal photo organization and editing program
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