![]() ![]() This preview is more than just a big icon you can, for instance, flip through a multi-page document. A window’s Preview pane: No matter what view you set for a Finder window-Icons, List, Columns, or (new in Mojave) Gallery-you can add a pane to the right side of the menu so you can see a large version of a selected item: choose View > Show Preview.When it’s a markup-able item, a markup button appears at the bottom of the pane. Column-view windows: The final column of a window set to Columns shows the item chosen in the previous column.Click the Markup button in the window’s toolbar for the markup tools. Whichever method you use, you get a window with a full-size version of the selected file (screen real estate permitting). For Force Touch trackpads: a light touch selects the file, a little pressure enlarges the icon a bit, and a full press opens the Quick Look window.Use the Quick Look button if you’ve added it to the toolbar.Choose Quick Look from the Action menu in a window’s toolbar.Quick Look windows: Quick Look? It’s not Apple’s fault if you’ve ignored this handy Finder feature that 10.8 Mountain Lion introduced back in 2012-macOS provides five ways to peek at a selected document in the Finder.In the Finder: Mojave lets you use markup tools right in the Finder, where you can access them in many ways. ![]() In other Markup-savvy apps from Apple: In apps such as TextEdit, place an image in the document and then hover over its upper-right corner until you see a down-arrow button click it, and choose Markup from its menu to open the markup window.button in the toolbar and choose Markup from its menu the Adjust pane disappears from the right of the window, and your markup icons are displayed along the top of the image.(Zoom a thumbnail with a double-click and then click Edit in the upper right, or just select a photo and press Return.) Click the More In Photos: In Photos, you can access the markup tools when an image is in Edit mode.How you get to your markup tools depends on where you’re working: In High Sierra’s Extensions preference pane, activate Markup for Actions and Photos-there’s no Finder option. (You should also check the other three items, but I’m not covering their usage in this article, except for one, in passing, in “Quick Tips.”) Select Photos Editing and check Markup.Select Actions in the list, and check Markup in the panel. ![]() Back in 2014, Apple added the Markup extension in 10.10 Yosemite, along with the Extensions preference pane neither got the attention it deserved.Įnable markup capability in System Preferences for three areas in Mojave: ![]() Enable the Mac’s Markup ToolsĮxtensions are little plug-in utilities that add functionality to programs. As if that’s not enough, Mojave also incorporates these tools throughout the Finder and even within its new screenshot interface. While Apple’s productivity apps (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote) have a plethora of native markup-like tools, the company’s other apps that can contain images-Photos, Mail, TextEdit, Stickies, Notes, and even (in macOS 10.14 Mojave only) Messages-can now employ markup tools. You don’t have to open the image in Preview to avail yourself of its special markup tools, and then copy or otherwise use the altered version. Have you ever had an image that just begged for a speech balloon with a snarky comment coming from your spouse (or baby), or needed a villainous Snidely Whiplash handlebar mustache added to your boss (or baby)? Ever wanted to highlight or magnify part of an image for special attention, or simply crop a screenshot or other image? #1655: 33 years of TidBITS, Twitter train wreck, tvOS 16.4.1, Apple Card Savings, Steve Jobs ebook.#1656: Passcode thieves lock iCloud accounts, the apps Adam uses, iPhoto and Aperture library conversion in Ventura.#1657: A deep dive into the innovative Arc Web browser.#1658: Rapid Security Responses, NYPD and industry standard AirTag news, Apple's Q2 2023 financials.#1659: Exposure notifications shut down, cookbook subscription service, alarm notification type proposal, Explain XKCD. ![]()
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