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    <desc>Press <key>Left</key> and <key>Right</key> to flip between pictures, or use the image gallery to show them all.</desc>

    <revision pkgversion="3.2" version="0.1" date="2011-09-05" status="final"/>
  <credit type="author">
    <name>Tiffany Antopolski</name>
    <email>tiffany.antopolski@gmail.com</email>
  </credit>
  <license>
   <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
  </license>
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<title>View all pictures in a folder</title>

<p>You can quickly browse through all of the pictures in a folder by opening one of the pictures and then clicking the <gui>Next</gui> and <gui>Previous</gui> buttons on the left and right of the displayed image (for example). You can also view an <em>image gallery</em>, with small previews of all of the pictures in a folder shown at once.</p>

<section id="browse">
 <title>Browse through all pictures in a folder</title>
 <p>If you have a folder containing several pictures, you can conveniently 
 browse through all of the pictures without having to open them individually.</p>
 <steps>
  <item>
   <p><link xref="open">Open</link> any one of the pictures from the folder 
   you want to browse through.</p>
  </item>
  <item>
   <p>Click <gui>Next</gui> and <gui>Previous</gui> on the left and right of 
   the displayed image, or press the <key>Right</key> and 
   <key>Left</key> keys, to flip between pictures.</p>
   <p>Alternatively, you can use the <key>Up</key> and <key>Down</key> keys, 
   or <key>Space bar</key> and <key>Backspace</key> keys.</p>
  </item>
  <item>
   <p>You can browse through the pictures in fullscreen mode by clicking the
<gui>Fullscreen</gui> button in the title bar or by pressing
<key>F11</key>. Use the keyboard keys to flip between pictures in fullscreen 
mode.</p>
 <p>To return to normal viewing, press <key>Esc</key> or <key>F11</key>.</p>
  </item>
 </steps>
</section>


<section id="image-gallery"><title>Browse the image gallery</title>
 <p>The <em>image gallery</em> shows small previews (thumbnails) of all of 
 the pictures in a folder at once. This makes it easier to quickly browse 
 through large collections of pictures.</p>
 
 <steps>
  <item> 
   <p>To show the image gallery, click <gui style="menuitem">Image 
  Gallery</gui>, or press <keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>F9</key></keyseq>.</p>
  </item>
  <item>
   <p>Click on a picture in the gallery to show it full-size.</p>
   <p>You can also use the <key>Left</key> and <key>Right</key> keys to skip 
   through the pictures in the gallery</p>
  </item>
  <item>
   <p>To hide the gallery, click <gui style="menuitem">Image 
   Gallery</gui> again, or press <keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>F9</key></keyseq>.</p>
  </item>
 </steps>
 </section>
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