Icons in Finder

When I am browsing my photos in finder (using icon view), is there a way to see the picture as the icon instead of having a generic JPG icon. I don't want to have to click through each picture to find the one I want. I also don't like quickview because it with a lot of pictures, its hard to use.

In the folder you want this to happen on, press cmd+J to 'Show View Options.' You can also get here by choose View>Show View Options from the menubar while in a finder window.
Enable the radio button that says "Show Icon Preview."
This was available in Tiger as well, just FYI.
Hope this is what you're looking for!

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