Tiff to thumbnail

I'm scanning thousands of slides (positives) onto my hard drives. I'm using the Nikon coolscan 5000 and batch scanning 50 at a time. I'm saving them to folders labeled by year and saving them as Tiff files. I would like to view them as thumbnails before moving or viewing in iPhoto. How do I get the Tiff files to show up as thumbnails instead of the Tiff icon?

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