Viewing photo folder as a picture.
When I bought my mac last week in the shop the genius had all his phptps on one folder. In that one folder he has, say 30 different folders all with photos in them. Now instead of viewing the folder as a folder, he was viewing the folder as a pic, one of the pics in that particular folder. How is this done.
I have over 50 folders of pics, holiday, car, kids, wedding and wanted to view them as pictures instead of the boring folder view
I hope you understand?
Thanks
TO be honest I dont think it was coverflow. I could see on the screen 20 or so different folders, thumbnails, and they were all different photos instead of folders. EG. Instead of 1 lot being a boring folder view the pic was of a photo in the folder itself. So for eg when looking at the screen I click on a wedding pic and it opens the wedding folder. etc
It is as if the folder (boring blue folder) has been changed to one of the pics inside that particular folder. So instread of looking at a page full of boring blue folders you are looking at different photos and behind all those photos is the folder they represent
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