The Artwork Viewer

The Artwork Viewer is used to display images found in album or track databases and artwork found in tracks. The viewer is less constrained when resizing than the artwork panels found in the main window. The title field of the viewer window displays the dimensions of the image and the approximate percentage the displayed image is of its full size.

When displaying an album or track database, Yate can display artwork thumbnails. You can view a larger copy of the displayed thumbnail in the artwork viewer, by double clicking on the image. You can control the source of the images, if any, from the Artwork panel in the application settings. You can make the artwork panel follow selection changes in the database, via the Update album and track database selection changes option found in the Artwork panel application settings.

Images can be dragged out of the artwork viewer to any application (including Yate) which can receive dragged image data. Note that when images are dragged out of the Artwork Viewer the resultant data is always extracted from the OS's representation of the image. This differs from dragging out of a main window artwork panel which attempts to preserve the initial data. Images can be copied, saved and dragged out of the artwork viewer directly to a Finder folder. The dragged file will be named as follows:

If the Shift key is pressed when the drag starts, the file will be named folder.jpg.
If the Shift key is not pressed when the drag starts, the file will be named Yate Artwork timestamp with a filename extension corresponding to the Artwork settings default artwork type.

The Artwork Viewer can be manually opened by means of the Artwork>Show Artwork Viewer menu item.

You can copy images or image files manually into the Artwork Viewer, by dragging them or by pasting them in. When the main window's selected files all reside in the same folder, you can attempt to load a folder.jpg file from the context menu. You can load images via the Finder's Open With mechanism if Yate is selected. If you drag or open a folder, an attempt is made to load a folder.jpg in the folder. If the Shift key is down when dragging a folder, the folder's icon will be loaded.

You can display the current image in the file list's Artwork edit panel by double clicking on the large image display or via the context menu. This will also work from a full artwork display on a custom edit panel.

You can tell the Artwork Viewer to automatically update on file list selection changes via the Update on file list selection changes option in the Artwork panel settings.

You can tell the Artwork Viewer to automatically zoom loaded images to their maximum size via the Zoom loaded Images to full size option in the Artwork panel settings.

The Artwork Viewer's context menu has the following functions:

Open...: Select and open an image.
Open folder.jpg: Only displayed if all selected files in the main window are in the same folder. The folder.jpg file in the containing folder, if any, will be loaded.
Save Artwork to...: Used to save the displayed artwork optionally performing various image modification functions. The save panel can also be displayed via the File menu's Save and Save As items.
Save to folder.jpg: Only displayed if all selected files in the main window are in the same folder. The displayed image will be saved as a folder.jpg file in the folder.
Zoom Image: Zooms the displayed image to 100%, or the largest percentage which is possible. Double clicking on the image will perform the same function.
Crop/Scale/Square Artwork...: You can Crop, Scale and Square images.
Set Background Colour: You can set the background colour of the viewer. This is only meaningful when displaying PNG images with transparent backgrounds.
Copy: Copies the displayed image to the system clipboard.

Note: If the Artwork Viewer was opened from the Discogs or MusicBrainz wizard, changes made to the image are not reflected back to the wizard.