A thumbnail is a reduced-size copy of an image.
Many websites and search engines include small thumbnails for showing image previews.
For example, a Google image search displays thumbnail previews for pictures that are somewhat bigger on their websites.
However, none of those browsers incorporate features that enable their users to enlarge thumbnails.
Nevertheless, you could still enlarge thumbnails in those browsers by adding some useful extensions to them.
This extension expands thumbnails on websites when you hover the cursor over them.
It works on more than 140 website domains.
After youve installed PhotoShow, click theExtensionsbutton in Chrome or Edge.
There youll see thePhotoShowbutton, which you could add to the toolbar by clickingPinin Chrome or EdgesShow in toolbaroption.
In Firefox, add-on buttons automatically appear on the toolbar.
The BBC website is a good one to try out the extension since it includes lots of thumbnails.
Open that sites homepage, and then move your cursor over a thumbnail there.
PhotoShow has mini, lite, and panoramic enlargement modes for thumbnails.
Mini is the smallest mode that displays expanded images within an eighth of the area outside the thumbnail.
Panoramic is the largest that shows a thumbnail at its full original size.
PhotoShow also enables you to rotate enlarged thumbnail images.
To do so, hover the mouses cursor over a thumbnail to rotate.
Then press theShift+Ctrl+orarrow key combination torotate the enlarged picture.
it’s possible for you to select additional options from PhotoShows context menu.
Right-click a thumbnail on a website and select thePhotoShowsubmenu.
Then you might selectOpen HD image in New tab,Save HD image, andCopy HD Image addressoptions.
Press thePhotoShowextension button, and poke the toggle switch off at the top of its prefs.
To more widely disable its thumbnail enlargement, deselect theEnable basic support on unknown websitesoption.
This extension works similarly to PhotoShow, but youll need to use its keyboard shortcuts more to expand thumbnails.
it’s possible for you to check out Imagus by downloading it from the linked pages below.
To try out Imagus, open Google and input a keyword in that search engine.
ClickImagesto view the thumbnail previews for pictures that match the keyword.
Then hover your cursor over a thumbnail to view an overlay image for it.
The overlay images wont look much bigger than their thumbnails.
To expand them, youll need to activate the extensions full-zoom mode.
Press theZkey after hovering your cursor over a thumbnail.
That will centralize the pop-up image and enable you to expand it.
To enlarge the overlay picture, press the+key for zooming in.
Pressing the-(minus) key zooms out
you could also rotate andflip the imageswith keyboard keys.
PressRto rotate them right andEto rotate left.
TheQkey flips an image vertically, and pressingWwill flip it horizontally.
There are various other keyboard shortcuts for Imagus.
To view its hotkey list, right-go for the Imagus extension button to selectOptions.
Select theShortcutstab to bring up the list of hotkeys for the extension.
Imagus will work on at least the 318 websites listed within that extensions tab.
To view that list of supported sites, clickSievebeside theShortcutstab.
To further configure the extension, selectPreferenceson theImagustab.
There, you could configure configs for the extensions image captions and pop-up appearance.
Instead, its users can expand thumbnails by selecting Zoom Image context menu options.
hit the link below and selectAdd to Firefoxto install Zoom Image.
Search for some pictures using Google or Bing to try out Zoom Image.
To expand a thumbnail preview in the search results, right-click it and selectZoomImage.
Then select theSize x 2.0option to view an expanded image twice as big as its thumbnail.
you could click that same option again to increase the image size even more.
Unlike Imagus and PhotoShow, Zoom Image enables you to move expanded images.
Left-click an enlarged image and hold the mouse button to drag the picture within your internet tool.
To restore a thumbnails default size and position, select theZoomImage>Original Size / Normal sizeoptions.
Options for rotating images are also available on the ZoomImage context menu.
go for the twoRot 90degoptions to rotate the image by 90 degrees left or right.
you might rotate pictures 180 degrees by clickingRot180degoption on the context menu.
There are also some more direct mouse commands for those options.
you’re able to view the extensions command list by right-clicking an image and selectingZoomImage>Open prefs.
Click theSwap commandcheckboxes on theOptionstab to change commands for different features.
And if you oughta deal with other thumbnails online, you’re free to always download them.
