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. Preview Preview is Mac OS X's built-in graphics viewer, fax viewer, and PDF reader. It's always been teeming with features that most Mac owners never even knew were there | . Preview Preview is Mac OS X s built-in graphics viewer fax viewer and PDF reader. It s always been teeming with features that most Mac owners never even knew were there but in Leopard it s become a real powerhouse. . Preview as Graphics Viewer Preview s hallmark is its surprising versatility. It can display and manipulate pictures saved in a wide variety of formats including common graphics formats like JPEG TIFF PICT and GIF less commonly used formats like BMP PNG SGI TGA and MacPaint and even Photoshop EPS and PDF graphics. You can even open animated GIFs by adding a Play button to the toolbar as described below. . Bunches o graphics If you highlight a group of image files in the Finder and open them all at once for example by pressing -O Preview opens the first one but lists the thumbnails of the whole group in the Sidebar. You can walk through them with the and keys or you can choose View Slideshow Shift- -F to begin a full-screen slideshow. Tip Use the menu below the Sidebar group to change the sorting order of these thumbnails. . Cropping graphics To crop graphics in Preview drag across the part of the graphic that you want to keep. To redraw drag the round handles on the dotted rectangle or to proceed with the crop choose Tools Crop. The keyboard shortcut is -K. If you don t think you ll ever need the original again save the document. Otherwise choose File Save As to spin the cropped image out as a separate file preserving the original in the process. Tip You can also rotate an image even a PDF document in 90-degree increments and then flip it vertically or horizontally using the commands in the Tools menu. In fact if you select several thumbnails in the Sidebar first you can rotate or flip them all simultaneously. . Fixing up photos Preview is no Photoshop but it s getting a lot closer. Let us count the ways Choose Tools floating palette appears. Click the first tab to see the photo s name when it was .