We’ve all experienced it. You’re browsing through the internet and you chance upon what looks like a nice picture. There’s just one problem. You can hardly see the details in the picture because it’s too small.
If you’re using Firefox, there’s a nifty little plugin that can help you out. It’s called Image Zoom and it does just that; zooms in on images. This tool may be small but it’s power packed in my opinion.
To begin with, you can change the size of any image from 10% to 400% of it’s original size. So, you can not only make an image bigger but also you can minimize a big image to fit in a particular size. Besides this, you have a custom zoom option, if you’re partial to a particular size. Another neat feature is the ability to enlarge an image to fit in a page, which is great for checking out details.
Access to Image Zoom is easy since the extension is one of the options when you right click an image. I won’t say Image Zoom is perfect. Enlarging an image doesn’t necessarily mean the image will be clearer, especially if the image was grainy to begin with. Still, this is one extension that’s worth having around as it’s really handy.
Have you heard of Image Zoom before? Do you know of any other ways to enlarge images in your browser itself.
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If you use mouse gestures, you can use the zoom-in gesture (default: to the bottom right) on images to zoom in on them or on text to increase text size.
I use Image Zoom particularly with Thunderbird. The best / coolest feature of Image Zoom is that if you hold down the right-click on an image, you can use the scroll wheel on the mouse to zoom in / zoom out to your liking. By far the best feature in my opinion.
I’ve had to disable Image Zoom 0.3 in FF 2.0.0.12. Maps from Google and Yahoo (at least) are not displaying correctly (broken up into square blocks that don’t match up).
Some others have had problems with this plug-in also.
I posted this info on the author’s blog a couple of days ago but have not heard anything back in return.
I have the microsoft intellipoint software that allows a zoom feature for any application at the click of a button. Might be worthwhile checking out.
nice share… i usually use my mouse roller while holding the ctrl key. works great for zooming in =D
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As Austin mentioned, the browser zoom tools work (ctrl and +, ctrl and -, ctrl and 0) to resize images, but they used to not do this for images (just worked for text). Does anyone know when that changed and which browsers/versions it works for? I’m trying to figure out if some of my clients, who may be on older browsers, will have that functionality.