Zoom into Finder column previews
Nov 29, 2010 - 3 Comments

Here’s a cool Finder tip, you can zoom into the Mac OS X Finder Column-View preview panes by option clicking on the preview. You then can use either a trackpad or scroll wheel to zoom in or move around on the image.
I love these little attentions to detail that Apple puts in Mac OS X, I hadn’t known about this one before. Hat tip to @Cabel on Twitter for the tip.

That’s cool for detail but I prefer just using Quick Look because the image size is larger and you can also pan in and out
[...] look! With this handy tip, zooming into the Finder column view previews is really, really easy. And oh-so-useful, [...]
[...] Thanks to Pollock for pointing this out in the comments of a similar tip, which shows you how to zoom into Finder previews in column view. [...]