OS X Tutorial: Quickly preview files with Quick Look in Finder

Quick Look was introduced as part of OS X Leopard in 2007, an astonishing five years ago. Despite its ever-presence in Apple’s desktop operating systems, not everyone is aware of just how much it has evolved through the releases of Snow Leopard and Lion. In typical fashion, Apple don’t always shout about every feature and tweak it adds to each operating system update, which gives nosey Mac lovers like us the opportunity to discover and share them (and bask in the glory of caring so much as to find them in the first place). Quick Look certainly falls in to this category.

The ability to view multiple images in one set is new to Lion and very much quicker than opening the same number of files in any given app (no matter how fast your Mac performs). It takes another button press after your initial Spacebar hit to activate the feature and it’s not quite as obvious as you might think. We only found it recently ourselves, but we’ll show you how it can improve your workflow. Here is the next OS X tip you can’t live without…