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Creating a custom cast member thumbnail

For most cast members, Director displays a scaled version as the thumbnail unless you define a custom thumbnail. Creating a custom thumbnail is most useful for behaviors that you want to identify in the Library palette, because behaviors have no identifying image.

To create a custom cast member thumbnail:

1 | Select the bitmap image to use as the new thumbnail and copy it to your system's clipboard.
| You can copy the image from any bitmap editor, including the Paint window. The image can be of any size, but smaller images look better because they require less scaling.
2 | Using Thumbnail view, place the pointer over the cast member for which you are creating a custom thumbnail.
3 | Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) and choose Paste Bitmap from the context menu.
| The image from the clipboard replaces the current cast member thumbnail.
| You can also use text as a thumbnail. Select text instead of a bitmap image in step 1, and then choose Paste Text from the context menu.