Patent ID: 8214766

Claim:
A computer-implemented method, comprising: displaying a main image within an area of a user interface on a display device; displaying a thumbnail control within a different area of the user interface on the display device for an image transformation operation, wherein said thumbnail control comprises a sequence of thumbnail images calculated from the main image; wherein each of the one or more thumbnail images shows a different adjustment level for the same image transformation operation to be applied to said main image so that the thumbnail images of the thumbnail control display a series of image transformation adjustment levels for the same image; in response to determining a user input control is over a particular thumbnail image, without selecting the particular thumbnail image, temporarily transforming the main image according to the transformation operation and adjustment level associated with the particular thumbnail image, wherein said temporarily transforming the main image occurs within the area of the user interface for the main image, and wherein said temporarily transforming the main image is temporary such that the adjustment level associated with the particular thumbnail image is no longer applied to the main image when the user input control is moved off the particular thumbnail image.