In a Studio Project, only PDFs get thumbnail previews. Image files show a generic icon, so a folder of photos becomes a wall of identical tiles you can't tell apart.
Here's where it hurts. We scan buildings with Metaroom (Metaroom Website) and push the resulting photos straight into a Bluebeam Studio Project through the existing integration. A single floor easily lands 40+ images, named 00001.jpg, 00002.jpg, and so on. In the file browser every one of them looks exactly the same.
So to find a specific photo, e.g. the right electrical outlet or light switch, you can't just click through every photo. You open a separate snapshot-plan PDF, scroll until you spot the photo you need, note its position, then go back to the browser and hunt down the matching file by number. Every single time. For a workflow built around images, the file browser is effectively blind.
The ask: render thumbnail previews for image files (.jpeg, .png, .tiff) directly in the Project panel using the same caching model you already use for PDFs. Preview once the file is cached locally, generic icon when uncached. No new system, just extend the behavior that already works for PDFs to image formats.
The impact of not having it: every photo requires a manual round-trip through a reference PDF, multiplied across dozens of images per project. With previews, users pick the right photo at a glance and image files reach parity with PDFs.
Attached: a screenshot of the Studio Project file browser showing 40+ identical generic icons for image files, and the Metaroom snapshot-plan PDF we currently have to cross-reference against just to identify which photo is which.
Looking forward to your feedback!
Thanks,
Luca
CPO Metaroom
