ThumbsPlus
by Cerious
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2005-09-26 |
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ThumbsPlus sucks because it has no version support. Every time you edit a
picture in Photoshop and serve it as a different version all comments in
UserFields are gone... |
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2005-04-04 |
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pros:
- network capable (i.e. 5 machines share a db with thumbs, etc. - no need to regen per machine)
- fast
- supports all popular raw formats + plugins from photoshop
- batch mode for processing and conversion
- IPTC image info + EXIF data easy to get at
cons:
- meta tagging UI sucks. hopefully they\'ll improve this long term. If I could have thumbsplus with adobe\'s ui for tagging they\'d have a runaway hit.
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[5] |
2005-04-04 |
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I use Thumbs Plus - it uses an Access Database (or other ODBC source - I've personally hosted mine as a SQL database) - with an open schema that I can run queries against to find dups, etc. (it stores an MD5 hash of each image - so it makes it really easy to find timages that are EXACTLY THE SAME).
I use it becasue:
- Support for multiple plugins (including camera raw for canon, nikon , etc.) to generate thumbnails.
- The database is multiple machine compatible (i.e. I can access it from any of the 5 pcs in the house and view any of the thumbnails located on any of the machines)
- ability to tag images in the database or in the exif/iptc portion of the actual file
- ability to archive to dvd and have thumbnails and meta data for offline content stored in the db and still browsable/searchable
- ability to quickly/easily create logical galleries which are just a collection of images from anywhere they are stored (i.e. they can be offline, online, same hard drive, different machine, etc.)
- it handles the 27,000+ images I have to date including rougly 150GB of scanned slides/negatives that are 150MB per image PNG files (mostly archived to DVD now) - it only had to gen the thumbs once and I can view the thumbs and access the files quickly and easily from any machine.
- it can do batch operations (file conversions, scripts to add watermark, etc.)
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Review by About.com of ThumbsPlus |
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