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Old September 20th 04, 07:15 PM
Dave
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Default Thumbnail Software?

Greetings!
As I move forward in learning digital photog and Web page building, I find that I need a good thumbnail program.

Suggestions!

TIA!

-- Dave
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Old September 20th 04, 07:27 PM
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http://www.snapfiles.com/get/easythumbnails.html
"Dave" wrote in message ...
Greetings!
As I move forward in learning digital photog and Web page building, I find that I need a good thumbnail program.

Suggestions!

TIA!

-- Dave
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Old September 20th 04, 07:31 PM
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Zoolander wrote:
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/easythumbnails.html

"Dave" wrote in
message ...
Greetings!
As I move forward in learning digital photog and Web page building,
I find that I need a good thumbnail program.

Suggestions!

TIA!

-- Dave


I second that. I discovered Easy Thumbnails last month and am quite
pleased with it.

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Old September 20th 04, 07:31 PM
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Zoolander wrote:
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/easythumbnails.html

"Dave" wrote in
message ...
Greetings!
As I move forward in learning digital photog and Web page building,
I find that I need a good thumbnail program.

Suggestions!

TIA!

-- Dave


I second that. I discovered Easy Thumbnails last month and am quite
pleased with it.

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spammage trappage: replace fishies_ with yahoo
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Old September 20th 04, 07:35 PM
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Irfanview

It does far more than just thumbnails, but it also does this well.

Look at Batch Processing
http://www.irfanview.com
http://www.irfanview.com/main_what_is_engl.htm


"Dave" wrote in message ...
Greetings!
As I move forward in learning digital photog and Web page building, I find that I need a good thumbnail program.

Suggestions!

TIA!

-- Dave
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Old September 20th 04, 07:48 PM
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Use your photo editing program to create a very small version of the image. This very small image will be a thumbnail. But, make sure that you save it with a different name from the full size image.
Jim
"Dave" wrote in message ...
Greetings!
As I move forward in learning digital photog and Web page building, I find that I need a good thumbnail program.

Suggestions!

TIA!

-- Dave
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Old September 20th 04, 08:56 PM
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"Dave" writes:
Greetings!

As I move forward in learning digital photog and Web page building, I find that I need a good thumbnail program.
Suggestions!


convert from the ImageMagick project is wonderful and scriptable. No
pretty gui, but it'll do what you want from the command line in a
hurry.

http://www.imagemagick.org/

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Todd H.
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Old September 20th 04, 11:09 PM
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On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:15:25 -0700, Dave wrote:

As I move forward in learning digital photog and Web page building, I find that I need a good thumbnail program.

Suggestions!


JpegSizer does this and a lot more. It'll even resize web images and
thumbnails in a single run.

See link below.

Peter

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Old September 21st 04, 04:25 AM
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ThumbsPlus is one of the most powerful programs out there. It's much
more than an organizer, it's more an entry-level "digital asset
management" program if you want to get more serious about archiving
photos. One of the most amazing features is to search by photo
similarity ! It also supports all the new RAW file formats natively.
Below is a list of stuff it does. It costs more than your entry-level
program but also provides enough to justify that price. I've used it
for years and value it's best support system (they have their own news
server).

www.cerious.com

Good luck organizing your photos!

AW


When you register you receive the following:

* Image watermarking in batch mode:

* Multiple TWAIN acquire

* The following file types are supported only in the registered
version:

- PFB, Adobe Type 1 Fonts
- DXF, AutoCAD Exchange Format
- FLI/FLC, Animation formats
- FPX, FlashPix format
- DCS, Kodak Professional Cameral formats
-DCR, Kodak Professional Cameral formats

* Zip files may be viewed as folders only in the registered version.

* The ability to save endless schemes for catalogs, web wizard pages,
and contact sheets.

* The ability to save more than two named for batch sets.

* Database conversion, import and export are available only in the
registered version.

* The ability to connect to an SQL 6.5, 7.0, 2000 and MYSQL

The rest of the features here are available to try in the evaluation
copy. http://www.cerious.com/download.shtml

*You can save RAW files (image bits only, no image information).

*Many different and interesting image filters are available.

*Photo printing options with print preview.

*You can change or modify the image resolution during resize, and the
print size is computed.

*You can also enter a print size and the pixel dimensions will be
computed. Image |Transform | Resize.

*ThumbsPlus will print all pages of multi-image TIFF, DCX and CEX
files.

*You can automatically extract EXIF information and store in user
fields.

*You can display up to nine user fields in the thumbnail view.

*Perform quick batch processing directly from the main menu's Image |
Quick Batch fly out menu.

*Many slide show transitions.

*Windows Color Management support.

*Assign color profiles to scanners and digital cameras.

*Movie thumbnail and viewing options (Options | File Loading | Movies
& Sounds).

*Preview window available (you can switch between Tasks and Preview
and image information).

*Color replacement in single and batch mode (Image | Adjust).

*Quick convert menu for converting multiple files (Image | Convert
to).

*Quick (and non-lossy for JPEG files) turns (90, 180, 270) and
mirrors.

*Stamp an image with any image info (such as file name, date, EXIF
fields, etc.), another image or any text. Image | Stamp.

*Multiple undo/redo capability.

*Generate individual pages for each image in the Web Page Wizard.
Image | Web Page Wizard.

*Many template styles for the Web Page Wizard.

*Can convert and resize images in the Web Page Wizard.

*Thumbnail annotations can be viewed during a slide show.

*Will show the computed similarity between selected images. Image |
Compare.

*Even more versatile batch processing, including setting file
date/time.

*OLE support for many different file formats not handled internally.

*Support for IPTC editing in batch process.

*Support for viewing EXIF information from digicam files.

*EXIF version 2.2 fields supported.

*Create thumbnails of unsupported files from the clipboard. Thumbnail
| Make from Clipboard.

*Windows Still Image support to launch ThumbsPlus automatically with
your scanner or when attaching your camera.

*Optimized palettes can be generated from multiple image files.

*Extensive DDE commands and a new command line utility.

*Extensive search capabilities with named search sets.

*Synchronized image scrolling, panning and zooming (for comparing
images).

*User-defined fields for categorizing and searching.

*Folder operations (copy, move, and rename).

*Many file sort options (similarity, orientation, image size, width,
height, date, name, numeric name, type and image size)

*Multiple customizable thumbnail views (small, large, custom, list and
report).

*Plug-in's are available for digital camera raw formats as well as
EPS, PS, PDF, AI files.

*Find similar and duplicate images based on image content.

*Digital image watermarking (using Digimarc® technology). Embed
watermarks to protect your images or detect watermarks in images
downloaded from the Internet.

*Synchronized image scrolling, panning and zooming (for comparing
images).

*Image galleries for custom ordered slide shows and quick
organization.

*Image stamping (overlay text or image).

*Freehand select, paste into.

*Multiple monitor support.

*Build canned slide shows to send to family or friends.

*Red eye removal.

*Rotate to line.

*Combine images (add, subtract, multiply, divide, and, or, xor, etc.)

*Photo printing options with print preview.

*Automatically extract EXIF information and store in user fields.

*Favorite locations for quick access to folders.

*Automatic file renaming (numbering).

*Multiple background tasks.

*Color replacement:

*Color Management

*Set, convert, remove ICC Profiles

*Stamp images with any database information

*See waveforms while playing MP3’s

*Windows Still Image support

*Tag images

*Batch IPTC Editor

*Loupe Display (magnifer)

*Copy the current selection to the view window

*Image fading

*Image Compare - computed image similarity between 2 images

*ThumbsPlus Screensaver

**ThumbsPlus supports over 100 file formats internally with many more
configurable using OLE or filters within OPTIONSPREFERENCESFILE
TYPES. (The list of formats can be seen at the end of this e-mail
information.)

__________________________________________________ ___

Metafile functions:

ThumbsPlus is the only application that I am aware of that will
actually convert vector types to *true* wmf files. It also rasterizes
metafiles. (extracts the bitmap)

Metafiles may be rotated (using Image | Rotate & Resize).

Metafile colors may be adjusted (using Image | Color Adjust).

Metafiles may be auto-cropped.

The first bitmap may be extracted from a metafile (Image | Extract
Bitmap). This is especially useful when pasting gets a metafile that
is only a bitmap.

Metafile rasterization (conversion to bitmap) can now be anti-aliased,
reducing "jaggies" and improving the appearance of the bitmap. (Image
| Convert to Bitmap).

You can remove background objects (i.e., rectangles that fill the view
area) from metafiles (Image | Remove Background).

You can specify the background color that ThumbsPlus uses when
displaying metafiles (Options | Preferences | Viewing).

Batch Processing:

Batch processing is one of the most useful and powerful capabilities
of ThumbsPlus. A "batch" is a group of files, and batch processing
performs a set of operations on each file in the batch. Here are some
examples of processes that you can do:

Convert a group of various files and save as JPEG format to different
folders.

Create a bunch of thumbnail-sized JPG files for the Web (for complete
Web page building, you can use the Web Page Wizard as well).

Convert a bunch of GIF or compressed TIFF files to PNG

Convert a bunch of files to a 256-color palette for use in a GIF or
other animation.

You can save defined batch sets and reuse them later on different sets
of files. You can even call a batch set from within another batch set!
(This can be useful, for example, to write two files -- say, a GIF and
a JPEG -- from each input file.)

You get the picture! There are thousands of combinations that can be
processed in a batch.

Digital Filters and Image Processes:

Linear, statistical and morphological digital image filters. Most
filters operate either on intensity or all channels; some can be
applied to specific color channels as well. The filters include:

*Sharpening (sharpen, sharpen less, sharpen more, directional sharpen,
unsharp mask)

*Blurring (blur, blur more, average, Gaussian 7x7, Bartlett 7x7),

*Edge detection (strong, weak, Laplacian, Laplacian inverted, Prewitt,
Sobel, morph gradient).

*Noise removal (despeckle light, despeckle dark, maximum, minimum,
median, add noise).

*Special effects (emboss dark, emboss light, etch, outline dark,
outline light).

*You can also define your own linear filters, up to 7 x 7.

*Image histograms, including histogram equalization.
*Pop Art
*Dark Edges
*Gray Edges
*Drawing

Image Processes

*Auto Color Balance
*Improve Video Capture
*Fluorescent Lighting
*General Enhancement
*Contrast Enhancement

The filters, image processes and image histograms operate on single
images, or on multiple images (batch mode).

ThumbsPlus Pro v7 now supports 16 bit per channel images: loading,
viewing, editing and saving. The following functions work with 16-bit
grayscale and 48-bit color images:


Adjust Colors
Color Depth
Color Balance
Color Profile
Swap Red & Blue
Invert Colors
Histogram
Remove Red-eye
Image Stamp
Combine
Compare
Filters
Resize
Rotate
Rotate to Line
Turn & Mirror
Trim
Autocrop
Crop/Add Borders
Cut, Copy and Paste
Processes

ThumbsPlus can now create, handle and view alpha channels in 24-bit
and 48-bit images. Alpha channels will be loaded and saved to TGA, PNG
and TIF files. You can use the View | Channels menu to select which
channels to display.

Edit | Create Alpha Channel will create an alpha channel from the
current selection.


The following image formats will be loaded as 48-bit color (or 16-bit
grayscale if appropriate):
TIFF
PSD
DCR
DCS
PNG
RAW
Images loaded using Photoshop plug-ins
Images loaded using new Cerious plug-ins
Scanned images (TWAIN)
Olympus Confocal TIFF
A new digital cameral raw plug-in (plug_digicam.tpp) is available and
in beta also, and file types loaded by this filter will be loaded as
48-bit.

When sorting by Similarity (or right-click | Show Similar), ThumbsPlus
will show an equals sign (=) on images whose metrics match the prior
image exactly.

ThumbsPlus is a market leading photo organizing and searching software
that includes editing, viewing, batch conversion/editing/resizing,
metafile support, image filtering, contact sheet creation, printed
catalogs, display slide shows, change wallpaper, launch external
editors, install and remove True Type Fonts, handle offline media and
automatically save screen and window captures. ThumbsPlus supports all
common digital cameras and file formats as well as digital video.

Already in use by professionals worldwide, ThumbsPlus is fast becoming
the preferred product for organizing, viewing and editing graphic
files. Supporting over 100 (and counting) file formats internally,
with many more formats that can be configured or accessed via OLE,
ThumbsPlus is the product of choice in its class by people who need
quick, intuitive access to their graphics. Demanding people, like
those at Intel, Microsoft, HP, Rockwell International, ATI
Technologies, the Army, Air Force and Navy, sing high praises for
ThumbsPlus. You can even find it at NASA, where ThumbsPlus accompanies
the astronauts on Space Shuttle flights!

ThumbsPlus is not just a viewer! It is an ODBC image database
management program. Keep in mind that there is no shareware Image
Database program except for ThumbsPlus that has the amount of options
and functions as ThumbsPlus and our retail competition costs much more
and still lacks the amazing features that my product offers!

Links and other misc ThumbsPlus help:

You can view the more extensive information about v6.0 he
http://www.cerious.com/notes60.shtml

You can view the extensive v7 upgrade release notes he
http://www.cerious.com/featuresv7.shtml#betanotes

Our manuals and getting started guide are found he
http://www.cerious.com/manuals.shtml

You can view our press release he
http://www.cerious.com/press.shtml

We have newsgroups that are very busy where Cerious Software employees
(and nice advanced users of ThumbsPlus) answer questions and consider
suggestions.

http://www.cerious.com/feedback.shtml If you have trouble accessing
our groups, please try the web interface found he

http://www.cerious.com/cgi-bin/dnewsweb.exe

You can access our FAQ pages he http://www.cerious.com/faq.shtml

Cerious Software is known Internet wide for our technical support for
ThumbsPlus. Please do not hesitate to send me any questions you need
assistance with.

ThumbsPlus supports over 100 file formats internally with many more
configurable using OLE or filters.

Files with ( R ) are only supported in the registered version.

AIFF, .AIF, .AU, .SND Sound files (play only, require Active Movie)
..AVI Video for Windows files
..AWD Microsoft Fax format files
..BMP,.DIB,.RLE Windows Bitmap files
..CAL CALS Raster image files
..CAM Casio Camera format files
..CDR,.PAT,.BMF CorelDRAW, CorelGALLERY files
..CEL AutoDesk Animator CEL files
..CEX CEX files
..CGM Computer Graphics Metafile (binary encoding)
..CLP Windows Clipboard/Picture
..CMP Lead Tools compressed image
..CT CT-scan files (Raw grayscale)
..CUR,.ANI Windows Cursor files
..CUT Dr. Halo files
..DCS (R) Kodak Professional DCS Camera files
..DCA IBM MMR CCIT G3 2D fax format files
..DCX Multi-image PCX files
..DXF (R) AutoCAD Exchange format files
..EPS Encapsulated Postscript files (preview image
only)
..FAX, .FXD, .FXR Fax format files
..FIF Fractal image files (Iterated Systems, Inc.)
..FPX (R) FlashPix image files
..FITS,.FTS,.HDR,.LBL NASA FITS format
..FLC Autodesk Animator
..G3, .G4 CCITT Group 3 (1-D, 2-D) & Group 4 fax
format files
..GEM GEM Metafiles
..GIF CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format files
..ICL Icon library files
..ICA IOCA Raw Group 3 (1-D, 2-D) & Group 4 fax
format files
..ICO Windows Icon files
..IFF,.LBM Amiga IFF format
..IMG GEM Image format
..IMQ NASA Compressed PDS format
..IPL IPLab files
..J6I Ricoh Camera format (JPEG with header)
..JPG,.JFI,.JIF,.JPEG JPEG compressed files (in JFIF format)
J2K, JP2 JPEG 2000 files
..KDC Kodak DC40, DC50 and DC120 digital camera
native files
..KQP Konica camera native files
..KIZ Kodak Digital Postcard files
..LZR LaserData CCITT G4 fax format files
..MAC Macintosh Paint files
..MAM Mammography files (raw grayscale)
..MIC Microsoft Image Composer
..MID Windows MIDI files
..MND,.MNI Mandelbrot for Windows image files
..MOV QuickTime Movies
..MPG (R) MPEG compressed movies
..MRI MRI scans
..NAN Nanoscope files (raw grayscale)
PBM, .PGM, PPM Conversion formats from PBMPlus/NETPBM
..PCX,.PCC ZSoft Picture files
..PCD Kodak PhotoCD files
..PCT,.PICT Macintosh PICT files (V1, V2, raster, vector)
..PDS NASA Planetary Data System format
..PIC BioRAD Confocal PIC files
..PIC SoftImage PIC
..PFB,.PSS (R) Adobe Type 1 Font files
..PMP Sony digital camera format (JPEG with header)
..PNG PiNG format files
..PSD, .PDD Adobe Photoshop, PhotoDeluxe files
..RAS,.SUN Sun Raster format
..RAW Raw grayscale or RGB images
..RGB, .SGI Silicon Graphics RGB files
..SCT SciTex CT
..SFW Seattle FilmWorks - mangled JPEG files
..ST4 Santa Barbara Instrument Group (SBIG) files
..STX, .ST5, 6, 7, 8 Santa Barbara Instrument Group (SBIG) files
..TGA,.WIN Targa Truevision files
..TIF,.TIFF Tagged Image Format files
..TTF,.TTR TrueType fonts
..UUE UUencoded files
..WAV Windows sound files
..WMF,.MF Windows Metafiles and Placeable Metafiles
..WPG WordPerfect graphics files
..DCR Kodak Professional Digital Cameras
NEF (View thumbnail support, view, editing coming
in v5.02)
..CRW (The crw support is available as a plug-in.)
THM (The thumbnail within a crw file.)

Most raw files from digital cameras including:

* ORF - Olympus raw.

* NEF Nikon raw

* MRW - Minolta raw.

* DCR - Kodak professional camera.

* SFW - Newer Seattle Filmworks files.

* - Fuji


JP

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Old September 21st 04, 08:52 AM
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On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 23:25:46 -0400, Ahle Wutz
ahlewutz__at_yah_oo_dot__com wrote:



SPAM SNIPPED

I guess Cerious is still trying to get out from under the PR cloud
they caused for themselves years ago. Now they're doing it by
spamming newsgroups, putting them right back into their own pile of
crap again.

Some jerks just never learn.


 




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