On Sun, 23 May 2004 12:12:57 +0800, Shaun Canning wrote: >Anyone using Thumbsplus 6.0 Pro? I see it now supports *.PEF RAW files >as well as doing heaps of other really cool stuff?
Shaun, I've been looking at Thumbs Plus recently. It will do what they claim you can view thumbnails of your.PEF files and do all the databasing and so on. Where it falls down is that it doesn't correctly display the PEF files when you view them. The thumbnails are done from the embedded Jpeg, but when you view it (or try to edit it) the colours are wrong because it doesn't process any of the image information stored in the PEF file. The Camera RAW plugin is still in it's beta versions so may improve. I have also spoken to the people at ACDSee who have told me that they may include PEF file support in the next version, but they weren't sure. I've looked at version 2.9 of Breeze Browser http://www.breezesys.com/index.htm This appears to use the embedded Jpeg for thumbnails and viewing and comes closer than Thumbplus to getting the colours right when internally editing. I am happy with this for my purposes as I can have Breeze Browser throw to Photoshop CS for editing. Leon http://www.bluering.org.au http://www.bluering.org.au/leon
