"Leon Altoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I looked at Thumnbs plus several times during their beta testing and >the colour was always horrible. If they have improved it then that's >good.
I think they've fixed that now. Looks good to me, anyway. >ACDC displayed the thumbnails of PEF files for me, but gave the >dimensions as half of the correct size. Same here. But an email to ACD Systems revealed that this is a *deliberate* limitation of ACDSee. You have to buy their PhotoPro plug-in for it in order to get full-size RAW conversion. (And at $49.00 for ACDSee and $39.00 for PhotoPro, it's still reasonably priced.) This wasn't made very clear on their web page before - I think they've revised it since. >They both used so much processor time that I gave up on both of them. >I need a program for previewing images not cataloging them. I need both, but I'm more interested in the cataloging and batch conversion (from RAW files). >Bibble annoyed me when it took over Photoshop. After reinstalling it >with out the Photoshop plugin I find that the time it takes to >correctly display a 1:1 image that is being scrolled is annoying. >Maybe it's my machine, but a 2.2GHz Celron should be able to cope. Have you tried the latest version of Bibble (4.0) that became available last week? >I use Breeze Browser for viewing and then PhotoshopCS for editing. >Breeze Browser will convert and the colours are quite good in the >latest version. It will also extract the embedded jpegs. I also >bought their downloader pro program which allows for changing of image >names and various other nifty things (useful after you have taken 10000 >images and the names revert to the beginning). At the moment iView MediaPro is the front runner for winning my money and finding a place on my computer. It's fast. Has powerful categorization and sorting capability. It lets me view my image files in a spreadsheet-like table (*without* thumbnails, if I want - and I often do). Batch conversion of RAW files, renaming, etc. I have a feeling there's a lot more in it that I just haven't discovered yet. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
