Digital BW, The Print

The one problem I've found when researching these programs (and I 
haven't tried Cumulus yet) is that they have a problem with 
previewing Layered Photoshop files (layers & channels intact). Some 
will work ok if you've saved the file with backward compatibility 
(essentiallyy saves a flattened version along with the layered 
version) but this increases the file size dramatically. It's an 
inconsistant problem and I've had tons of email contact with various 
tech support people about this. Even top programs like Portfolio5 
fail on this score.
Frankg
> Cleavis,
>  I've found Cumulus S5.0 (CANTO)to be excellent for naming and 
categorizing
> photos. It is a bit more complicated to set up at first but once the
> directories are set-up the actual assignment of the photos to these
> directories is easy & search parameters are excellent.. I've also 
used Photo
> Explorer 7.0 Pro (U LEAD) much easier to set-up but not as detailed 
an
> interface. It has a nice screen saver/slide show piece to it. 
Finally, I
> really like the program entitled Pica View (ACD SYSTEMS), an add-on 
to
> Windows explorer which may fit your request for a nice thumbnail 
viewer
> without having to open up a image database program. It is really a 
nifty
> little add-on I use constantly.
>  Frank
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lyonscox [mailto:lyonscox@m...]
> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 9:49 AM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y...
> Subject: [Digital BW] Additional organizing software...
> 
> Same thing here but wanted to have separate threads.  Thanks to 
those
> who responded recently about storage and organization software.  
It's
> made me look at 'how' I'm doing it now and what could be better.
> 
> Could people comment (once again) on systems they are using and what
> in particular features they feel are critical to help them.  One
> impression I got from looking at some of the software was larger
> thumbnails than explorer provides and a search feature (if you are
> disciplined enough) to find files when text description is attached.
> 
> Thanks, again, for the input.  Learning seems to be at least a two
> stage process for me :-) on the short side.
> 
> Cleavis
> 
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