Digital BW, The Print

Frank

Oh, so you are saying you want to be able to view an image's layers inside
of the thumbnail program? I highly doubt any will do that, these programs
are designed to be databases, not image editors. Reading individual layers
and channels would adversely affect their speed and the size of their
database files. Mind if I ask why you want that feature from a database
program?

Todd

> Todd,
> I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but with Cumulus I'm able to catalog my
> files (assets-cumulus calls then) in the catalogs I form with the software.
> A thumbnail of the saved file will appear and can be opened up in any
> program supporting that file extension (which includes its own viewer); even
> if it is a .psd file but I guess if I wanted to just to see one layer of the
> psd file I would have to open it with Photoshop , which a choice  the
> program gives me when I right click on the file thumbnail. Hope this helps.
> Frank
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Todd Flashner [mailto:tflash@...]
> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 8:25 AM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Additional organizing software...
> 
> on 1/7/02 9:45 AM, Bill Morse wrote:
> 
>> Frank, have you found anything that can read PS layers?
> 
> When you ask if these programs can read layered images, do you mean to make
> thumbnails of them? I think most of these programs can.
> 
> I know at least Portfolio and Iview Media Pro can thumbnail layered images.
> Both are pretty easy to work with; you can just take a folder of images and
> drag and drop them onto an open window and these programs will thumbnail
> them. From there you can sort them by various criteria. There very helpful.
> 
> I'm not a heavy user, so I can't tell you which program is really better,
> but my current preference is for Iview Media. It seems a bit faster, has a
> slightly more robust feature set than Portfolio, and it can display lots of
> file types, like MP3s, PDFs, etc.
> 
> I wonder why your efforts with layered images failed. Maybe you need to
> allocate more RAM to the program if you are using it for large files. Or
> perhaps something was set in the preferences to only *display* certain file
> types, like jpegs, or something screwy like that.
> 
> For the PC I think there are a couple that are said to be good and are
> reasonably priced, I think one might even be free. I think one is called
> Thumbsplus, and the other Infranview. Something like that....
> 
> Todd