Digital BW, The Print

Actually,

I-View Media pro lets you do that.
In preview mode if the image has multiple layers you get a little 
floating palette that lets you view the image one layer at a time.

I have never found this particularly useful but it is there if you need 
it.

you can get a demo version at http://www.iview-multimedia.com/

I find this to be perhaps the best desktop database for single user 
image management.

James Haney
jhaney@...




On Monday, January 7, 2002, at 01:16 PM, Todd Flashner wrote:

> 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
>
>

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