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[4]	2005-09-26		ThumbsPlus sucks because it has no version support. Every time you edit a picture in Photoshop and serve it as a different version all comments in UserFields are gone...
[1]	2005-04-04		pros: network capable (i.e. 5 machines share a db with thumbs, etc. - no need to regen per machine) fast supports all popular raw formats + plugins from photoshop batch mode for processing and conversion IPTC image info + EXIF data easy to get at cons: meta tagging UI sucks. hopefully they'll improve this long term. If I could have thumbsplus with adobe's ui for tagging they'd have a runaway hit.
[6]	2005-04-04		I use Thumbs Plus - it uses an Access Database (or other ODBC source - I've personally hosted mine as a SQL database) - with an open schema that I can run queries against to find dups, etc. (it stores an MD5 hash of each image - so it makes it really easy to find timages that are EXACTLY THE SAME). I use it becasue: Support for multiple plugins (including camera raw for canon, nikon , etc.) to generate thumbnails. The database is multiple machine compatible (i.e. I can access it from any of the 5 pcs in the house and view any of the thumbnails located on any of the machines) ability to tag images in the database or in the exif/iptc portion of the actual file ability to archive to dvd and have thumbnails and meta data for offline content stored in the db and still browsable/searchable ability to quickly/easily create logical galleries which are just a collection of images from anywhere they are stored (i.e. they can be offline, online, same hard drive, different machine, etc.) it handles the 27,000+ images I have to date including rougly 150GB of scanned slides/negatives that are 150MB per image PNG files (mostly archived to DVD now) - it only had to gen the thumbs once and I can view the thumbs and access the files quickly and easily from any machine. it can do batch operations (file conversions, scripts to add watermark, etc.)
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