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ThumbsPlus is a powerful graphics editing program that allows users to organize, view, and edit images from their hard drives. Some of its capabilities include watermarking, extensive search options, redeye removal, customizable toolbars and a plethora of other applications that can be reviewed at here .
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I wouldn't worry just yet about the website. I chatted with the president of the company the other day, and she was upbeat about the company's future. Having said that, the company had a disastrous upgrade from version 7 to 8, followed by a very quick upgrade to 9. That hurt the company. I stayed with v7 Pro throughout their problems and am still happy with it.
To answer you question, I've been researching various programs for a book, and I honestly don't think there is anything out there that does everything ThumbsPlus does. For example, one feature I use a lot that so few other programs do as well, if at all, is sort by similarity. If you have two or more identical files with different names, ThumbsPlus will find them and sort them together out of hundreds of photos. I would have trouble doing without that very handy feature.
If you are a Canon user, DPP has a capable browser, as does ViewNX2 for Nikon users. Some people like ACDSee and there are several nice freeware programs. Of course, all of the Adobe and Corel programs include browsers, but, repeating: I know of nothing that does everything ThumbsPlus does.
I'm using Thumbsplus 10 and there is a total lack of news on their website. As far as I can tell, Thumbsplus is dead. We were promised HEIC and webp support as well as some bug fixes in Version 11 but the last thing they said was Covid-19 forced them to work at home. It doesn't take three years to move a business. Any legitimate developer would be giving us status reports but not these guys.
They are still selling Version 10 but there is no longer any word about Version 11. They should be posting in their user forum. If this program isn't dead I'd sure like to know why they don't talk about it anymore.
When loading Kodak Photo CD images into an image editing application, you will quickly discover that not all imaging applications are createdequal when it comes to Photo CD. I've seen many complaints about"washed out" images when loaded into Photoshop, and bad attempts atexplanation by the labs that produce these scans. On this pageyou will learn the real story.
This had happened in the past, but not quite as badly as this one particular time. At first I wasn't sure whether it was me,or Kodak. I knew I was using my on-camera flash in automatic mode, and that it was somewhat unreliable. But, on close examination of thenegative, there was plenty of detail in these blown out areas. So I decided it had to be Kodak's fault.I was really fed up, and swore I would never use Photo CD again.After I cooled down a bit I thought I would look a little moreclosely at the problem and see if there was some solution.
If you ask some folks about this problem, you'll hear all sorts ofexplanations. Some blame it on the Gamma of the Photo CD images vs.the typical PC monitor Gamma. Others claim that if you load the images into Lab mode (set your destination profile to CIELAB) this problem goes away. Still others recommend you use the Kodak Photo CDAcquire Module (3.0.2 is the latest I tested).Some suggest upgrading the Kodak Photo CD File Format Plug-Into Kodak's latest version 3.0.7. I tried all of those things, and kept getting theexact same results: Lost Highlights.
Fortunately I was familiar with Kodak's Photo CD referenceimage which can be found in theirPCD-102 white paper. So I decided to use it as a standard to test various applications to see how much highlight informationwas being lost. You can see the analysis I did in the "DangerousCurves" section below.
At this time I was also carefully reading all of the technical information about Photo CD that I possibly could. Being a Mathematician and Software Engineer, I had no trouble decipheringKodak's technical documents. Two things caught my eye as I was reading. The first was Kodak'sPCD-042 white paper and specifically table 3. This table details a curve to be used for compressing highlight informationin a Photo CD image. That seemed like a pretty good lead.
In a nutshell, Kodak recommends that applications use a Lookup Table (LUT) after converting the PhotoYCC data from thePhoto CD into RGB. Apparently the conversion yields numbers thatrange from 0 to 346 instead of the usual 0 to 255. So thisHighlight Compressing LUT should squeeze the 0 to 346 numbersback into the 0 to 255 range. By the end of allmy experimentation, I discovered that this was indeed wherethe washed out/lost highlights problem lies.
It was at about this time that I was complaining on USENET'srec.photo.digital newsgroup, and someone mentioned a softwarepackage called "Picture Window" that might help. Eager to find a solution I installed Picture Window and ran my usual set of tests withthe reference image. I was absolutely amazed. As I knew might bepossible, Picture Window loaded the image with no highlight loss at all.
Having noted Picture Window's victory in solving the Lost HighlightsProblem, I went to work to see if I could solve it myself by modifyingKodak's software. I specifically targeted Kodak's PCDLIB32.DLL which isused by many applications such as ThumbsPlus and Paint Shop Proto load Photo CD images. After an hour or so, I had found the LookupTable (LUT) that was responsible for the data loss, and changed it topreserve the highlights like Picture Window. With this patched Photo CD library, I can now useThumbsPlus to load Photo CD images with no highlight loss at all.
Note that Picture Window adjusted the black point automatically,and upped the saturation quite a bit. My patch gives a more realisticresult similar to the unpatched library. All the highlight data is present in both images. If Picture Windowdoes its math right, you should be able to get more shadow detail usingPicture Window than you can with my patch.
I've always known Kodak made a Photo CD player at one time. Outof curiosity, I searched ebay and found one. $50 later I became theowner of it. The moment it arrived, it was a rush to find out how theplayer would treat my washed out image. The result was unexpected.The Photo CD player worked like Picture Window. So whoever implementedthe Photo CD player must have realized that Kodak's highlight compressingLUT was a bad idea, and removed it. Good for them! I'm glad somebodyagrees with me and Picture Window.
Now we have three different ways to load a Photo CD image. Each of them differs in the severity of their Highlight CompressionLUT. Picture Window has a linear Highlight Compression LUT and will not compress away any highlight detail from an image. ThumbsPlusand Paint Shop Pro use a moderate Highlight Compression LUT thatdoes lose some highlight information. And lastly, Photoshopweighs in with the most extreme Highlight Compression LUT thatdestroys a significant amount of the highlight data quiteeffectively.
While digging deeper into the Photo CD system, I discovered exactlywhere the responsibilities lie for these behaviors. Photoshop usesKodak's Photo CD File Format Plug-In (hereafter referred to as "the Plug-In") to load Photo CD images. This is where the extreme HighlightCompression LUT lives that causes the horrible results with Photoshop. ThumbsPlus and Paint Shop Pro both use Kodak'sPCDLIB32.DLL toolkit to load Photo CD images. PCDLIB32.DLL has themoderate Highlight Compression LUT. Picture Window does its own thing,and can be considered in a separate class that it shares with thePhoto CD player.
If you've been having trouble with blown highlights,I suggest you go through my list of Software that Really SupportsKodak Photo CD. There you'll find quick reviews of a numberof software applications that let you get all the highlight informationout of a Photo CD image. Most of them have free trials you can downloadto see which one suits your needs the best.
Note that Picture Window is linear, but with a littlebit of loss in the shadows. This is probably Picture Window's Auto-Levelsalgorithm which adjusts the black point to some small percentageof the shadow information. You can see in the example images above that PictureWindow does produce a somewhat dark image. The advantage is that forthe remaining image data, you should get more detail. Still it would benice to be able to set the black point percentage in Picture Window'sAuto-Levels algorithm.
Photoshop (PS5 sRGB) is similar to ThumbsPlus, but much worse. The highlight compression starts to kick in at around 160. Thiscauses a severe loss of highlight information.This result applies to Photoshop 5.5 and all prior versions.It will probably apply to all future versions unless by some miracleKodak changes the Photo CD File Format Plug-In. You might aswell just wait 'til Hell freezes over.
The Lost Highlights Problem is most noticeable with color and b/w negative scans. With transparency scans, it is not as bad, but it isstill a serious problem (especially in Photoshop). Check out my Photo CD and Transparency Filmpage for more info.
I tried to avoid any kind of processing on the images shown so youcan see the effects of Kodak's Photo CD software when loading images.I stuck to the sRGB color space, performed no density adjustments, resized the images and saved them as JPEG, quality level 6. Whatyou see here is very close to exactly what you would get when loadingPhoto CD images as described.
If you'd like to run the tests yourself to verify my results, oryou'd like to test your favorite imaging app, go to my Photo CD Experimentpage for all the details. There you can download my test imagesand follow my steps to reproduce the problems.
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