[Dec Photothumb Db Viewer
Kody Coste
I'm sure this has already been answered. But I'm working on some autumn images with really intense reds and yellows. The images look fine in Lightroom, but when I export as JPEGs the saturation just looks too much (I'm looking at the JPEGs in Microsoft "Photos", the default programme in Windows). So first question, when I upload to Alamy, are the thumbnails going to look like my JPEGs in Microsoft "Photos" or like what I'm seeing in Lightroom?
If your Internet browser, and Windows Photo browser are both colour managed applications, and set to use the same (monitor) profile as LR then they should look reasonably similar. Check what profile Windows is using (Settings - Color Calibration), hopefully it's your calibrated monitor profile? Try soft proofing in LR using the same profile.
Thanks, I've checked and Windows and Firefox are using my calibrated profile. Maybe it's just an idiosyncracy of the Microsoft "Photos" programme. I think I'll just go off of what they look like in Lightroom. Here's to discerning customers!
One of the problems I saw with the Windows Photos application in Windows 7 was that it was incompatible with Version 4 ICC profiles. I had to set my monitor calibration software to generate Version 2 profiles then the rendering was correct. No idea whether Microsoft have fixed that yet.
Well... I'm looking at the thumbnails on the Alamy upload screen and they look the same as in Lightroom. My suggestion would be that Microsoft haven't fixed it yet. I'd noticed for a while Windows Photos wasn't quite true, but it was never different enough to worry about. But this set of pictures makes it really obvious. Thanks, glad it wasn't just me.
You don't say which version of Windows you are using but as you refer to Microsoft "Photos" I'm assuming you're using windows 10. The default photos app in Windows 10 is not colour managed and images look very over saturated on wide gamut screens (as do desktop wallpapers ?). The old windows photo viewer can be reinstated however, see -to-restore-the-windows-photo-viewer-on-windows-10/. This seems to be compatible with version 4 colour profiles.
The default photos app in Windows 10 is not colour managed and images look very over saturated on wide gamut screens (as do desktop wallpapers ?). The old windows photo viewer can be reinstated however, see -to-restore-the-windows-photo-viewer-on-windows-10/. This seems to be compatible with version 4 colour profiles.
Thumbs Viewer allows you to extract thumbnail images from the Thumbs.db, ehthumbs.db, ehthumbs_vista.db, Image.db, Video.db, TVThumb.db, and musicThumbs.db database files found on various Windows operating systems.
The main menu will allow you to save entries, export entries to a CSV (comma-separated values) file, remove entries from the list (the database is not modified), and map local files to hashed filenames (for databases created by Windows Vista and above).
When an item is selected, an image window will pop up to preview the thumbnail. You can move the image around the window with the mouse or arrow keys. Each arrow key will move the image 1 pixel in that direction. By holding Ctrl and pressing an arrow key, the image will move 5 pixels. By holding Shift and pressing an arrow key, the image will move 25 pixels.
To scale the image you can press the + or - keys to zoom in or out respectively. If you have a mouse wheel, you can scroll forward to zoom in, or scroll back to zoom out. If you don't have a mouse wheel, you can hold the right mouse button down and click the left mouse button to zoom in, or hold the left mouse button down and click the right mouse button to zoom out. Confused?
Example to open: thumbs_viewer.exe Thumbs.db
Example to save thumbnails: thumbs_viewer.exe -o Output Thumbs.db
Example to save a CSV (comma-separated values) file: thumbs_viewer.exe -c example.csv Thumbs.db
Hi, I know this has been discussed before, but I am currently just filing my photos into windows explorer with a date and few words in the file name on what they are and they are stored in the cloud. My photo library has now become too big for me to remember where things are and I spend a lot of time looking for photos I want to find. I'm really enjoying using Affinity Photo (and know there's no photo file management system yet available). I am looking for something that would have a one-off payment as I don't want to lock into a subscription. It doesn't need to be free, but I am hoping for something that wont get discontinued (eg Picasa). I've had a search on the internet and have a couple of names: Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Bridge, Phototheca3, Abemeda, XNViewMP, Irfanview - I know there are more, but I got a bit overwhelmed. I don't need a program that edits as I have Affinity for that, so just a photo file management system I can use in conjunction with Affinity Photo is what I need. I use Windows. Can anyone suggest something - I'm not looking for anything too complex.
Check out Photo Supreme. It is a DAM, and a powerful one. It is not for editing (like Luminar, Capture One, On1, or Lightroom) nor is it a raw processor. It focusses exclusively on file management. Paid, not free. Available for Mac and Windows.
Thanks for the tip on FastRAW Viewer, I bought a seat based on your recomendation after trying it out for about 30 minutes. It isn't without some issues, but seems nice and streamlined for strictly culling.
And you are correct, Mechanic is much more about Culling than a traditional DAM. I think my perspective is that is also has robust tagging and metadata so with the goal of searching for a photo - it doesnt' help cover that need.
As someone who has recently decided, for various reasons but principally cost saving, that after many years I am going to switch from LS/PS to Affinity Photo the question of which DAM to use is very significant. Needless to say the preference would be an Affinity DAM with the obvious opportunity of it being a Persona and hence part of Photo/Publisher/Designer and thus completing the set as part of Studio Link. However, from what I can gather from my very short time delving into the Affinity world, there is little or no prospect of that happening soon or indeed at all which is a great shame.
Therefore the search for a DAM to enable me to continue to use the excellent collections/smart collections in LR continues. There is Bridge which is free to anyone and after looking at some of the options it does look very competitive. However if you have had an Adobe subscription for LR Classic it turns out you can continue using it even after your subscription runs out. Needles to say things which plug into the wider Adobe CC world cease to function but the pure DAM side is alleged to continue working. If that is indeed the case I will probably stick to that for now whilst I look for sensibly priced, by that I mean free in an ideal world, alternative or the Affinity DAM does materialise. There are downsides to both Bridge and LR in that neither recognize afphoto and hence you have to use tiff or export a JPG to provide a thumbnail but that is doable albeit a bit of a pain.
As an aside I of the opinion, that after my brief time using Affinity Photo, I am starting to find it better than PS in many ways. Some of what I initially thought were negatives simply turn out to be different and/or the way AP works is such that essential steps in PS are simply not required. For example smart objects in PS are important but in AP seem to be almost redundant as a concept.
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