Mike,

Windows ME is the version that introduced the great thumbnail support.
Works very nicely there. However, I've personally just not been able to get
into using the Windows thumbnails. It seems they are always too small, and
when I'm looking at an entire folder of similar images.

I do, on the other hand, make extensive use of the thumbnail views in PSP
when processing a series of images. Also, I will almost always use ACDSee
to "cull" my images. With it, I can quickly scan through an entire folder
of images and, any time I want to keep one, I can make a copy of it to a
targeted folder with just a couple of mouse clicks. I can even easily
delete the ones that I really shouldn't keep.

Gary Tollefson

Hi Ken,

I know that you or somebody gave a link to the source of the EXIF thingy on
the digital_astro list but I missed it at that time. Google actually gives
serious hits on "EXIF thingy", but none look like the one you are using.
Could you pass on the actual app name and/or download source.

Thanks,

Gary Tollefson

Windows 2000 and XP both support thumbnail images in most of the
system windows like My Computer. Thumbnail images can also be
displayed in the Open or Select File dialog boxes of applications. It
is really nice to be able to choose List, Details, or Thumbnails from
the View button on all of the Open or Select File dialog boxes in IP.

I am sure that this is obvious to users of Windows 2000 or XP but may
not be to users of Windows 98. I don't know if ME has built it image
thumbnails.

Mike

I don't know if ME has built it image thumbnails.

Yup. That's one of the things I like about it.

Most of the time, I don't have to open a viewer to see what I want to know. And with that EXIF thingy, I can just hover
the mouse over the image and get the EXIF info. What would really be nice is a little program to go through a dir and
make a text file associating the filename and the EXIF info.

Ken

Hi Gary

Windows ME is the version that introduced the great thumbnail
support.
Works very nicely there. However, I've personally just not been able
to get into using the Windows thumbnails. It seems they are always
too small, and when I'm looking at an entire folder of similar
images.

The thumnails can be a problem. I use a 19" monitor and stretch the
open or select dialog box in IP to cover most of the screen. The
thumbnails are then about 1.5" square and large enough to work with.

I posted a screen shot of the above in the Analysis folder. The open
dialog box is pointed at a directory that contains standard image
processing test files. The images with the vertical lines are 16 bit
ber channel monochrome and color TIFF files. Windows 2000 does not
understand 16 bit per channel TIFF files.

Mike

Hi Gary

Windows ME is the version that introduced the great thumbnail
support. Works very nicely there. However, I've personally just not
been able to get into using the Windows thumbnails. It seems they
are always too small, and when I'm looking at an entire folder of
similar images.

I stretch the Open or Select File dialog boxes in IP to cover almot
the entire screen. On a 19" monitor the thumnails are 1.5" square and
large enough to work with. The Analysis folder contains a screen shot
showing a stretched Open dialog box. Images with vertical lines
through them are 16 bit monochrome and color TIFF files. Windows 2000
does not understand how to read 16 bit per channel TIFF files.

Mike