The easy solution to image management.
Written: Dec 04 '99
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Pros: Performs a huge range of functions very well indeed.
Cons: None
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| the.knight's Full Review: Cerious Thumbs Plus |
Thumbs Plus has those magic words ... "free download". It is shareware, with a nag screen, and you should register it after 30 days, even though it will keep working indefinately.
Thumbs Plus, is without doubt, the easiest way to create web-pages with thumbnail galleries. It is supremely adjustable in the style and format you can choose for it to create the thumbnail pages in.
For anyone new to publishing terms, thumbnails are the miniature versions of images that are used to help you browse through a selection at a glance.
I make web-graphics as part of my living, and being able to point my clients to pages of thumbnail images is invaluable. Thumbs plus has proven to be equally invaluable in that process. Anyone reading this who has a website with pictures of themselves, their friends, or favourite photographs would be well advised to give thumbs plus a try.
Thumbs Plus does more than make thumbnail images and create pages automatically though. It creates a database of all images you like, lets you add keywords or descriptions, and can then be used to quickly find any image based on those keywords or descriptions.
It allows for easy browsing of large image collections, lots of graphics editors have that facility, but only thumbs plus is as fast in my experience. Nor does it scatter those database files in every directory where it finds images (as Paintshop pro does).
Thumbs plus also has basic image editing and re-touching features built in. I don't use them very often has I have more dedicated (and expensive) software for such tasks, but I do use it for the occassional quick-fix or colour adjustment / image cropping. The results have never disappointed.
There are better tools for specific jobs (I have the Corel 8 suite and use ULead Gif Animator to compress gifs or make quick banners) but for the full range there seem to be no true rivals to thumbs plus.
Since its free to try then do so, but I warn you, once you have it its hard to even think of being without it again so you'll probably want to buy it.
Recommended:
Yes
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