Create and customize image database by importing and managing files in multiple formats. The suite supports thumbnails for a quick preview, features batch editing functions for resizing, panning and cropping, cataloging tools, etc. It supports multimedia and font files, digital images, vector files, fonts, videos, and metafiles.
The main aim of ThumbsPlus is to help you keep your photo collection perfectly organized and documented with minimum effort. Besides, this tool includes a series of useful extras that will allow you to edit and convert your images, to produce nice-looking slideshows, and even to print catalogs or create contact sheets of your favorite shots. All the most popular image file formats are supported.
At first glance, the program’s multi-paneled interface may seem a bit cluttered and unorganized. Far from it, ThumbsPlus offers an intuitive working space where the images in your collection are neatly displayed as thumbnails in the center of the interface, flanked by the location and preview panels on the left and the metadata and tasks panels on the right. The location panel is essential to help you organize your collection in meaningful directories, folders, and subfolders, while the preview panel will open up in a high-quality image viewer that will display the image selected in all its glory. Metadata are of the essence for any serious image collection. They do not only provide you with professional and personal detailed info about each photograph, but also allow you to find a picture in particular among the hundreds or thousands of other photos in your archive. ThumbsPlus offers you a wide range of tags that you can use in whatever way fits your preferences and needs. You can create your own sets of metadata, and apply them to different categories, to different products, or to different media, for instance. You can also edit the metadata of your photo albums in batches – you can select a specific set of data and apply the assigned values to any number of images in one single operation, modify the existing values, etc.
Apart from having all your photos perfectly cataloged and classified, ThumbsPlus is also a great tool to edit your images, either individually or in batches. Not being designed as a fully-fledged image editor, the editing tools provided are far from comprehensive, but will let you rotate, flip, and turn your pictures easily and without any quality loss. You can also normalize their orientation, modify the file information, and convert them into a dozen of the most widely used image file formats, such as TIFF, BMP, PNG, PCX, GIF, JPG, and even RAW. Equally important is the range of by-products that you can create with your photos without leaving ThumbsPlus. You can produce pro-looking contact sheets, catalogs, slideshows, wallpapers, and even take full-screen or partial screenshots of your desktop.
ThumbsPlus is much more than a simple photo organizer – it is a professional tool to document your photos, to view and locate them, to keep them neatly organized, and the number of extras that come with it are not easy to find in most similar tools.
v10.1 [Nov 27, 2015]
User interface changes:
- Added Main Window Dialog Position to Options - Preferences - General.
- Fixed initial locations of some main window dialogs to properly locate based on preferences.
- Fixed not graying Render Alpha menu option when non-alpha image.
- Improved appearance and utility of Help - Program Updates.
- Fixed initial folder selected when browsing to select a folder.
- Fixed move/copy a file during slide show would bring the main ThumbsPlus window to the front.
- Maximum view window zoom increased to 128X.
- Added hard-coded zooms Ctrl+1,2,... to 10%, 20%, etc.
- Improved readability of the Metadata panel by setting the default to Use thumbnail colors everywhere in Options - Customize - Colors. If you're upgrading, I recommend enabling this option, or clicking Use defaults.
- Added an option in Options - Preferences - Confirmations for the confirmation of File - Delete to default to Yes, to match Windows Explorer behavior. The default for deleting folders default remains No for safety.
- In Options - Customize, I changed the customization category of several command from Clipboard to Edit, to match where they are on the main menu. Renamed the Clipboard category to Clipboard Copy. I also moved Tag and Untag Thumbnail to the Thumbnail category, as they were misplaced in Edit. (In the future, I will reduce the number of categories and disambiguate some ambiguous commands!)
- Changed the default for overwriting files during Image - Batch Process and Thumbnail - Export to be Yes, to match default Windows behavior.
- Fixed the height of the Metadata toolbar to match the heights of the Location and Thumbnail View toolbars.
- Fixed the File toolbar in the View window to be customizable.
- Cleaned up the database history in the Database - Open flyout menu to remove duplicates, sort by most recent, and check the currently-opened database.
- File - Properties wasn't always showing the proper file size for files larger than 4 GB.
- Made File - Copy and File - Move menu flyouts only add the special folders specified in Options - Proferences - Disks and Folders. Also made the names consistent with what shows in the main folder tree.
- Thumbnail - Remove - From Folder was not updating the thumbnail view.
- The Image - Color Adjust and Image - Color Depth dialogs did not have titles.
- Added File - Close Others to the view window menu (to close all other windows besides the current one).
- Moved Repair and Compact from Database - Advanced to the main Database menu.
- Added Database - Advanced - Move Thumbnails to Files to make the process easier (in earlier versions you had to type several Python commands).
- Fixed several blank dialog box captions (Color Depth, Adjust Color, and External Program).
- Improved Python panel command handling and progress display, and added an Open button to run a .py file.
- Added (READONLY) to the main window title bar when the database cannot be updated (due to permissions or if it's on an non-writable device).
High-DPI monitor (scaling) support improvements
- Fixed some dialog strings that were truncated at high dpis.
- Fixed narrow width of error message windows.
- Added ability to adjust dpi from debug menu (very limited capability; affects about screen and other manual scaling, but not dialogs).
- Added an option to Scale Icons in the main window toolbars based on screen dpi, in Options - Customize - Options.
- The panel toolbars (Location, Thumbnail View, Metadata) icons and combo boxes are now scaled and sized properly at high dpis.
- There are a few minor issues remaining (for example, some custom button bitmaps are too small, and the some image operation preview window menu buttons need to be larger). I will be continuing to improve high DPI support.
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