On 21 Apr 2006 at 18:25, Don Williams wrote: > For a quick look Picassa2 is very much faster than either CS or even > RSE. No waiting -- the image appears instantly and > since Picassa updates its database continuously the browser is always up > to date. It takes minutes for the thumbnails to > appear in the CS browser after a card full of images is added to a > directory and I have quite a fast PC. RSE is nippier but > still slower than Picassa2. And RSE is not as easy to use. I find some > things a little strange and non-intuitive. I'm starting to > use the Photoshop CS RAW plug-in more since I got the updated version -- > only days ago.
I loaded up Picasa 2 just to see what everyone was on about. Boy it's cute, very pretty, visually I could almost believe I was working on a Mac but that's where the joy ends. It's not very robust, it crashed on me a couple of times, it still can't find many of my subs even though they have been flagged for thumbnailing, the sequence in which it build thumbnails I can't work out, it seems random mostly. On the whole I'm not really impressed though I could see that it's definitely got market appeal and would be more than suitable for a lot of home users. The CS browser just locks up my system every time I browse a sub full of images, it's completely hopeless, the CS2 system may be better but I haven't had the opportunity to use it yet. It just seems that every time I try out a new you beaut image management utilities I still end up coming back to ThumbsPlus, it's not pretty and it may not offer everything I desire in such a utility but it's very robust, predictable and is able to handle large volumes of data without hesitation or failure, that's a big plus in my books. There is a thread at dpreview discussing image file management at the moment, it's worth a read: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1036&message=18107756 Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:/home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
