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From: "Gene Stuff" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] naming/captioning photos
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 16:38:59 +0000


>From: Collene Pearce <>
> >
> > In Adobe Photoshop a caption can be added to each image by file > file
>info > caption. That makes the caption a part of the image file itself.
>
>Yes. I think this may be the more "GUI" way of extending the
>"canvas" beneath the photo layer and adding text to it. Although
>my "text" becomes part of the image, too, I believe you are
>probably using the Adobe format, when you save your pics.
>I try to stay away from anything like that. Portability/
>migratability is now my most important criteria. ;-)
>

You are making some wrong assumptions. I store all my photos as either tiff
(for permanent archive) or jpeg (for more routine use). The captions in
Photoshop are not stored as a layer. The caption is stored in the image
file as part of the header.

> > A great feature of Thumbsplus is that it can read and display the >
>photo
> > captions as entered in Photoshop. (by file > property > info).
>
>It's my understanding, that this is only the case, if you store
>your images as you do; not as I do (as jpegs). If I remember
>correctly (and my memory may be faulty), that Thumbs feature
>only works w/ Adobe images, if you use the proprietary Adobe
>captioning/file format features. :-(

Again a wrong assumption, ThumbsPlus reads the captions from both tiff and
jpeg images. I haven't tried, but I'm pretty sure it can also read captions
from other bitmap graphics formats such as gif, bmp, Photoshop, etc.
Previous versions of Thumbsplus could read the captions only from Tiff, but
the most recent reads the jpeg captions also.

>
> > Though I share your sentiments about lack of dependency on software, I
> >love
> > Thumbsplus. Also, the latest version is now based on a MS Access
> >database,....
>
>To me, this is not an advantage. ;-)...

It is a big advantage over more obscure proprietary database formats.
Access databases can be imported into several other database packages and
can be read by programming languages like Visual Basic and SAS. This
enhances the future portability of the data.

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