Thumbnail Manager

[Bartelmy]

I currently use two external thumbnail managers (one is better with dng format and the other is better with webp format) but it would be very helpful if Affinity could build a thumbnail manager to work with Photo 2.

One of my current thumbnail managers uses an intermediate Windows facility to get hold of webp files: this is slow and bumpy so, ideally, any Affinity thumbnail manager would work natively with webp format as well as dng format.

Thanks. Bart.

 

[walt.farrell]

What does a Thumbnail Manager do?

[Bartelmy]

A thumbnail manager is, in effect, a digital photograph album. It collects all the available images into one place and presents them tidily and visibly using thumbnails of a size chosen by the user: this is much better than the miserable, slow, clunky options available through the Windows Explorer. The thumbnail viewer will often offer a window in which to preview images and some basic image manipulation routines - eg colour temperature, rotation and simple effects such as 'oil paint'.This facility is very useful to obtain a sense of what needs to be done before passing an image to Photo to be adjusted in detail. It is essential for such a program to work efficiently with both dng and webp formats - so many programs struggle with one or both of these.

I have used FastStone for years to accomplish these tasks but it struggles with webp; it would be good to have this facility within the Affinity suite so as to have a simplified work flow in which the different parts speak natively to each other.

Bart

 

[walt.farrell]

Thanks. The more usual term is Digital Asset Manager, or DAM, and you'll find many existing requests for that function in the Feedback section already