It was unresponsive to keyboard or mouse. Without any warning the image portion went completely black and Lightroom hung.

I was using my newly acquired skills with the Lightroom Adjustment Brush to try “dodging” an over-exposed portion of a picture. Perhaps this integrated approach to image management has its downside. Reverse-migration would be such a pain I don’t want to think about it.Ĭongratulations Cerious! I wish you success. For one, ThumbsPlus has not moved to storing all the editing information in the database like Lightroom. I am sure there would be many other headaches. That should mean I can migrate photos easily keeping the keywords and other metadata intact. Fortunately one of the new features in ThumbsPlus 8 is XMP support. Thus if Lightroom breaks down on me I may have to go back to ThumbsPlus. That would address my requirement that I want one database for every picture I have ever taken or will take in my life. You can use it with an external database, for example MySQL. I cannot see how they would ever get me back given my investment in Lightroom (time, not money).įor me the biggest advantage of ThumbsPlus 8 is their scalability. I talked about my migration path in one of my first posts on this blog here and discussed my reasons for abandoning ACDSee Pro here. That was a disaster and I moved to Lightroom 2. I was pushing its limits and I made the mistake of forsaking it for ACDSee Pro. I used it as my photo database (Digital Asset Management – DAM to the hi-so) for years. I discussed their long Beta process (8 releases) here. They must have been working over the Christmas / New Year break to release it. I received the official email notification from Cerious Software this morning.

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