The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/fttklr on 2024-08-25 04:40:29.
Looking for something to update my ancient software... I have been using this software called Thumbsplus for ages, but now it is old and the company died; so I am looking for something else that does the same basically.
The main thing is that I don't want subscription based stuff or cloud based stuff; it needs to be running on my computer offline and I want to buy it and be done with it; until I need a new version.
What I use it the most is for 4 different tasks
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catalog and view images and videos (not to watch movies or as media viewers, but to get an idea of what a videos is all about for example). So something like acdsee or FSViewer works too for that, although it should support almost all file formats and codecs either directly in the app or should be able to launch those files in the appropriate player on my computer.
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run a search to find duplicates and mange large sets. I take a ton of photos and many times it end up with hundreds of images that I need to review, so I open them side by side to review and delete what I don't want to keep; but then I stop mid-way and start all over after months and have to reconcile what I already checked and what I didn't; so I need to de-dupe each set. So far beside Ligthroom I didn't find many apps that are able to find duplicates or similar images with a good degree of accuracy.
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decent minimalist editing features, in particular denoise and zoom/resize. As new apps use AI filters, would be nice to get an app that does resize and renoise of images that are small for today standards (like pictures I took with my 5MP camera 20 years ago); and scale them up and clean them up.
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able to create things like web catalogues in html from a folder; so I can export that as stand alone for a slideshow or portfolio for example.
Any photographer or similar that use these kind of software, that could suggest something that is fitting in these parameters?