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This is the new face of Thumbscrew

Many users sent me feature requests that were jaw-droppingly obvious, so I added them. Users wanted:

• Preferences to keep your settings between sessions

• An alternate place to save thumbnails

• Better feedback when images were dropped

• Folders supported in addition to a group of images (for instance, you can now drag in Albums from iPhoto)

• Alternate thumbnail formats

• Speed! Thumbscrew now uses CoreGraphics (Quartz) for its thumbnail processing, and threads for a responsive UI, and the results are outstanding:

  • Processing thumbnails is now over 10x faster than before

  • Gamma is preserved (meaning no more dark thumbnails - PIL on the left, and CoreGraphics on the right)

In addition to these improvements, I’ve added two new features that I think will provide a lot of value:

• Rescale the original image (and save it to another location)

• Generate a Web Page of the thumbnails created (in either HTML or reStructuredText)

It’s not yet ready for general release, but I wanted to let people know I’ve been listening to the feedback I’m getting. It will remain free for everything it currently does (plus the extra thumbnailing features), but I’m planning on charging a small fee to unlock the new features.