Extensis‘ web site says “We call it digital asset managment.” Funny, I call it dumbass design.
I’m really sick of using Adobe’s latest dumbed down version of Photoshop Album, so I downloaded Extensis Portfolio 7 to evaluate it. The program is great — it has a much better interface for cataloging photographs (which is what I’d be using it for mostly) and I like the ability to embed keyword and other metadata in my digital pictures, which is one of the major features missing from Photoshop Album.
But along with all this power, Extensis Portfolio has one of the dumbest “features” I’ve ever seen. Like many other such programs, you can double click on a picture (or video or whatever) to edit it. But you can’t tell Portfolio to open pictures in Photoshop or whatever editor you’d prefer to use. The manual actually claims that the software guesses which program it should open, though on my machine it appears to simply open a photo in the default application I’ve set for viewing such files (which is not an editing program).
Stupid, stupid, stupid. I can’t believe a $200 program can’t include a simple preference to let me choose which program I’d like to use to edit JPEG files when I double-click on them.