I have way too many digital images with no real cataloging set up. Any suggestions/warnings/etc on Digital Asset Management software you have experience with? Right now I'm leaning toward IDImager.
[quote name='warprints' date='04 June 2010 - 04:59 PM' timestamp='1275663548' post='204']
I have way too many digital images with no real cataloging set up. Any suggestions/warnings/etc on Digital Asset Management software you have experience with? Right now I'm leaning toward IDImager.
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I've used KPhotoAlbum, which has a few nice features, but on the whole I'm much more happy with Lightroom. Of course, it depends a lot on what your needs and budget are.
-Lars
I'd also suggest Lightroom. At this stage I'd wait for v3 - it should be available fairly soon.
You may simply try the free Beta.
Thanks for the replies. I have been using lightroom (and have LR3 Beta 2 on one computer) to process photos, but the cataloging is just not as powerful as I'd like (I was cataloging using Lightroom, until a recent serious computer problem - all photos were safely backed up, but the lightroom catalogue was messed up). Will report back on my thought about IDImager.
[quote name='warprints' date='04 June 2010 - 10:27 PM' timestamp='1275683233' post='221']
Thanks for the replies. I have been using lightroom (and have LR3 Beta 2 on one computer) to process photos, but the cataloging is just not as powerful as I'd like (I was cataloging using Lightroom, until a recent serious computer problem - all photos were safely backed up, but the lightroom catalogue was messed up). Will report back on my thought about IDImager.
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I'm very curious to hear what IDImager does beyond LightRoom. Between collections and keywords, I don't feel there's anything missing, but that may just be a case of "don't know it till you see it". It has taken me a while to figure out the sneaky things collections can actually do.
-Lars
Harald Brauer
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One of my colleagues uses ACDsee which he really loves. Unfortunately I cannot say much about it since I only used it on his Mac for a little bit, but it is very responsive - more responsive than Adobe Bridge CS4 <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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[quote name='warprints' date='04 June 2010 - 03:59 PM' timestamp='1275663548' post='204']
I have way too many digital images with no real cataloging set up. Any suggestions/warnings/etc on Digital Asset Management software you have experience with? Right now I'm leaning toward IDImager.
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I find iMatch by Phototools excellent for DAM...
I use ACDSee Pro. Fast, stable, folder based (no catalogs), highly customizable, capable to mass swap info between its own info database and EXIF or IPTC (and vice versa) in a very quick and comfortable way. Yes, it's also a RAW converter, but forget about that <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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regards
Vitantonio Dell'Orto
www.exuviaphoto.com
www.sarnavandrarhem.com
scottburgess
Unregistered
Does anyone use the same system for both film and digital images? I have the Norton Slide Caption System for my film DB, and would like to convert to a single film/digital DB system, but absolutely need to have the slide labeling capabilities...
Scott
I follow the rule.
"Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop"
To be honest in my best years I have made 3 really good images. The rest are sketches exercises or just family snaphots.
