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Can you find your digital photographs when you need them, or do you spend more time rifling through your hard drive and file cabinets than you’d like? Do you have a system for assigning and tracking content data on your photos? If you make a living as a photographer, do your images bear your copyright and contact information, or do they circulate in the marketplace unprotected?
As professional photographer and author Peter Krogh sees it, “your DAM system is fundamental to the way your images are known, both to you and to everyone else.” DAM, or Digital Asset Management, in the world of digital photography refers to every part of the process that follows the taking of the picture, through final output and permanent storage. Anyone who shoots, scans or stores digital photographs, is practicing some form of digital asset management. Unfortunately, most of us don’t yet know how to manage our files (and our time) very systematically, or efficiently.
In The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers, Krogh brings clarity to the often overwhelming task of managing digital photographs, with a solid plan and practical advice for fellow photographers on how to file, find, protect and re-use photographs. Following a thorough overview of the DAM system and de-mystifications of metadata and digital archiving, Krogh focuses on best practices for digital photographers using Adobe Photoshop CS2. He explains how to use Adobe Bridge, the new CS2 navigational software that replaces the File Browser introduced in Photoshop 7, with full details on integrating Bridge, Camera Raw and Digital Asset Management software.
Compellingly presented in four-color format, The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers brings Krogh’s award-winning creative approach to a subject that could have been technically intimidating. Instead, Krogh’s twenty years of experience and instructive visual storytelling make this material not only accessible, but compulsory reading for serious digital photographers.
This book is meant for the Professional photographer who owes it to their clients to deliver, organize and archive digital files.
If overkill to you is being able to find and access all of your digital files, then continue being the amatuer that you are.
Peter Krogh “wrote the book” on Digital Asset Management.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
There are still no real standards for handling large libraries of images. And as digital photography is exploding so are the number of images the average person needs to handle. This book gives the readers a lot of ideas and practical advice for how to manage their every growing libraries. If digital photography is your thing then this is definitely worth a look.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
I have read the DAM book and I found it a very good resource for every serious photographer. The many tips and considerations in the book are useful for every day practice and it is great that the author bundled them in his DAM book so we can now all benefit from them; me as an amateur photographer included.
The book uses iView in its examples which is a product I don’t use myself. Nevertheless it is easy to match the procedures as outlined in the book to idImager’s feature set.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
This book is extreamly useful and a MUST for all photographers shooting digital RAW files. One of the few computer books that I simply could not stop reading.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
Even if like me, you’re not shooting gigs of digital images a year, the Krogh book is a must read. I’m no longer a pro shooter but I do need a handle on effective archiving schemes for my images. Peter does an excellent job of explaining his system that allows users to archive, organize and FIND your images. Well though out system that makes sense. While I’m no longer a working Pro shooter, I still have associations with pro’s I went to photo school with (years before digital) or folks I work with and I recommend they pick up this book and read it cover to cover.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5