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The DAM Book
| Title | The DAM Book |
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| Date | 2025-07-05 18:30:53 |
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| Link | Listen Read |
Desciption
One of the main concerns for digital photographers today is asset management: how to file, find, protect, and re-use their photos. The best solutions can be found in The DAM Book, our bestselling guide to managing digital images efficiently and effectively. Anyone who shoots, scans, or stores digital photographs is practicing digital asset management (DAM), but few people do it in a way that makes sense. In this second edition, photographer Peter Krogh -- the leading expert on DAM -- provides new tools and techniques to help professionals, amateurs, and students:Understand the image file lifecycle: from shooting to editing, output, and permanent storage Learn new ways to use metadata and key words to track photo files Create a digital archive and name files clearly Determine a strategy for backing up and validating image data Learn a catalog workflow strategy, using Adobe Bridge, Camera Raw, Adobe Lightroom,
Review
If you take lots of digital photos, you pretty much need to read this book. It has chapters for setting up single computer storage solutions, how and when to make backups, multi-computer network solutions, and how to manage your collections in programs like Lightroom or Aperture. Because of this book, I changed my "star" rating system for photos, started to use keywords and captions, changed my on-disk format for photos, and speed up my overall work flow, and I'm just a hobbyist!If you are even a _slight_ computer geek and take photos as a hobby (or are venturing into professional photography) you would do yourself great harm by not reading this book. I know that is strongly worded, but it is true. Now when someone asks for "that photo of that kid in the blue shirt with a ball", I can find it in 25 seconds instead of the 45 minutes it used to.
