Mistake #1. Not using DAM Some people are put off DAM because it sounds boring or worse seems irrelevant to their photography. News Flash: DAM applies to everybody; pro photographer, designer, amateur, family snapper, videographer… If you create any digital content, be it pictures, Word documents, or invoices you need some sort of DAM. DAM … Read more
As part of our commitment to training DAMsimple are presenting a DAM Workflow seminar at L&P in Sydney on 17 March 2009. Download the registration form (280kb) to book your place now.
Google leaks signs of their Cloud Storage GDrive: “GDrive provides reliable storage for all of your files, including photos, music and documents. GDrive allows you to access your files from anywhere, anytime, and from any device – be it from your desktop, web browser or cellular phone.” From Google Operating System blog.
Google have released a beta of Picasa for Mac. Targeted at amateurs Picasa is a lightweight, well featured, free image editor and DAM application for Windows (and more recently Linux).
Top 10 DAM Mistakes has been published in the latest issue of Better Photoshop Techniques magazine.
A series of Lightroom 2 Workshops are being held in Australia kicking off in Queensland. AIPP are sponsoring the first workshop in Brisbane on 25 November 2008. Click here for more information.
DAM Sexified – Thanks Steve Jobs When Apple announced Aperture, their DAM and Raw conversion software, they made a huge impact on digital photography. For too long DAM was mostly presented in an ugly database interface. Aperture’s biggest influence is the Steve Jobs ‘black skivvy’ interface. As they did to mp3 players and mobile phones … Read more
While this is not news recently I’ve found network speed a real pain to deal with using image browsers. Even on a Gb network opening and zooming high megapixel RAW files is slow. Now I use catalog apps for a first look at images instead of an image browser. The catalog app (Expression Media 2.01, … Read more
Back up – Software Back ups are essential. Professionals need to ensure their digital assets are protected. Everyone wants to know their personal images, videos and documents are safe. Backing up involves a set of protocols; the what, when, where, how (the who and why are obvious), the media, hardware, and software. Today I want … Read more
Kodak aquires DAM Workflow solutions provider Design2Launch, a visual cataloger for CMS (Content Management System). Kodak calls it VAM; Visual Asset Management, yet another acronym for this sector! As an enterprise level solution Design2Launch doesn’t compete with single user applications like Microsoft Expression Media or Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.