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The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers
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.
What is all this DAM stuff
Metadata
Creating the digital archive
Setting up bridge
The editing workflow
Derivative files
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