Book description
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, Microsoft Expression Media, and Photoshop CS4 together
- Migrate images from one file format to another, from one storage medium to another, and from film to digital
- Learn how to copyright images
To identify and protect your images in the marketplace, having a solid asset management system is essential. The DAM Book offers the best approach.
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Table of contents
- The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. A Digital Photography Ecosystem
- 2. Non-destructive Image Editing
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3. Metadata
- Metadata: An Introduction
- Classes of Metadata
- Ownership and Licensing Metadata
- Image Content Metadata
- Describing Images with Keywords
- Prioritizing Images with Ratings
- Grouping Images
- Metadata Schema
- Metadata Handling
- Tagging Images with GPS Data
- 4. Organizing and Naming Files and Folders
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5. Choosing Hardware for Image Storage
- Choosing the Appropriate Storage Media
- Hard Drive 101
- Purchasing a Hard Drive
- Hard Drive Handling
- Drive Configurations: JBOD, RAID, Drobo, or NAS?
- Other Storage Media
- Media Cards
- Network
- Monitors
- Uninterruptible Power Supplies
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System Configurations
- Basic System: Computer + Dedicated Image Drive + External Backup Drive + Optical Disk Backup
- Client/Server Configuration: Computer + Gigabit Ethernet Switch + Server + External Backup Drive + Optical Disk Backup
- Client/Server Configuration plus Location Laptop: Laptop + Workstation + Gigabit Ethernet Switch + Server + External Backup Drive + Optical Disk Backup
- Best Setup Without Regard to Cost: Computer + Fibre Channel + Rack-Mounted Server and RAID + LTO Tape Backup
- Sample Configuration: Laptop
- Sample Configuration: Workstation
- Sample Configuration: Server
- 6. Backing Up and Validating Data
- 7. Ingestion Workflow
- 8. Working Files Management
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9. Lightroom Workflow
- Lightroom Basics
- Setting Up Lightroom
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Sample Lightroom Workflow
- Start a Project Catalog
- Import and Generate Previews
- Finish Bulk Metadata
- Rate
- Label and Stack the Pano and HDR Sequences
- Adjust Images
- Develop Workflow
- Panorama Proof-Stitching
- Create Proofing Output
- Archive
- Permanent Cataloging
- Using Third-Party Catalog Software
- Reworking Archived Images
- Derivative Files
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10. Bridge/ACR Workflow
- Bridge/ACR and Expression Media: A Great Combination
- Setting Up Bridge and ACR
- Sample Bridge/ACR Workflow
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11. Cataloging Strategies
- Choosing Your Software
- Managing Your Catalogs
- Expression Media Basics
- Expression Media Workflow
- Archive Restoration and Validation
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12. Data Migration
- Data Migration Principles
- Migrating from One Drive to Another
- Migrating from One Metadata Field to Another
- Migrating File Names
- Converting Legacy Camera Originals to DNG
- Deduping
- Migrating Disorganized Digital Files to an Organized Archive Structure
- Migrating from Film to Digital
- A. About the Author
- Index
- About the Author
- Colophon
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: The DAM Book, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2009
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9780596523572
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