![]() ![]() So, how to select DAM software? I’ve recently been through the process myself and, even if you disagree with my final choice (yes, I have made one), my concerns and experience may be of interest.įinding the holy Grail of the perfect DAM The altar in the cathedral in Logrono, Spain, copyright BKWine Photography PreconditionsĪs the DAM market has been consolidating over the past few years, one key concern was that I didn’t want to be stranded if my software was abandoned, or if the license model changes to a subscription model. I’ll not detail all the benefits here, but if, like me, you want to be able to easily view or retrieve particular images from among thousands, it’s an indispensable tool. Please respond to the DAM poll here: “ Which DAM do you use?“ĭigital Asset Management – otherwise known as DAM – isn’t the most glamorous topic in photography. A big THANK YOU to Mike for sharing this extremely interesting story! You can find more info on Mike at the end of the article. This is a guest article where Mike Briggs, of Mike Briggs Photography, explains how he found what was best for him. ![]() Here’s the story on how he selected his best DAM.Įvery photographer will have different requirements on a DAM so which one is “best for you” is not necessarily “best for me”. ![]() Soon he narrowed the selection down to three candidates: digiKam, Photo Supreme, and Daminion. He started looking at a very broad range of DAMs. Mike needed to select a new DAM, digital asset management system, to manage his collection of 100,000+ images. Mike Briggs is a London based photographer with a particular interest in travel photography, reportage and street photography. There are many DAM applications for you to choose from.Digital Asset Management software selection I don't add bloat or marketing features to tick off some boxes in a list. I learn from the my users via the user community and meetings in person - and then develop IMatch accordingly. I don't waste my time developing stuff nobody wants or needs I'm in daily contact with the IMatch user base, and from the comments in the community and telemetry I know that the face recognition and related people features are very well received and used. This user may benefit from automatic AI-based keywording and organization of his files though - especially when he starts with DAM and has 200,000 mostly untagged and uncaptioned photos to deal with. Or people maintaining large family photo archives. A photographer who does mostly landscape or nature photography has less need for face-recognition than wedding, sport or portrait photographers. Just my 2 cents: different users have different needs. I just had an idle curiosity, I'm a bit of a software geek. I'm pretty happy with my ACDSee Ultimate which includes all the features of ACDSee Home plus raw development and an excellent layers and 8bf plugin capable bitmapped editor. I am not inclined to try it out a third time. I tried twice to get an download authorization email so I could try it out and no joy either time. offering users real, economical and so called "Lite" choices. Daminion also offers several price levels from $49 USD -$79-$99.ĪCDSee as pointed out is a much better price than PSU or say iMatch, which also may not offer non Ai or no Farce Detection versions.Īll listed are IME excellent DAM software, but are all becoming bloated with AI features few people really need but seem like "must have features" that keep the prices / profits high, vs. ![]() Daminion stand alone is not easy to find on their website but a Google search will find it and it's up to date but it too may have the flawed AI and Farce Detection bloat. There is no PSU version without those useless to me features, as I don't photograph many "faces", which IMO would be a lite version.ĭaminion stand alone version offers a "free" use to catalog up to15,000 images, which is 3x better than this PSU Crippled version. That's too expensive for me and I don't need the imperfect and bloated Ai or Farce detection code either. So less user control options.Īlso at the bottom left of the main window was a fairly large permanent ad to buy the single user version at $129 USD. Plus the PSU Lite installed database could not be installed where I wanted it and after, another or different catalog could not also be created. The catalog will add more and image previews could add another 5-10 GBs for large previews of some RAW files types for those 5,000 images. Installed to W10 it installs to 250+ MBs plus before any images are cataloged or previews are built. This PSU DAM version isn't "Lite", it's CRIPPLED. ![]()
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