![]() ![]() I definitely don’t want: image editing capabilities in the DAM. presentation, slide-show, contact sheet, or web-gallery-type functionalities support for hierarchical keywords (I use that as a tool separate from the DAM when choosing which keywords to apply, but find it too rigid to have it integrated in the DAM itself.) For raw files: what shoot the image is from (I do not embed metadata in raw files).What the status is of an image with an agency: not submitted, submitted, accepted, rejected….To keep track of where in my workflow an image is: not started, processing, done… or where in the my kewywording process it is.For the (non-standard) three levels of description that Alamy (a stock agency) requires.This is both for speed and security reasons.Ĭustom Fields are important. DAM FUNCTIONALITIES: Dom Ruinart writing in a book with a bird quill feather pen at Champagne Ruinartġ - Must: keywording and captioning (“description”) – this is the key to the whole application!ģ - Must: possibility to create “custom fields”.Ĥ - Must: possibility to create “virtual galleries” or “temporary sets” (what is called “categories” in Portfolio)ĥ - Must: virtual galleries can be hierarchicalĦ - Nice to Have: “Folder watching” – the app can detect changes on monitored foldersħ - Must: possibility to apply keywords and captioning to multiple files at the same timeĨ - Must: possibility to append data (as opposed to overwrite) to captioning (“description”) fieldĩ – Must: it is a cataloguing application, with a database, not just a file browser (not even a pimped-up and glorified file browser). – Files stored on a network (NAS) file server, so the sw needs to be able to work over a network. (Currently split on two RAW/originals catalogues and one Develops catalogue in Portfolio) Capability for video files would be a plus but not absolutely necessary. – Archiving of raw files (Canon cr2 mainly) and tiffs. – Stand-alone desktop application on Windows (I don’t want to rely on a sometimes not perfect internet connection) ![]() – Single user = I’m an independent photographer. My requirements of a Digital Asset Management software solution:
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