Digital Asset Management Fro Dummies

Anyone who shoots, scans, or stores digital photographs is practicing some form of digital asset management. However, many people don't yet know how to manage their files (and their time) efficiently. In these tutorials, Peter Krogh, author of The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers, presents his proven RAW workflows in depth. Peter teaches the steps for end-to-end management of RAW files, including editing, file conversion, adding metadata, client feedback, backup, archiving, and more. This video training incorporates two different workflows – one for managing images shot in variable lighting conditions, and another for managing images shot in controlled studio lighting.

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.

Digital Asset Management: Content Architectures, Project Management, and Creating Order out of Media Chaos is for those who are planning a digital asset management system or interested in becoming digital asset managers.

Digital Asset Management for Photographers -OReilly DAM Book

OReilly The DAM Book Digital Asset Management for Photographers


Paperback: 296 pages | Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; 1 edition (November 22, 2005)
Language: English | ISBN: 0596100183 | Format: CHM | Size: 8.1 MB

Content and media asset management systems are core back office applications of the modern day broadcaster, yet there is little information available on the control and management of these systems and how content can be delivered over a variety of different channels: television, iTV, internet, webcasting, mobile phones and wireless PDAs.