Comments on: Keywording and DAM or is it DAM Keywording

By: kevin

kevin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:55:23 +0000

Hi Clint,

The folks at Camera Bits keep on talking about making a DAM available but so far nothing has turned up. I’m really hoping something comes of this as I expect it would be well thought out and work well with the present version of Photo Mechanic that I’m using for labelling.

I’m convinced there could be an almost perfect program but certainly no one has come close yet!

By: Clint

Clint — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:32:44 +0000

Thanks allot I seem to be going over these DAM programs constantly and having a somewhat bad experience. I tried Iview and having MS owns its worthless for large catalogs, I tried Portfolio but couldn’t get the hang of it, I been waiting for their 2009 version that I have heard was to come out in July. Thanks, CC

By: Kevin Oke Photography » Cemeteries, graveyards, mauseoleums, shrines, whatever you want to call them

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:50:37 +0000

[...] of the strange computer habits I have is opening up my DAM (what’s a DAM you might ask!) and clicking randomly on one of the many keywords that I have available. I did this last week on [...]

By: kevin

kevin — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:58:28 +0000

One item to note about Portfolio which I mentioned in this article, you cannot embed data into RAW images which is very unfortunate and if I were looking at a DAM now I might consider something else.

I went with Portfolio before I was shooting RAW. Now I might look elsewhere although the system I use now works very well.

By: D. Travis North

D. Travis North — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:41:59 +0000

Good article…always good to hear a real person’s thoughts on the available solutions. At this point, I am on the fence between Extensis and Lightroom, though I’m really sure either would fully support my needs (Downloading free demos as we speak).

R. Neil – thanks for that link, I’ll be checking that out.

By: kevin

kevin — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:52:05 +0000

Thanks for your response.

I have frequented the DAM forum on Peter Krogh’s site quite a bit. There’s lots of excellent material available there. I keep on looking at many of these programs and keep thinking that most of them could be better but maybe this is more of a “different photographers have different needs” situation.

I do know that if PhotoMechanic were to bring out a DAM program that worked closely with their present program there would be potential.