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The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers Paperback – 1 Nov. 2005

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    0596100183
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    978-0596100186
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    O′Reilly
  5. Publication date
    1 Nov. 2005
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    20.32 x 1.55 x 24.77 cm
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In the world of digital photography, Digital Asset Management (DAM) 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 DAM, but most of us are not doing so systematically or efficiently. In The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers, photographer Peter Krogh presents a solid plan and practical advice on how to file, find, protect and re-use photographs, focusing on best practices for digital photographers using Adobe Photoshop CS2.

About the Author

Photographer Peter Krogh brings a creative, award-winning approach to technically challenging and visually compelling photographic storytelling. Working with all formats of equipment, from digital photography, to large format film cameras, to complex location lighting assignments, Peter brings twenty years experience, a fresh approach, and a bold eye to his projects. He owns and maintains DigitalPhotographyStandards.com.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ O′Reilly; 1st edition (1 Nov. 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 281 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0596100183
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0596100186
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 20.32 x 1.55 x 24.77 cm
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Welcome to my Amazon author page!

We are proud to announce that The DAM Book 3.0 has been released in electronic form (paper copy to follow soon). The third edition updates the classic management landscape, and adds a lot of material about connectivity, web services, mobile workflow and more.

The workflow sections of The DAM Book have been moved off to our multimedia publications. Each of these Workflow Guides tackles a different subject with a mix of text and video content. There are books about organizing your images with lightroom, using your camera as a scanner, and multi-user/multi-catalog workflow with Lightroom.

Make sure to check out my blog (over on the right side of the page) to see where I'll be speaking, what I'm publishing, and other items of interest.

Saving the world, one photo at a time,

Peter

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  • Spectric
    5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best books on this subject I have read
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 December 2016
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    One of the best books on this subject I have read, good as an introduction and helpful to those like me who have worked in IT and software but gives it a photographic approach.
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  • J J Zaluski
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 January 2013
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    A great book for any serious photographer in todays world. A fantastic guideline to help any budding pro to organise workflow and at a great price
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  • Olaf Willoughby
    5.0 out of 5 stars What a great book!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 February 2006
    I bought this to learn how to integrate CS2 and iView Media Pro and ended up learning so much more. Peter's writing style is concise and clear, the diagrams are very helpful and it is all underpinned by solid concepts. Targeted at knowledgeable amateurs and professionals this is a quality piece of work! Thanks Peter.
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  • Digital-Finger
    2.0 out of 5 stars Great for those that want to work this way
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 January 2012
    Great for those that want to work this way but I dont. Too long winded - Im a photographer not a librarian.

    Minimal keywording and smart collections in Adobe Lightroom are the way to go for me
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  • G. M. Matthews
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very informative and thought provoking
    Reviewed in the United States on 1 March 2007
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    I've been struggling with digital workflow, more storage and management than post-processing, for a long time. I take a lot of digital images, and so this is always an in-my-face problem. This book provided good ideas and a fully working example of a process that works. Is it perfect, meaning did I use the author's process w/o change? No. But his thinking gave me the solid foundation to finish developing my own ideas and actually put in place an effective storage and management workflow. Partly, the world is changing, with for instance the introduction of Adobe Lightroom since this was published. That product and Apple Aperture both fill the void somewhat differently than the Bridge/ACR/Photoshop/iView based workflow outlined in the DAM book. Also, since publication, iView has been purchased by Microsoft and the effects that will have are still unknown. But tools will always change. At least this book outlines what you need to consider else you get mired down and possibly worse, lose photos because you don't have adequate safeguards in your process.

    Does Lightroom replace this workflow? No. The author doesn't think so, and neither do I. But I am using Lightroom for the initial import phase, and like it better than Bridge by a lot. Also, I don't use iView, as I was already using iMatch, which fills the same void, about as well as iView. iMatch is a little bit rougher around the edges, is MS Windows only, and probably a bit slower as a browser, but it has great functionality as a cataloging application. Just to point out, there are a few other tools that fill the same voids as those the author uses.

    This book also fully covers the RAW image manipulation part of the workflow. I was more in tune with that part already, but still learned a lot from the book.

    If you even remotely think you need this book, you do. You owe it to yourself to read it. And if you don't want to think about it, you can even today adopt the authors process completely and get up to speed quickly, and have an effective and efficient process within a few days (if you own the required products). That's probably the best way to use the book. Just do what he says. Then, as you use the workflow day to day, you'll find the areas you might want to change and you can do that. But in the meantime, you'll be adding value to your collection and spending a lot less time in the process while you're making those decisions.
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  • David Wilson
    4.0 out of 5 stars good ideas, but specifics are dated
    Reviewed in the United States on 23 April 2008
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    Overall, this is a good book that thoroughly covers all the essentials of putting together a system and practices to organize and preserve your photo collection.

    On the hardware side, he shows excessively expensive harddrive setups, when 2TB Western Digital MyBooks are dropping under $500. (Such statements are always relative to the date they're made -- 18 months from now that might be 4TB for $400.) I do agree with some comments he makes about RAID not being such a hot idea. The increasing size of individual drives is making the time it takes to reconstruct a failed drive in a RAID configuration reach absurd levels. When it took five or more drives to assemble 1TB, RAID seemed pretty clever. It's time has passed.

    On the software side, he pushes Bridge plus iView MediaPro. That may have been the hot setup when the book was published, but Lightroom is gaining converts at a high rate. A 2nd edition revised to center on Lightroom would be good. At the very least, he'd need to explain exactly what Bridge + iView MediaPro can do that Lightroom can't and why it matters. I believe Lightroom alone offers a much less convoluted system then that combination.

    Finally, for a book whose entire point is organizing and preserving photos, it has a curious hole. If your photo archive is all of your family's pictures, as opposed to a wedding photography business, how do you ensure it will outlive you? He makes a few remarks about how having things well organized will make it easier for your family, but that's it. Thinking about such things proves I'm getting to be an old fart, but it strikes me as a major omission in a book on this subject.

    My criticisms shouldn't detract from my original statement -- it's overall a good book. Even if I don't follow his exact hardware and software recommendations, he made me think through whether my combination was completely sound. I've changed how I was doing some things, and changed some of my ideas about what I plan to do in the future, as a result. It's the best and most thorough book on the subject available to date.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific material, very well written
    Reviewed in the United States on 26 March 2006
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    I really liked the book, and not only for its content. It's one of the few advanced books I've ever read that explains a difficult subject in an interesting, enjoyable way while still respecting the reader's intelligence. And, I say that having tried to do the same thing myself (my own books are here on Amazon, too), but Krogh does it better.

    I especially appreciated that he skipped all the boring introductory stuff that he was smart enough to know his readers already knew, and jumped right into the meat. In fact, the book is all meat.

    Krogh's focus is on the busy pro who needs to work efficiently day-to-day and who also want to maximize the value of his or her stock photos. Krogh shoots more pictures in an hour than I do in a month, and nobody except my children's grandparents wants any of my "stock" photos, but I benefitted enourmously from his workflow nonetheless.
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  • Andrew D. Rodney
    5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for any digital photographer
    Reviewed in the United States on 19 May 2006
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    Even if like me, you're not shooting gigs of digital images a year, the Krogh book is a must read. I'm no longer a pro shooter but I do need a handle on effective archiving schemes for my images. Peter does an excellent job of explaining his system that allows users to archive, organize and FIND your images. Well though out system that makes sense. While I'm no longer a working Pro shooter, I still have associations with pro's I went to photo school with (years before digital) or folks I work with and I recommend they pick up this book and read it cover to cover.
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  • H. Domke
    3.0 out of 5 stars Despite author's OCD this book helps one devise Cataloging Method
    Reviewed in the United States on 12 February 2006
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    Krough has written a book that deals with a need that many photographers have ignored as they have made the transition from film to digital. How do you keep track of all those thousands of files?

    The most important contributions of this book are it's clear explanation of the big picture of the cataloging process. He suggests developing a systematic way to name, store, and archive each file.

    He answers important questions such as: How does Browsing software (like Bridge) differ from cataloging software (like iView MediaPro). Where in the work flow should metadata be added. Why convert all your RAW files to DNG? What are all those confusing IPTC panels used for?

    I suspect he suffers from an Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder. Instead of being satisfied with a 5-star rating system, he pulls in color labels to pull out the nuances of images that are in some way flawed. This is simply overkill for those of us that need to be out taking pictures. If one fully embraced his meticulous file management practices, there would be no time to shoot pictures.

    His naming system is baffling to me. He proposes naming all of the files with names like: "Krough_010501-1234.dng". Personally for me using some descriptive language that others may be able to understand is useful, so my naming convention would be: "Tiger "Swallowtail_1234.dng"

    Hardware for storage is discussed at some length and is quite helpful. I do disagree with his statement that " buying expensive RAID setups for archive files doesn't make sense for most photographers." In the past I used his proposed method of multiple external hard drives, but two years ago, after I had two LaCie hard drives fail, I made the jump to Apple's Xserve RAID. Now my data is fully backed up at all times. It has performed flawlessly and does not have to be much more expensive than multiple hard drives.

    He is enamored of using Scripts with Bridge. Most users (including me) find Scrips confusing and simply ignore them. However, his descriptions are clear and I'm tempted to try them.

    Despite the negative comments I do recommend this book. Nowhere else have I seen these topics covered in such detail. For Professional or serious amateur photographers, keeping track of your files is a growing problem. This book shows you how to structure your images so that in the future you can find that needle in the haystack.
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