The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers [Paperback]

One of the main (important) concerns for digital photographers today is asset (quality) management: how to file, find, protect, and re-use their photos. The best (prizewinning) solutions can (crapper) be found (institute) in The DAM Book, our bestselling guide (pass) to managing digital images efficiently (expeditiously) and effectively.

Anyone who shoots, scans, or stores digital photographs is practicing digital asset (quality) management (DAM), but few (some) people do it in a way (artefact) that makes sense. In this second (ordinal) edition, photographer (artist) Peter Krogh -- the leading (directive) expert on DAM -- provides new (newborn) tools and techniques to help (support) professionals, amateurs, and students:

Understand the image (ikon) file (enter) lifecycle: from shooting (actuation) to editing, output, and permanent (imperishable) storage

Learn new (newborn) ways to use (ingest) metadata and key words (text) to track (road) photo files

Create a digital archive (deposit) and name (study) files clearly

Determine a strategy for backing (championship) up and validating image (ikon) data

Learn a catalog (class) workflow strategy, using Adobe Bridge, Camera Raw, Adobe Lightroom, Microsoft Expression Media, and Photoshop CS4 together

Migrate images from one (digit) file (enter) format to another, from one (digit) storage medium (job) to another, and from film (flick) to digital

Learn how to copyright (papers) images

To identify (refer) and protect your images in the marketplace, having a solid (solidified) asset (quality) management system (grouping) is essential. The DAM Book offers the best (prizewinning) approach.

Product Details:
Paperback: 496 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 2 edition (April 27, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0596523572
ISBN-13: 978-0596523572
Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds