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The State Of The DAM 2 — Adobe Lightroom

Screenshot of Adobe Lightroom 2

Adobe Light­room 2

In my pre­vi­ous post on Dig­i­tal Asset Man­age­ment, I briefly out­lined some of the entry level con­tenders for DAM soft­ware such as Google Picasa and Adobe Pho­to­shop Ele­ments. In the rest of this series, I will look at some of the heavy weights, the pro­fes­sional asset man­age­ment sys­tems. I will start with the one I use most —  Adobe Light­room. Not sure if this is a good idea as I it is the prod­uct that I am most inti­mate with, know­ing its strengths and weak­nesses. Let’s get started…

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The State Of The DAM, Part 1

A collage showing so many photos...

So Many Photos…

Ok, I am a geek. I love good soft­ware, and I am always chas­ing the next “Big Thing”. In pho­tog­ra­phy, the “Big Thing” over the last few years has been Dig­i­tal Asset Man­age­ment soft­ware. With the announce­ment from Apple of Aper­ture 3, and the impend­ing arrival of Adobe Light­room 3, I felt its about time that I updated my pre­vi­ous post on soft­ware for Pho­tog­ra­phers. So below I out­line my views on some of the lead­ing con­tenders, includ­ing Google Picasa, Apple iPhoto, and Adobe Pho­to­shop Ele­ments. In part 2, I will cover the more pro­fes­sional ori­en­tated offer­ings (at least in price) such as Apple Aper­ture, Adobe Light­room, and some more exotic candidates.

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Software for Beginner, Improver, and Advanced Photographers

Which Photo Software? What photo software you need, when, and why...

Which Photo Soft­ware? What photo soft­ware you need, when, and why…

I recently dis­cussed the must haves / don’t needs of buy­ing a dig­i­tal cam­era, depend­ing on the stage of your pho­tog­ra­phy obses­sion :-) . I would imag­ine that most of the time photo’s come straight out of the cam­era and onto paper, if at all. If you want to take your photo’s that lit­tle bit fur­ther, here are some soft­ware tools which can smooth the way…

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