Databasing photos
by MonkeyBoy
on
Oct 10, 2006 at 8:05:07 pm
Hi all,
I've been assigned the lovely task of trying to co-rodinate our company's growing database of photos and images. This is a bigger task than what I first thought as not onl are things scattered all over 6or so different (users) computers but there are multiple copies in multiple locations because images are sued for various projects.
My goal is two-fold:
to find an effective system or program that can effectively help us keep these images organized
and
to minimize the duplication of images in our various systems. The problem I forsee here is that to put together, say, a brochure in InDesign it would be difficult to use images if they were linked over the network (wouldn't it lag for large-scale images) so I cna't see a way around this other than copying the image to the user's HD...then we start piling up our images again...
I've briefly looked into programs like Portfolio, iView MediaPro, Canto's Cumulus 7, and DAM services from Corbis...but I'm not sold on anything yet.
We are a farily small-sezd company; 15 people, ok we ARE small - so I'm looking for something economical as well. While we want to save coin there's no point in us beaking the bank over this one
Re: Databasing photos by tony salgado on Oct 19, 2006 at 4:41:34 pm
Run out and purchase Aperture from Apple for $299. In addition you can use it to color correct images etc. Great lightbox display.
Best used with a Cinema display.
Great application for building a database and consolidating the images into one area or "Vault" as Apple call's it.
Go to Apple.com and view the demo on Aperture. They also have web seminars which give more in depth information. Do a search at the Apple website for the links.
Re: Databasing photos by maxrez on Nov 25, 2006 at 5:45:42 pm
MB,
Take a look at Abode Bridge. You might already own Photoshop. It allow you metadata to organize media assets and preview them with the ease of using keywords that you determine. Check it out.
