The DAM book digital asset management for photographers
Can you find your digital photographs when you need them, or do you spend more time rifling through your hard drive and file cabinets than you'd like? Do you have a system for assigning and tracking content data on your photos? If you make a living as a photographer, do your images bear your...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Beijing ; Sebastopol, California :
O'Reilly
2005.
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| Edición: | First edition |
| Colección: | O'Reilly digital studio
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627181306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Introduction; Who Is This Book Written For?; My Assumptions About You; Contents of This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Comments and Questions; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: What Is All This DAM Stuff?; It's Like Color Management, Only Different; Help Is Here; Do I Really Have to Do That?; What Is Digital Asset Management?; An Overview of the DAM System; Rules of Sound Digital Asset Management; Understanding Digital Asset Management Software; Digital Asset Management Terminology; Browsers versus cataloging software; Adobe Bridge; Communication between DAM applications
- Benefits of the DNG Format and Digital Asset Management of RAW FilesWhat's a RAW File?; The Benefits and Drawbacks of Shooting RAW; DNG as a Workflow and Archiving Solution; A digital job jacket; Drawbacks of DNG; DNG as an archival storage format; The Benefits of Sound Digital Asset Management; Sound DAM Aids Productivity; Proper DAM Adds Value to Your Photographs; Sometimes the client is you; Effective DAM Enhances the Longevity of Your Work; DAM Prepares You for a Future of Profitable Professional Photography; The licensing model; DAM help for your clients; Photographers must lead the way
- DAM Will Allow You to Roll with the Technological ChangesStorage media; Operating system; File format; Chapter 2: Metadata; Types of Metadata; Metadata Type 1: Automatically Generated; File properties; EXIF; Metadata Type 2: Bulk Entry Data; Metadata Type 3: Higher Metadata; Applying Ratings, Keywords, and Groupings; Tagging Images for Quality: The Ratings Pyramid; Setting up your ratings system; Getting the proportions right; Assigning Keywords; What's a keyword?; Controlled vocabulary; Advanced Grouping: Making Virtual Sets; Storing Metadata; Private Metadata; Embedded Metadata
- Embedded metadata and RAW file formatsNew capabilities of IPTC data; Backward compatibility; Chapter 3: Creating the Digital Archive Part 1: The Information Structure; The Archive: An Overview; Similarities Between Film and Digital Archives; Structural Differences Between Film and Digital Archives; Physical assets require a physical filing structure; Metadata can be used to organize digital files; Take the plunge; Information Structure; Consistent Information Structure Is Your Friend; Designing a Unified Information Structure; Segregating Original and Derivative Files
- Directory Structure: Enter the Bucket BrigadeDon't Organize Your Directory Structure Around Content; The Bucket System; Making buckets; Determining the bucket size; Naming the buckets; Combining Buckets; The Fine Art of File Naming; Renaming Original Files; Special Naming Considerations for JPEGs; Appending Filenames for Derivative Files; When to Change Filenames; Chapter 4: Creating the Digital Archive Part 2: Hardware Configurations; My Rig; Location Hardware; In the Studio; Choosing a Storage Medium; Keeping It Live and Local; Balancing Cost and Performance; Establishing a File Server
- Drive Configurations: JBOD, RAID, or NAS?
