I also used to use iview media pro for photo management, then switched to lightroom. Lightroom is a digital asset management dam tool you can use it to organize and search your photos, as well as process them. Content architectures, project management, and creating order out of media chaos. Besides having an excellent book, it still follows a series of videos that complement the teachings. It is a textbook, a workshop, and a seminar all rolled into one. Drawing on the principles used by museums and institutions, the book presents a method that is within reach of millions of photographers. Mastering lightroom organization with peter krogh youtube. Nov 15, 2005 great book if like me you are just starting with a dam system like lightroom and wish to start off the right way. Scott is the president of kelbyone, an online educational community for photographers, photoshop and lightroom users.
The dam book library peter kroghs new release, the dam book 3. Published by his own dam useful publishing company it is 208 pages long but more notably contains 7 hours of supporting video content. The ebook integrates text, screenshots, animated flowcharts and workflow videos. Enter photographers guide to the digital lifecycle. It wont teach you how to postprocess your photos in lightroom. If youre starting to use a program like lightroom then read this book, youll appreciate the knowledge you gain and it will save you a lot of grief down the line. Organizing your photos with lightroom 5 half price through the end of april. The dam book guide to organizing your photos with lightroom 5 book.
On todays episode, we welcome katrin eismann and peter krogh to our studio and, with a chance to speak to the photoshop diva and the man who wrote the dam book, you count your lucky. Digital asset management for photographers digital asset management. It is created by author peter krogh and provides readers with a variety of methods and techniques about properly handling a multicatalog workflow in adobes lightroom 5 software. The dam book guide to organizing your photos with lightroom 5 by peter krogh is a followup to the dam book, digital asset management for photographers. Almost all of the techniques outlined in this book are unchanged in the newer versions of lightroom. Apr 27, 2009 the best solutions can be found in the dam book, our bestselling guide to managing digital images efficiently and effectively. The adobe photoshop lightroom cc book for digital photographers.
The dam book guide to multicatalog workflow for lightroom. Since you are familiar with this original dam book you will appreciate his clear complete discussion of the topics. Digitizing your photos with your camera and lightroom half price until april 10. The dam book guide to multicatalog workflow with lightroom 5 is a different kind of book. Peter krogh wrote the dam book almost 10 years ago and it quickly became the goto guide to. Pdf download the dam book digital asset management for. Hes editor and publisher of photoshop user magazine, editor of lightroom magazine. In this webinar peter krogh will cover topics from his newest book, the second edition of the dam book guide to organizing your photos with lightroom 5, focusing on how to maximize your use of. Organizing your photos with lightroom 5 is a multimedia book that presents a. In this chapter we selection from the dam book, 2nd edition book. You now also get 5 free luminar presets to use in luminar by macphun. Digitizing your photos with your camera and lightroom dam.
Why every photographer should give a dam fstoppers. The lightroom catalog is a database containing all the relevant information that lightroom needs about your photos in order to process your images and sit at the centre of your workflow. Organizing your photos with lightroom 5 photography blog. Hi all, ive recently bought a sony a7 iii and am starting fresh with managing photos and workflow and want to get the best setup i can.
Items not covered in this book are mostly limited to lightroom mobile and lightroom web. The dam book guide to organizing your photos with lightroom 5 featuring multimedia ebook, tips for organizing. As a result, peters written a new book organizing your photos for lightroom 5 which focuses on the practicalities of digital asset management using lightroom. The first product was the 2009 version of the dam book, delivered in electronic form.
Anyone who shoots, scans, or stores digital photographs is practicing digital asset management dam, but. The framework for managing this data must go beyond digital asset management dam to the holistic data lifecycle perspective. Lightroom alternatives in 2020 david coleman photography. I will keep the lightroom catalog on the local drive. It was created by author peter krogh and offers a variety of tips and techniques for organizing your photographs using adobes lightroom 5 software.
Digitizing your photos with your camera and lightroom. I follow the work of peter and the internet since the launch of his first book dam book, digital asset management. Imatch is so much more flexible and comprehensive than lightroom as a dam solution. The dam book guide to multicatalog workflow for lightroom 5. In this talk i show how you can use lightroom and the anyvision plugin to run a collection of images through a machine learning tagging. One of the main concerns for digital photographers today is asset management. Digital asset management authority peter krogh, author of the dam book digital asset management, sits down with me to discuss best practices for managing your growing photo collection in adobe. This book is a lot of things but let me start by telling you what it is not. The comprehensive workflow guide to photo management with lightroom, presented in easytofollow multimedia format. To nas, or not, to nas adobe support community 5531456.
The leica q2 is an impressively capable fixedlens, fullframe camera with a 47mp sensor and a sharp, stabilized 28mm f1. Gear reports like lensage usage, camera usage, aperture, focal length, iso speed and shutter speed. I am struggling with cataloging and the old shoe box of photos mentality, and am working through peter kroghs book, and it seems that lightroom could or can be a dam product. Lightroom workflow now that weve generally outlined the workflow for works in progress, lets take a look at a concrete example accomplishing those tasks. Lightroom with its integrated solutions or blue ray burners. Mar 27, 2014 in this webinar peter krogh will cover topics from his newest book, the second edition of the dam book guide to organizing your photos with lightroom 5, focusing on how to maximize your use of. Organizing your photos with lightroom 5 the dam book. This was followed in december 20 by the dam book guide to organizing your photos with lightroom 5. The best solutions can be found in the dam book, our bestselling guide to managing digital images efficiently and effectively. This book is even better than the first edition and includes also a very good sample of a lightroom workflow. I want to put my photo library on there and run lightroom and photoshop. Keep in mind that there have been essentially no changes in the lightroom dam functions since the book was written. It has a lot of power and so there is a learning curve for the more advanced features, but it is useable out of the box as it were and you can extend its features as you get to grips with it more. Its styled like a traditional leica m rangefinder and brings a host of updates to the hugely popular original leica q typ 116 that was launched in 2015.
Is anyone using something besides these 2 for dam capabilities. It addresses the entire ecosystem of our visually connected world in a very complete and unified manner. Want to know more about your productivity, these analytics reports can help. Great book if like me you are just starting with a dam system like lightroom and wish to start off the right way. The book provides a very stable workflow and image management system for long in the future to come. Managing your lightroom library with peter krogh youtube.
So lightroom is truly the allinone dam solution, but how you choose to implement it is a personal choice. Productivy reports like photo history, which reports how much time you spend on develop for example a wedding shoot. This means that you as a subscriber to my newsletter not only get 70 free lightroom presets and a free ebook called 8 tools for photographers. While lightroom is a great tool for managing your digital assets, it is really only geared for a single catalog workflow. In this article, well look at three open source image processing applications. Jan 07, 2018 dam alternative to lightroom windows environment jan 7, 2018 hi to all, first of all sorry for my poor english. I have the dam book and was aware that he used to use iview media pro etc. Built on the principles first outlined in the dam book, this multimedia ebook presents a thorough examination of the methods and techniques for creating solid multicatalog workflow with lightroom 5. I hate to say it, but peter kroghs logic is superb. He is generally recommending lightroom for dam now. In september 20, dam useful publishing created its first new ebook, the dam book guide to multicatalog workflow with lightroom 5. In 2009, the second edition of the dam book added the use of adobe photoshop lightroom to the described workflow. It is a definitive source of information about everything you need to know to get your photos organized, archived, and protected.
Also, after starting to use lightroom, it became clear that there must be a better way. Jan 30, 2017 why every photographer should give a dam. Krogh will cover topics from his newest book, the second edition of the dam book guide to organizing your photos with lightroom 5, focu. I just didnt cite the history that far back in my reply. These notes are prepared for the attendees of my talk at henry stewart dam europe summer 2019. The dam book guide to organizing your photos with lightroom 5. Adobe lightroom, microsoft expression media, and photoshop cs4 and migrating file formats, from one storage medium to another, and from film to digital. By the way, the free ebook is an excerpt from my ebook the photographers toolbox, which you can get at the store. Lightroom as a digital asset management tool lightroom. Dam useful publishing is committed to providing clear and comprehensive tools to help photographers, and those working with photographs, to understand the digital photography ecosystem, and to maximize the longevity, discoverability, utility and value of photographic images. His methods are easy to learn and adopt into your own workflow.
The dam book guide to organizing your photos with lightroom 5 from dam useful publishing is a book and dvd that features a 208page multimedia ebook that contains about 7 hours of video as well as a softcover book. Like a lot of people, i am staying away from the subscription based lightroom and want something that is purely software which manages my digital assets doesnt have to be raw editor as i will be using affinity photo or similar to edit my photos. It was created by author peter krogh and offers a variety of tips and techniques for organizing your photographs using adobes. Digital asset management for photographers second edition. Although the book says lightroom 5, it is applicable to all versions of lightroom from 4 through the latest version of lightroom cc. Adobe lightroom, microsoft expression media, and photoshop cs4. Offering much more than a dam bookthis is a comprehensive guide to modern, realworld digital asset storage practices. I had just bought lightroom when i got this book and used it to structure my dam system much better than i would have ever known to do otherwise. Digitizing your photos with your camera and lightroom presents a comprehensive stepbystep guide for equipment selection, photo preparation, scanning workflow, tagging, curation and digital photo management. Described as a book that every photographer should read, it is a literary staple for any photographer who is. Anyone who shoots, scans, or stores digital photographs is practicing digital asset management dam, but few people do it in a way that makes sense.
While the principles of dam remain the same, the technology has made massive advancements. Id love something to just replicate a fast version of lightroom back around version 4 or 5 or even 3, before they put in all the extra garbage like 0. The dam book guide to organizing your photos with lightroom 5 from dam useful publishing is a dvd that features a 208page multimedia ebook that contains about 7 hours of video. In late 20 peter krogh published a new multimedia ebook called the dam book guide to organizing your photos with lightroom 5 herein organizing your photos or oyp. Cataloging software such as lightroom makes this process much easier to manage as it saves preferences and filenaming conventions for. Adobe photoshop lightroom cc 12 month subscription, student and teacher edition, download. Organizing your photos with lightroom 5 multimedia ebook. Dam software for managing photo libraryalternative to lightroom. Just finished reading the second edition of peter kroghs the dam book. The dam book guide to multicatalog workflow with lightroom 5 published by dam useful publishing is a 1page multimedia ebook with 3. Since i started working with lightroom, around 2007, i met the name of peter krog.
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