Photo Mechanic 4.5 beta
Camera Bits announce a public beta of Photo Mechanic 4.5. This will be a major update to the world’s fastest image browser.
Peter Krogh in Australia
Peter Krogh’s Dam Workflow Presented By Nikon Australia & DAMsimple The AIPP are pleased to announce that Digital Asset Management (DAM) Guru Peter Krogh is coming to Australia and New Zealand for a limited series of workshops from 25 May to 1 June 2007. Nikon Australia and DAMsimple are proudly sponsoring the event. The workshops … Read more
Testing Loyalties (or, DAM, Politics, Religion and Sex)
Around the middle of 2007 iView will be no more and the much-loved MediaPro will become Microsoft Expression Media. Microsoft purchased iView Multimedia in June 2006. Recently Microsoft has been quietly informing us that the first version of Expression Media will essentially be the same as the current MediaPro 3. In other words, don’t expect … Read more
iView MediaPro 3.1.3 update
iView releases MediaPro 3.1.3. This update supports new cameras and fixes bugs introduced in v3.1.2 five months ago.
Lightroom release date
Adobe have announced Lightroom will be released 19 February 2007 at an initial price of US$199. Lightroom does not offer enough DAM features to replace applications like iView MediaPro. Lightroom is an alternative to Adobe Bridge for photographers.
Meta What?
Besides the actual photo, digital images also contain metadata; data about data, including EXIF and IPTC. EXIF is the information about how the image was captured (shutter speed, lens, time/date, etc). IPTC is used to enter information to describe what the image is about (the who, what, when, why, how). With Orphan Works legislation being passed … Read more
DAM Workflow videos
DAMuseful have released a set of training videos. They demonstrate Peter Krogh’s workflow as outlined in his DAM Book.
PANPA 2006 Workflow seminar
Join us at PANPA 2006: the Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers’ Association Annual Conference and Exhibition.