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An ASMP/It's Your Business event series
By popular demand, this seminar series has been extended to 10 more cities and enhanced with an optional, all-day workshop to provide hands-on experience for a limited number of photographers. Here are the details.
ASMP's education series continues with an evening seminar that focuses on maintaining and managing photographic resources in the digital age.
ASMP, as part of its ongoing educational campaign for professional photographers, announces an evening seminar to teach you how to use metadata to your advantage. The speed associated with good workflow and metadata management means more efficiency in your daily tasks and can lead to quicker responses for sales. Using digital asset management tools to process, deliver, store, and retrieve your photographs, you will be able to turn your image assets into better financial assets.
Program Description
This three-hour program gives a comprehensive overview of digital asset management techniques for the professional photographer. Based on the principles and practices outlined in The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers, this program will introduce you to concepts that will help you to boost productivity in the short term and and to insure integrity of your files in the long term.
Topics covered include:
- Overview of Digital Asset Management
- Types of DAM Software
- Using DNG for an integrated workflow
- Creating a stable information structure
- Hardware configurations
- Backups
- Metadata
- Kinds of Metadata
- How is Metadata stored
- How Metadata can be created and harvested
- Using Metadata to improve productivity
- Using Cataloging Software
- Capabilities of Cataloging Software
- Integrating Catalog Software with Adobe Bridge
- Future Challenges
- File Migration
- File Integrity Confirmation
Preparation for the Workshop
All of the material that will be presented is contained in the instructor's book, The DAM Book. You might find that you have a good head start on the concepts presented by reading the book. Here's a sample chapter. And here's an article on a related topic, using DNG in camera-raw workflows. Feel free to post questions on theDAMbook Forum.
Bio
Photographer Peter Krogh will present the three-hour event, bringing a creative approach and twenty years experience to the challenging subject of digital asset management. Besides contributing many of the articles in ASMP's Digital photography resources, Krogh is the author of The DAM Book, just published by O'Reilly. Learn today's best practices for filing, finding, protecting and reusing digital photos.
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