Daminion Digital Asset Software

Looking across the web recently I found a new Beta release from a company called Daminion. You can download the 0.8.9b version at the company's website. http://daminion.net/.

It looks like the product would serve a small digital asset management setup among a few users. The range of file types supported by the software seems extensive but I wonder how it embeds the data in Nikon and Canon raw files.

If you are looking for a way to setup a DAM system then this program might be a good solution at an affordable price. The only down side I see to the product is that it is a Windows only program. It looks like the Mac users are out of luck with this product at this time.

Lightroom 4 Beta and Metadata

In case you have been asleep for the last week you may want to know that Adobe Labs has released a beta version of Lightroom 4.

I've been looking at how the software handles metadata of the images I've processed and must admit I've been impressed.

I would still like to see a larger box to input keywords and descriptions. And I think for high volume users with several photographers this may not be the best solution. But after a few test runs I think the ability to add metadata to images as well as the many post-processing features of the software make it a must have software program for the professional or semi-professional photographer.

Right now it's available for trial at: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom4/

Snapseed Software Now in the App Store

A simple snapshot of the cat can be turned into something really cool.

It's not really related to Digital Asset Management but Snapseed is now for sale in the App store. It allows you to do a lot of things to an image and create some nice effects.

The only disadvantage I've found so far is that it will only allow me to save images a jpegs.

At the price of $19.99 it's hard to beat.