The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers

by Peter Krogh

O'Reilly Media (280 pages)
Keyword(s): Nonfiction, Photography
Dates read: December 25-31, 2006, Rating: ****

I have roughly 7,000 photos in my library, growing at about 2,000 photos each year, and it's getting increasingly hard to keep organized. This is the first photography book that I've read that has made me immediately change my behavior. I'm not rushing out to buy Photoshop CS2, so I can't use Adobe Bridge as suggested by the author, but the techniques Krogh suggests can be easily adapted to other software (Photoshop Elements or the Adobe Lightroom beta, for example). The "ratings pyramid" he espouses is a great idea — obvious in retrospect — and I'm starting to implement it today.

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