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Image Management software?
Sam Carleton, Photographer
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Mason | OH | USA | Posted: 1:07 AM on 05.04.11 |
->> I am a firm believer in Photo Mechanic, what I am looking for is the image management software that is used by the media centers to import all the images and IPTC info so that multiple folks can quickly find images.
The reason I am asking is because there are a number of photographers now shooting for our Boy Scout Council and we would like to start creating a real database of the images so that when others needs images of someone, we can do a quick query and find those images. |
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Clark Brooks, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Urbana | IL | USA | Posted: 9:49 AM on 05.04.11 |
->> If you don't want to host the image database, consider using Photo Shelter (www.photoshelter.com). As soon as photogs upload their captioned and keyworded files, they will immediately become searchable. You can control access to the images for clients and contributors through the password system.
If you are looking for a solution to host on your own server, look at imagefolio (www.imagefolio.com). I've used it for almost a decade to catalog and distribute images. It is easily customizable in design and function if you know html and PERL. If you envision having more than 10K of images available, you certainly will want to invest in the mySQL version. |
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Patrick Fallon, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Jim Burgess, Photographer
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Gainesville | FL | US | Posted: 10:52 AM on 05.04.11 |
| ->> Sam... everything mentioned costs money. And in some cases I suspect a lot of money. You have a Boy Scout project....what is your budget? |
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Mark Sutton, Photographer
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Herndon | VA | USA | Posted: 11:26 AM on 05.04.11 |
->> Sam, It's funny you ask that because I'm in the process of setting my Photoshelter site up the same way Brad Mangin has his set up. http://manginphotography.net/ He has a blog for his stories through www.wordpress.com and his archives of all his images are through his Photoshelter site. Ron Vesely has an excellent blog too http://www.vesphoto.net/ that he also uses his Photoshelter site for his archives as well.
Both are excellent examples that I’ve run across, but there is probably a whole lot more you can use as an example. Plus you can do all of your image uploads through Photomechanic and it's an excellent place for off-site storage. My site is no way near as nice as theirs is or completed as well. A work in progress I always say. |
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John Froschauer, Photographer
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Tacoma | WA | USA | Posted: 7:14 PM on 05.04.11 |
| ->> If you are looking for a database image software (both still and video) Expression Media 2, now owned by Phase One, is pretty cool. My first brush with it was when I worked at a newspaper that used it many years ago to keep track of images stored on cd's. It's been sold a couple of times, owned by Microsoft for a time where it languished, but has now been taken over by Phase One. One of the cool things is there are free utilities for both Mac or PC with the ability to search the database on a network. Lots of the same rankings as Photo Mechanic and of course all the IPTC data. Even if the disks aren't live, it keeps track of where the image is stored and on what disk. Only thing to remember there is to keep the same file/folder structure on those disks or it will lose track. I had forgotten about it until reading Peter Krogh's book on image management http://www.thedambook.com/. |
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Butch Miller, Photographer
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Lock Haven | PA | USA | Posted: 8:13 PM on 05.04.11 |
->> +1 for Expression Media 2 (formerly iView Media Pro) ... It is a wonderful DAM solution ... Not only does it do a wonderful job at managing image and video files while maintaining useful ratings, labels, etc. used in PM, Bridge and Lightroom ... But you can also catalog and track almost any file your computer uses ... Word documents, spreadsheets, pdf's, etc.
While I use Lightroom extensively for my current files, I use EM2 as my long term archive ... Once a job has been delivered, it is added to the EM2 catalog ... With EM2, I can view and edit IPTC and EXIF data for any file in the catalog wheter the file is currently available on my system or network or not ... And for the price of $199 ... It is a huge bargain over the long term ...
http://www.phaseone.com/expressionmedia2 |
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Sam Carleton, Photographer
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Mason | OH | USA | Posted: 11:45 PM on 05.04.11 |
->> Jim Burgess asked about a budget, well, I don't start with the cost and go from there, I start with features and then figure out how to get the funds to make it happen.
For the Boy Scouts, I am leaning towards a web solution so that everyone can manage and access the images from individual homes.
Since I am also a developer (the developer of Photo Parata event photography system) and a bit of an entrepreneur, I am thinking going beyond just my troop and the Council and setting something up for lots of troops to offset the cost.
Of all the web solutions mentioned, I could only find prices online for imagefolio (http://www.imagefolio.com). After a touch of research, imagefolio will allow me to setup different "zones" for different scout troops. So unless there are other suggestions, I am really leaning that direction right now.
Sam |
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