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- iceberg
Hi, what's the tools that photographers work with to manage, archive, keyword their large image databases locally or in the cloudz? thankful for a hint or link.
- dibec0
Lightroom and Aperture are the biggest two.
- dibec0
no really cloud application for pros. You are just working with big files. Best locally. Adobe has some "flickr" application that holds your photos and such.
- dibec0
ice cream.
- iceberg0
thx dibec
so if aperture and lightroom are locally - sending and sharing imgs is via ftp?
- vaxorcist0
Cloud hosting has had a few ups and downs...
Digital Railroad died
Photo Shelter retooledWhat's your market? How important is keywording? I know people who use some less-well-known packages...
http://www.breezesys.com/BreezeB…
http://www.camerabits.com/site/P…Extensis seems to have changed, aiming at corporate shooters:
http://www.extensis.com/en/produ…
- dibec0
yes. i have sent drives before. lol. you can also access it remotely via NAS or a server. Not super stable, but it can save you if you need to. Pushing 20+ megs files over the net is just not efficient.
- vaxorcist0
I've done a number all-night FTP sessions... probably not all night, I just start uploading and go to sleep, usually it's done by morning... I zip it all into one huge file first, as millions of little files tend to flake out on some connections....
- dibec0
no matter how you do it. it just concludes it is a pain in the ass to do. haha.
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- Stian0
For backup I use external drives (one - two per year) where projects are filed under agency/client/project. These are backed up to my online backup solution - which takes a great deal of time, but it´s worth it as I can access my library from anywhere.
For delivery online I use Dropbox with shared folders. Works fine.
Keywording is done manually on a text file that I keep mirrored on three places. (keywords, client/agency/project, date, year etc). It´s probably not the most effective way of doing it, but lightroom/aperture will be outdated in a few years, a txt wont.
- << interesting perspective on software. i'll have to consider this.bigtrickagain
- lightroom/aperture will be outdated, especially as Adobe's ITC data is non-standard...vaxorcist
- iceberg0
keywording in txt files seems fiddly, i mean it's quick n dirty but couldn't you work with lightroom/aperture and write keywords right into the image data?