Hi Aaron
If you're PC based you could look at Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. This is a
hybrid editing/image management application. Like Michael's suggestion of
Aperture (a similar application but for the Mac based user) it is designed
primarily with photographers in mind and is most suitable for those using
raw files - a big plus is that it enables you to make non-destructive edits
to raw files. The image management features of Lightroom are very good and
it will certainly help with your image management issues. Adobe Bridge is
really a glorified folder viewer and will certainly go some way to help but
won't be anywhere near as fast or slick as a true image management system
since it has to re-render previews of your images on the fly and is not
based around a database.
It should be noted that both Lightroom and Aperture are client only apps
(they'll sit on one machine only and can't be configured as server-client
systems). If you want multiple user access to your image management
database you'll need to look at things such as Extensis Portfolio, Canto
Cumulus etc.
JISC Digital Media have some useful resources if you've the time to have a
quick read. The following Bit.ly links point to some particularly useful
resources on Image and Digital Asset Management Systems:
<http://bit.ly/JFgTx> Choosing a System for Managing your Image Collection
<http://bit.ly/HKDnC> Systems for Managing Digital Media Collections
<http://bit.ly/1NWvEC> Image Management Software (The providers tell us
what their systems can and can't do for you)
Hope that helps
Dave Kilbey
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--On 02 October 2009 11:20 +0100 Michael Stocking
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> Aaron
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> For two easy and cheap solutions, you could look at Adobe Bridge or Apple
> Aperture. Up from there you get into Digital Asset Management systems.
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> On 2 Oct 2009, at 11:05, Aaron Hickman wrote:
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>> Dear Sir/Madam
>>
>>
>>
>> I am researching into a new way we can manage our images at
>> Wolverhampton Art Gallery. We have a large quantity of images saved
>> and
>> need them to be more centralised so as to be more accessible to
>> colleagues. We edit each image and resize them and save them into
>> their
>> resized folder. Having duplicates of the same image and different
>> sizes
>> can be hard to organise. Is there an easier way to manage a large
>> quantity of images?
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>>
>> Aaron Hickman
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