How can a newspaper group with multiple photographers (15+) that, all-together, take and rate pictures from 3 or 4 events daily, manage a photo catalog?
I've heard of Digital Asset Management before, but I'm looking for a solution that runs a server on a local network and has client software that individual computers can access at the same time.
The ability to edit photos in Photoshop and use photos (as links) in InDesign is crucial.
Take a look at the below solutions:
I work at Daminion Software. So I can provide more info about Daminion Server, but I've also listed other products above so you can save your search time and compare products in my list.
There are a lot of standalone digital asset management solutions, but they are not for multi-user usage scenario. All the above products are true multi-user solutions so can runs a server part of your DAM on your server PC and then access to your centralized image and document repository using client programs that will be installed on local computers in your local network.
Daminion and Portfolio are aimed at small and medium size businesses.
Another option which would work well for your scenario is DBGallery, a solution for which I am part of the product team. It is a multi-user photo organization system which runs across a local area network. Links from InDesign work because it stores links to the original files rather than storing the images in the database. To edit the file in hotoshop, simply press Ctrl-D once the image is found and the software passes the file path to Photoshop for editing (or whichever is set as the default image editor). Photos may be rated from 1 to 5 stars.
