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Pixelrain. I agree with you. I was assuming it would be a separate app. I think one group of people who would find a comprehensive "DAM" useful would be family historians, who would not necessarily want Affinity Photo. Regards

I won't get involved in what a DAM is, all I want is a replacement for Google Picasa. Good features of Picasa: Face recognition Stores face recognition data in XMP in the jpg file (So can be read by DS photo for example - see below) Enables placing of a location. Not so good features No longer supported Requires a separate database, which has therefore to be backed up and causes problems when moving files to a new computer Not for use on a network. Cannot amend person details (possibly because of the link to uploaded Google photos) I haven't used Lightroom but have DS Photo on my Synology network storage. Good features: Picks up face data from XMP Free (with Synology drive!) Has location data Use on a network Mobile apps available Not so good Must be used through a browser for all features (I think) Not as many features as Picasa. I would therefore hope that the release for Affinity: Stores all data (metadata) in the file (even if a separate database is used for indexing) Can be used on a network Picks up data (including face recognition) from XMP data Has face recognition facility Good search facility Opportunity to amend and add to metadata Can be easily moved to a new computer, without loss of data Good luck with the new program. Although I'm using free programs at the moment, I'd be happy to pay for a good organizer. Incidentally, if you want to view metadata attached to a file, try Exif Pilot http://www.colorpilot.com/exif.html