[DAM Please!!]

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

[DAM Please!!]

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