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    tallrob got a reaction from Spike Photography in [Poll] Do you need a DAM? And what should it be like?   
    Honestly I'm not sure why this is such a long-standing question. Any real professional media production suite needs a lossless DAM for managing versions and editing history. And integrating a RAW processor is critical to its success. This is a no-brainer. Just look at all the big names, present and former: Lightroom, Capture One, Aperture (R.I.P.), even Apple Photos and iPhoto before it. Apple doesn't use the finder to manage photos and videos, why should we? Adobe Bridge was good enough until the Library/Catalog database concept replaced it. Bridge still dumps dozens of near duplicates on your hard drive, and should your sidecar files ever become separated, good luck. And Managing RAW files in the Finder or Bridge is a lesson in frustration.
    Let's stop trying to reinvent the wheel here. A database DAM RAW editor tool is essential. 
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    tallrob got a reaction from mrtymcln in [Poll] Do you need a DAM? And what should it be like?   
    Honestly I'm not sure why this is such a long-standing question. Any real professional media production suite needs a lossless DAM for managing versions and editing history. And integrating a RAW processor is critical to its success. This is a no-brainer. Just look at all the big names, present and former: Lightroom, Capture One, Aperture (R.I.P.), even Apple Photos and iPhoto before it. Apple doesn't use the finder to manage photos and videos, why should we? Adobe Bridge was good enough until the Library/Catalog database concept replaced it. Bridge still dumps dozens of near duplicates on your hard drive, and should your sidecar files ever become separated, good luck. And Managing RAW files in the Finder or Bridge is a lesson in frustration.
    Let's stop trying to reinvent the wheel here. A database DAM RAW editor tool is essential. 
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    tallrob reacted to page3 in Can we do software requests? possible Lightroom alternative?   
    I absolutely disagree with this.
     
    In the context of photo management, a DAM must included both organisation and non-destructive editing. These are expected features these days and without them what's the point?
     
    Fixx (post above) says "I am not sure people understand that it is very different animal compared to plain vanilla pixel work. It just may be too hard to built application with instant non-destructive editing.". I disagree with this too. People are very aware of the difference and it is clearly achievable as applications such as Aperture, Lightroom and Capture One demonstrate.
     
    My view is that with the demise of Aperture, the market is crying out for a modern replacement. All current options fall down in one (or more) areas. Lightroom has an ancient UI and some poorly thought out workflow decisions. Capture One has only basic organisation functionality. Neither integrate with the macOS ecosystem well.
     
    Anyone who nails it will have the market for their taking.
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    tallrob reacted to raf in Can we do software requests? possible Lightroom alternative?   
    Another Aperture orphan here. Already tried Capture One Pro and Lightroom and unfortunately the modular interface and poor UI/UX made me continue to use Aperture hoping for something better. I am really looking forward to see what Affinity can come up with on this territory.
     
    Rafael
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    tallrob got a reaction from Glassed Silver in [DAM] Affinity Lightroom Killer Request   
    Great news.
     
    Two things: 
     
    1) Please make the DAM application, as well as its utilization of Affinity Photo as an "external" editor, as non-destructive as possible.  At its best, AP would not even be considered "external" at all, but just another editing instruction set that doesn't touch or duplicate the original file.  This is a top priority for me.
     
    2) Those of you who cite Bridge as the superior due to its "in-place" approach to file management, both Aperture and Lightroom (and Capture One) can do the same type of "referenced" management.  Bridge is a god awful mess of an application.  I hope nothing is modeled after it where DAM is concerned.  Libraries/Catalogs have come a long way since iPhoto started hiding originals years ago.  They're not a bad idea anymore.  But it's always nice and necessary to allow files to remain unmanaged (just not the way Bridge does it).
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    tallrob got a reaction from Michael Naylor in Can we do software requests? possible Lightroom alternative?   
    Since this thread seems to have been effectively pinned as the future DAM app feature request thread, I'd like to copy what I posted earlier on two occasions, which never got any response.  I guess I could sum up both of these by just saying "do it like Aperture did it", but here they are for reference.
     
     
    And this way back in Feb '15
     
     
     
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    tallrob got a reaction from donka in [DAM] Affinity Lightroom Killer Request   
    Great news.
     
    Two things: 
     
    1) Please make the DAM application, as well as its utilization of Affinity Photo as an "external" editor, as non-destructive as possible.  At its best, AP would not even be considered "external" at all, but just another editing instruction set that doesn't touch or duplicate the original file.  This is a top priority for me.
     
    2) Those of you who cite Bridge as the superior due to its "in-place" approach to file management, both Aperture and Lightroom (and Capture One) can do the same type of "referenced" management.  Bridge is a god awful mess of an application.  I hope nothing is modeled after it where DAM is concerned.  Libraries/Catalogs have come a long way since iPhoto started hiding originals years ago.  They're not a bad idea anymore.  But it's always nice and necessary to allow files to remain unmanaged (just not the way Bridge does it).
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    tallrob got a reaction from Swanny in DAM/Non-destructive editing   
    It's really really really great that we're finally seeing some promising Photoshop competition.  I've been following the Pixelmator development closely but they aren't aiming at the professional market.  Finally somebody else is.  Thanks so much and congrats.  I'm buying the App as soon as it's released just to support the cause and keep up with it until such time as it fills all my needs.  However...
     
    Perhaps the greatest need goes beyond Photo editing, and beyond what Affinity Designer is doing.  Think bigger.  The weak spot in any workflow is Digital Asset Management (DAM).  Hierarchical Folder organizing is terribly inefficient and outdated.  Adobe Bridge tried to solve that but .xmp sidecar files are messy.  Lightroom is the king of photo DAM now that Aperture is being phased out.  But Aperture had DAM right.  It was the absolute best at organizing, sorting, rating, version stacking and keyboarding, and while its RAW engine was mediocre, it made up for it with the best roundtrip editing workflow out there.  It was totally under appreciated except by those who dug in and used it to the fullest, and now there's a huge gap to be filled.  We need something to compete with Lightroom, and it needs to be database driven.  Forget sidecar files.  If you can come up with a way to truly manage digital assets - not just photos, but video, vector files and (god willing) your future replacement for InDesign files, you'd blow Adobe and its cloud subscription service out of the water.
     
    Please please consider an application to manage our files.  The Finder just doesn't cut it.
     
    (I'm not sure what type of integration will be possible with the new Photos app that's "replacing" iPhoto and Aperture, but word is you can't do star ratings or stacks, and it might never be up to snuff)
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    tallrob got a reaction from s2art in DAM/Non-destructive editing   
    It's really really really great that we're finally seeing some promising Photoshop competition.  I've been following the Pixelmator development closely but they aren't aiming at the professional market.  Finally somebody else is.  Thanks so much and congrats.  I'm buying the App as soon as it's released just to support the cause and keep up with it until such time as it fills all my needs.  However...
     
    Perhaps the greatest need goes beyond Photo editing, and beyond what Affinity Designer is doing.  Think bigger.  The weak spot in any workflow is Digital Asset Management (DAM).  Hierarchical Folder organizing is terribly inefficient and outdated.  Adobe Bridge tried to solve that but .xmp sidecar files are messy.  Lightroom is the king of photo DAM now that Aperture is being phased out.  But Aperture had DAM right.  It was the absolute best at organizing, sorting, rating, version stacking and keyboarding, and while its RAW engine was mediocre, it made up for it with the best roundtrip editing workflow out there.  It was totally under appreciated except by those who dug in and used it to the fullest, and now there's a huge gap to be filled.  We need something to compete with Lightroom, and it needs to be database driven.  Forget sidecar files.  If you can come up with a way to truly manage digital assets - not just photos, but video, vector files and (god willing) your future replacement for InDesign files, you'd blow Adobe and its cloud subscription service out of the water.
     
    Please please consider an application to manage our files.  The Finder just doesn't cut it.
     
    (I'm not sure what type of integration will be possible with the new Photos app that's "replacing" iPhoto and Aperture, but word is you can't do star ratings or stacks, and it might never be up to snuff)
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