Aperture supports Stacks - a group of related pictures. Lightroom and Aperture both support simple versions - different edits on same master. Nothing I've found supports version tracking, especially through an external program. Simple non-destructive editing - crop, brightness, contrast.ĭrag and drop functionality with other mac apps. Previews and thumbnails are treated as versions of the master. Support for previews of all common image formats and most raw formats. Reasonable speed with catalogs of more than 100,000 images. This requires a lot of under-the-hood time stamps to determine which has priority.Īll database actions should be logged and journaled, so they are reversible. Should be able to restore all file metadata from database. Should be possible to rebuild entire database from images + sidecars. Sidecar contents include the name of their master file. Relevant sidecars are also renamed, and the database updated with new file location/name. Through file system watching, name changes and directory reorganization are caught. (optional - can stress automated backup systems) Where possible metadata is written to the image file itself. Metadata is also written to sidecar files. If Photoshop is used to create a jpeg image, that too is tracked. If I edit a program in photoshop, it will mark the PSD file as being derived, restore as much of the metadata as the PSD format allows. keyword to prevent a people identifier being applied to an image where that person was cropped out.Ībility to track through external editing programs. Some form of exception handling for this: e.g. Metadata applied to a master should propagate down to derived images by default. If my camera produces JPEG and Raw versions, I want the JPEG to be shown as being derived from the Raw version. Derived images are not linear but form a multi-branched tree. A master should be able to list derived images. Version tracking: If a lower resolution, cropped, photoshopped, composited or a black and white image is produced from a master, the system should show that it's a derived image, and allow access to the master. As new pix meet the standards they would be shown. These are the equivalent of smart albums in Aperture. A facet would have a negation for not applicable (Weather isn't applicable inside a house Who isn't applicable in a landscape shot.) Facets allow me to go through a collection in multiple passes and get the missing keywords.Ĭomplex searches: Find all shots between 20 shot in December or January, shot with my Nikon D70, with keyword "snow" rating of 3 or better shot after 3pm in the day. Facets would be things like: Weather Who Where Ecosystem Season Lighting Not all collections would have all facets, but a collection having a facet would nag me to put it in. Synonyms - I can define "Picea glauca" as a synonmym for "White Spruce" entering one, enters the other.įacets: For a set of pictures I want to be able to define a set of facets or categories for collections or folders. (With the correct database linkage, this comes free as a side effect of the point above. Parent items are automatically entered as keywords. Moving a keyword in the master list, or changing spelling, corrects all usage in photos. Separate entries for Birds -> raptors -> falcon and Planes -> fighters -> falcon. I want an extra step to add a new keyword to my list of keywords. (Additional fields are written to sidecars)Ĭontrolled vocabulary. Other programs that have good keywording include IMatch and Photomechanic.įull access to standard metadata: EXIF, ITPC, subject to limits of the file format. Aperture allows drag and drop from a list, multiple sets of hotkeys for words used frequently, copy paste of keywords from one photo to another, and keywords organized in folders. Runs on Mac or on local apache web server.įast keywording. This is my wishlist, posted on another site.Ĭurrently using Apple Aperture. Unable to use exif metadata for searches. =Digikam - very clunky on mac due to importing an entire windowing system. There are NO worthy DAMs for mac right now:
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