DAMINION 0.8.3 RELEASED
| June 27th, 2011 | by Murat |
To get the latest version of the program visit our Download page.
Considerable efforts have been put into fixing bugs and optimizing the program. On top of that, we’ve been developing a multi-user network version. The Daminion Server Lite version is currently undergoing tests from our testers and we’ve even added several new features!
What’s new in this version?
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We’ve added a new panel to display the active query filter. In the past, if your catalog contained a large number of tags there were times when you couldn’t see all the ones you’d selected. Several people have mentioned this to us, so now we’ve changed it and it’s up and running.
The panel enables you not only to display the current query but also to remove the tags and switch the Boolean operations between – AND/OR. For more complex manipulations press the Advanced button.
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INTERVIEW WITH IGOR SHOIFOT, FOTKI.COM
| June 22nd, 2011 | by Murat |
Igor Shoifot is our first guest who kindly agreed to answer our questions. He is a co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of world’s largest independent photo site, Fotki.com, used by millions of customers to store billions of photos and videos.
We first met with Igor when developing the PicaJet Uploader for Fotki.com.
Igor Shoifot is the Chief Dude at Shoifot.com, adviser at several startups, and adjunct of business and marketing at UC Berkeley.
He was most recently a co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of world’s largest independent photo site, Fotki.com, used by millions of customers to store billions of photos and videos. He was CEO of Microsoft WebTV’s largest site, Epsylon Games and founded start-ups in online games, VOD, VoIP, photo sharing, social networking, document management and storage, published articles and interviews at The Wall Street Journal, Venture Beat, San Francisco Examiner and many other publications.
Currently, he is working on the book “101 Viral Growth Tools”. He previously taught business at New York University for many years and recently guest-lectured at Stanford. He holds PhD, MBA, MA and BA degrees from Universities in Boston, Budapest and Moscow.
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INTERVIEWS WITH SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
| June 10th, 2011 | by Murat |
We decided to launch a new blog rubric: Interviews with successful people.
Yes, I realize we are a software company and this is not a typical blog topic for companies like ours, I think many of you will enjoy reading the real world success stories.
We’ll interview successful people, entrepreneurs and small & medium business owners, because Daminion Server is designed for small businesses and small creative teams.
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WE HAVE LAUNCHED A NEW FORUM
| June 08th, 2011 | by Murat |
We’ve launched a new forum (powered by IPBoard).
Now you can get notifications of new answers to your questions or new comment to your answer, set an avatar for your profile and vote for the answers
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DAMINION VS LIGHTROOM
| May 31st, 2011 | by Murat |
Lightroom – is primarily a first-rate Camera RAW editor with built-in photo management and presentation tools for professional photographers.
Daminion – is a digital media management system that focuses on management and presentation only and doesn’t include any built-in editing capabilities. The key benefit of the program is its Multi-user access.
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DAMINION 0.8.2 RELEASED
| May 24th, 2011 | by Murat |
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Another two weeks is over and we’ve released a minor Daminion 0.8.2 version: You can download the latest Daminion 0.8.2 (323) version on our Download page. |
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DAMINION 0.8.1 RELEASED
| May 06th, 2011 | by Murat |
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Another month is over and we are ready to show you a new version of the Daminion. You can download the latest Daminion 0.8.1 (306) version on our Download page. |
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ENHANCED PROPERTIES PANEL
| April 26th, 2011 | by Murat |
Any document or media file properties (tags) can be easily edited in the Properties Panel; it has been significantly rewritten since PicaJet. The major differences and benefits of the new Properties panel are:
- Customized view and a preset of views
- Text editors in multiline tag editor
- Enhanced keyboard support
- Property Panel is a floating window that can be dragged to a second monitor
- Editing hierarchical tags
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DAMINION 0.8.292 HAS BEEN RELEASED!
| April 07th, 2011 | by Murat |
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The new Daminion version 0.8.292 has just been released. This is mostly a bug fix release, with a few new features. Installing the new version is recommended for all users. |
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THE MAIN DRAWBACK OF METADATA AND HOW DAMINION SOLVES THIS ISSUE
| March 18th, 2011 | by Murat |
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Metadata is digital content information; it is often stored inside the same file as a text block (rarely in a separate sidecar file). Any DAM system should support these files. |
Main benefits of the Metadata
- Once the file information is entered, it is never lost. It travels along with the file whenever it is copied or moved to another location.
- This system helps you or someone else to understand the graphic content.
- It allows the quick integration of your document to an external system with no additional effort.
- It will protect your ownership and copyrights.
- It allows you to locate your documents, quickly and easily.
- It enables future reuse and further identification.
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IMPORT PICAJET 2 ALBUM TO DAMINION
| March 08th, 2011 | by Murat |
The quickest way to get started work with Daminion is to import your media collection from your current digital photo and media management system.
1. If Daminion and PicaJet are installed on the same computer
- Launch PicaJet
- Select the first file (this is a fix for a PicaJet bug)
- Navigate to File > Export > Entire Album as XML…
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A NEW DAMINION 0.8 BETA HAS BEEN RELEASED
| March 03rd, 2011 | by Murat |
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We’ve been working hard over the past month and have decided to bring a new Daminion 0.8 Beta version to the public to collect valuable feedback.
We have also launched a new website – http://daminion.net where you can learn more about Daminion, leave your feedback, enter into discussions with other Daminion users, or ask the Daminion Support Team specific questions. |
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THE MOST COMMON ISSUES WITH METADATA
| January 27th, 2011 | by Murat |
(sorted by validity and meaningfulness)
1. No longer caring about metadata
Potential for lost assets, makes assets invisible for searches, and allows others to illegally use your data. Without metadata, DAM is useless!
2. Little information about asset
Due to a lack of resources (time, workforce, funds); a lack of software with built-in automated cataloguing functions; or a lack of convenient tools to help a user quickly describe an asset’s content.
Assets embedded with little or no information can mean difficult and tedious searches. Daminion makes it unnecessary for users to worry about endless metadata standards and fields. You’ll have a limited set of Tags that are mapped to various metadata fields.
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DAMINION IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK
| January 24th, 2011 | by Murat |
We just received an email from our trademark attorney:
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Congratulations!
Your trademark has been officially registered by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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DAMINION 0.7 ALPHA RELEASED
| January 20th, 2011 | by Murat |
We apologize for the delays with this announcement, but the development of multi-user systems such as Daminion requires significant efforts – efforts that necessitated more time than we had expected.
Some quick feature highlights of Daminion 0.7 Alpha:
- 30-plus tags to help you quickly describe and filter your content with just a few mouse clicks (in PicaJet, only categories were available)
- Full Support for XMP, EXIF, IPTC metadata. Any changes of file properties (tags) will automatically be reflected on the file metadata (if the metadata writing is supported by the file media format)
- Reading/writing hierarchical and complex tags from/to metadata
- Quick, advanced and saved searches
- Version control
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DAMINION HAS ADOPTED A NEW LOGOTYPE
| July 21st, 2010 | by Murat |
Daminion is adopting a new logotype. We asked our logotype designers to incorporate a sense of full control, authority and reliability into the new design—those things that characterize Daminion. After several weeks of searching, we selected the logotype you see below; it now adorns the headlines of this blog and the Daminion site.
Below are some of the finalists
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MAC VS PC. WHAT PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS PREFER?
| July 19th, 2010 | by Murat |
Are you a Mac or a PC? The answer depends on many factors including your job. Many designers prefer Macs, while Architects and Engineers prefer PC. What about Photographers?
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SUPPORTED MEDIA AND METADATA FORMATS
| June 18th, 2010 | by Murat |
Daminion supports a huge number of media formats including raster, vector and camera raw images, video, music and PDF format. Later we’ll add support for Microsoft Office, Adobe InDesign, Autodesk AutoCAD formats…
Additional media formats and metadata can be added by third-party developers as new MediaProcessors (MediaProcessor API will be available soon).
Below is the table of media formats and the corresponding metadata supported by the current Daminion version [...]
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USING TAGS TO CLASSIFY THE MEDIA LIBRARY QUICKLY
| June 02nd, 2010 | by Murat |
It’s impossible to avoid human input when classifying media documents. It’s possible for text and audio files, but not for images and videos. Daminion can extract all the technical information from the files, but you will need to manually describe the content of your pictures and videos:
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USING TAGS FOR ADVANCE SEARCHES
| May 18th, 2010 | by Murat |
Daminion Tags help to quickly identify and find your documents and media files
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Area #1 allows for creating, changing, deleting, moving and assigning tags to files. Area #2 helps to perform complex search requests and quickly locates necessary documents with only a few clicks. I’ll write about classification of tags on the next post. Now I’ll show you how quick and easy it is to compose complex search requests with the following sample: [...] |
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Tags are the easy way to classify and locate your media files. Multiple tags can be assigned to a single file without taking up additional space on your hard drive.
 “Camera Lens” |
 “Rating” and “Color Label” |
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SHARED CATALOGS WITH MULTIPLE USER ACCESS
| April 29th, 2010 | by Murat |
Very often, shared access to an image or a media database located on other computers, on a local network, is necessary.
Some stand-alone digital photo and media management software (including PicaJet) allows for sharing of image databases, along with multiple user access from a local network. Media files must be imported with network paths like, “\\mediaserver\photos\…” allowing the images to be retrieved from any PC, on a local network. But this method has significant limitations:
* You can’t see the changes made by other users in the same media database till you restart the media database software, or you refresh the opened catalog.
* You can’t deny specific access, for instance, to those users wishing to view the photos from your “Underwater Session 2010″ project; nor can you stop guests from downloading your hi-res photos.*
* There is no guarantee that your current media cataloging tool will not crash and damage your files due to simultaneous attempts to change the same information by – multiple users.
* Users are unable to check the document, lock it, make changes, and then return it to the database so other customers might see updates and edits.
* No other user will be allowed to edit a document at the same time as another user
* You can’t track authorship and changes to your documents.
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Daminion has made the retrieval of imported assets extremely fast and simple; it stores all the media descriptions in a database named, Catalog. Stand-alone versions of Daminion will use .dmc file extensions.
Pictures (digital images) and other media files – of different formats or themes – can be separated into individual catalogs. For example, private.dmc can be used for private photos; music.dmc for songs; landscapedesign.dmc for the collection of landscape designs, etc.
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DAMINION: THE NEW DAM FOR CREATIVE PROS AND SMALL BUSINESS
| April 13th, 2010 | by Murat |
Dear PicaJet customers,
Announcing a brand new version of our popular photo-cataloging program: Daminion*
This new media management program will manage not only images and movies, but also music and various documents (PDF, Office, InDesign, AutoCAD, etc…).
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