I am not inclined to try it out a third time. I tried twice to get an download authorization email so I could try it out and no joy either time. offering users real, economical and so called "Lite" choices. Daminion also offers several price levels from $49 USD -$79-$99.ĪCDSee as pointed out is a much better price than PSU or say iMatch, which also may not offer non Ai or no Farce Detection versions.Īll listed are IME excellent DAM software, but are all becoming bloated with AI features few people really need but seem like "must have features" that keep the prices / profits high, vs. Daminion stand alone is not easy to find on their website but a Google search will find it and it's up to date but it too may have the flawed AI and Farce Detection bloat. There is no PSU version without those useless to me features, as I don't photograph many "faces", which IMO would be a lite version.ĭaminion stand alone version offers a "free" use to catalog up to15,000 images, which is 3x better than this PSU Crippled version. That's too expensive for me and I don't need the imperfect and bloated Ai or Farce detection code either. So less user control options.Īlso at the bottom left of the main window was a fairly large permanent ad to buy the single user version at $129 USD. Plus the PSU Lite installed database could not be installed where I wanted it and after, another or different catalog could not also be created. The catalog will add more and image previews could add another 5-10 GBs for large previews of some RAW files types for those 5,000 images. Installed to W10 it installs to 250+ MBs plus before any images are cataloged or previews are built. The LR catalogue is still very good for photographers, but it really depends on what you want to do.This PSU DAM version isn't "Lite", it's CRIPPLED. Photo Supreme and iMatch (if you are on Windows) are far more polished than PM6. ![]() And, for me, who spends a lot of time in PM, the PM+ upgrade was well worth the investment.Īs a low cost and powerful option it's hard to beat Neofinder. It's very fast and excellent at browsing and searching within it's limited features. ![]() When you right click on an image in PM, t tells you what collections an image belongs to. Plus other small things, that I can't remember, but are standard features in every other DAM I've used.Īlthough there are no smart folders, you can save searches to a drop down list, and you manually create collections. For example there are no smart folders, no option to search on image orientation, and only a limited number of IPTC fields that can be searched for. I have experience of using a range of DAMs (Media Pro, the catalogue tools in LR and C1, and Neofnder, plus some others) and while PM+ is a valuable addition to PM, I don't feel it is yet, a fully fledged DAM. The upgrade from PM to PM+ was only, as I remember, $99 so it wasn't a difficult decision for me. I use PM as a core part of my workflow, especially key wording, but the search tools in PM have never been very good and I feel that PM+ adds good search tools to PM. I've used PM6+ since the first public beta (and like you, PM since v4). I'm not sure I've noticed it stripping out keywords, so again I will need to checkģ. I haven't paid much attention, but reviews have suggested a steady improvement in the way DXO handles metadata with each new release. I'm pretty sure, but I need to check, that you can control what metadata is embedded in the Jpeg Are you, (were you) exporting/uploading jpegs directly from PM. It used to be easy with spotlight.ĭo many folks here use PM6+? I have considered it several times but the cost to value over v6 seems unviable to me as a non business user.Ĭlick to expand.1. I edit with DXO (and more recently restarted with Affinity) now rather than Photoshop - DXO specifically seems to strip out and alter what it doesn't like especially keywords so again stupidly I stopped using that. That said I now rarely use the online photo sharing sites anymore It has always been an overkill for what I use it for but continue to ingest everything with it but stopped using a load of it's functionality when I realised that metadata, when used, offered more information publicly than I desired especially when using with Flickr and images on a public place. I just looked - I brought v4 in 2008 then updated to v6 in 2020. They rarely ask for money and that suits me just fine. ![]() I have used PM for some years and is a god send when I have a load of pictures to swiftly go through and cull the duds. Thanks for this - I noted it but didn't actually watch it until today when time permitted.
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