![]() ![]() I would really like to go with ACDSee, but the problems with my existing keywords and the fact that it is inconvenient to have ACDSee write new keywords into ICPT or in a XMP is the reason I am still looking for alternatives. Most of them can read them, but integrating them into the new DAM's keyword database is everything but straightforward. ![]() Now the problem I am running into is that other DAMs don't work seamlessly with my existing keywords. There are a number of basic animation tools, but none provide. I actually forgot to mention about Adobe ImageReady, which gets bundled with Photoshop. Oh yes, an update to an earlier post about getting hold of free or Open Source alternatives to Adobe Creative Suite. This was one of the reasons I went with Bridge in the first place, as it writes ICPT metadata directly in the jpeg and creates an XMP for RAWs. Open Source alternatives to Adobe Creative Suite update. It's way easier to built some proprietary database to tuck everything away than to embrace open standards, implement flexible import & export capabilities and making it easy for your users to switch to the product of some other company. This requires a real effort by the software vendor. No software should lock you in by storing your metadata in some sort of proprietary database / cloud or making it hard / impossible to get your data out if you decide to switch to another software or platform. Everything has a way to get it out and into the next DAM and it follows standards. (.) Most importantly it doesn't lock you in. ![]()
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