ABSTRACT
Many photographers will use cataloguing software or digital asset management software to ‘see’ their files through the whole process. Digital asset management software handles more than image files and can produce catalogues of audio and video files, as well as illustration files in bitmap and vector forms, and also most document and page layout file formats. Some photographers simply suppress these cataloguing filters to use a digital asset manager as an image database. One of the key ideas behind an album or collection of digital files is that the file does not physically have to reside in two places to appear in two albums. Each album will point back to the original file. In the long term, it becomes vital to create accessible catalogues of legacy files that are keyword indexed and cross-referenced. There is money to be made from legacy files, but the photographer must be able to retrieve them economically to make handling old images financially viable.
