Digital BW, The Print

Todd,

OK, as co-god, I agree with Martin that  you can't  make BW  prints if you can't 
find them, <BG>, so here are my thoughts...

I am a big fan of Danz Retrospect. It generally comes with DAT and related 
drives. It is by far the easiest, scriptable and updatable (for newer media) 
program I know. Check it out at http://www.dantz.com/.

For cataloguing images, Extensis Portfolio is certainly powerful, but I don't 
know how competing products compare. One of the issues you can anticipate 
is that when you have layered files you won't get a preview unless you save 
from Photoshop with that option in mind. 

So, keep in mind that these are two different animals - backup vs 
image-cataloguing.

Let's see what others have to say.

Antonis



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Todd Flashner <tflash@e...> wrote:
> Martin, if this is not an appropriate question for this list, feel free to
> kill the thread. I just don't really know which list is the right one for
> it, sooo.......
> 
> I'm looking for recommendations of Mac based image cataloging and 
backup
> applications.
> 
> Right now I have a couple of partitions on my hard drives where I dump
> images, and every once in a while I trash the backup and totally rewrite it
> from the main partition. It's slow and cumbersome for backup, and really a
> mess for finding images - especially for finding images on unmounted disks.
> 
> I know the good cataloging apps will keep a reference of what is stored on
> which disks, but will they also help to synchronize my backups, so that only
> items that have been changed in my main partition will get rewritten to the
> backup? This would save me much time.
> 
> As I'm not really using anything right now, I don't even know what features
> to look out for. So any recommendations regarding Mac based applications,
> and tips on a sensible workflow, would be very much appreciated. This is a
> mess right now.
> 
> Todd