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![]() I don't believe that programs such as Adobe Bridge or Adobe Lightroom are designed as DAM programs, brilliant though they are for adding metadata and outputting images. If a company with the stature of Extensis can't see a Standalone program being viable what hope have the plethora of other companies got? The big problem is finding a software developer who can design and more importantly, support the program, supply it at a reasonable cost and above all - make themselves a profit. My view, not necessarily shared by others, is that any cross-platform DAM program that can offer as much, if not more than Portfolio will do the job. However on a slightly more positive note, during some recent experimenting early in 2017 I discovered that Portfolio still works with Windows 10, so at least I can continue to send Portfolio catalogues out with Windows browsers in the knowledge that they still have a value. One can't keeping looking backwards and talking about the good old days, however good they were so even this state of affairs will end when the Mac finally gives up the ghost. Just a mere week had killed off a valiant old friend and the catalogues are now only useable on a Mac running OS X 10.5.8 Leopard which I dedicated to running this old software. Only a week later (28 October 2014) the next OS X update appeared to have finally killed off Extensis Portfolio 8.5.8 Standalone as it now failed to load, stating that it is incompatible with the new operating system - Mac OS X 10.10.1 Yosemite. ![]() I was delighted to report on 21 October 2014 that both PhaseOne Media Pro and Extensis Portfolio 8.5 Standalone worked perfectly under Mac OS X 10.10.0 Yosemite, so there appeared to be no immediate issues on the OS compatibility front. The editor who now calls at 5:28pm will be impressed by the efficiency of your service and the Challenger tanks firing - and you can get home on time. So at long last there is no valid excuse for failing to find misplaced images. ![]() However, not withstanding that, any DAM program, such as PhaseOne Media Pro SE, that can do what Portfolio did, as a single-user version and for a reasonable price, will hopefully attract attention and work in a broadly similar fashion. Whilst I still stand by that recommendation, sadly today Extensis themselves feel unable to! It still works exceedingly well if one sets aside time and a suitably enabled computer to delve into its secrets - is still certainly better and has more value for money than most of its competitors - but is now no longer available from or supported by Extensis, although I daresay it can still be found at some outlets. In my both original article reviewing Extensis Portfolio, published back in 2009 in the British Journal of Photography, and online up until late 2014, I heartily recommended an investment in Portfolio 8, saying that you certainly wouldn't regret it. Luckily, the PhaseOne Media Pro SE Manual (in PDF form) has sufficient information to cover most PhaseOne Media Pro SE users' requirements. I must emphasise that this is purely the way that I do things - there will be plenty of users who have neither the time nor the interest in creating anything more complicated and will wonder why I am prevaricating. Alternatively PhaseOne Media Pro SE allows you to email images to clients direct from the program. You can copy the selected images into a new folder by dragging thumbnails of the image files selected for clients, and any other necessary company documentation, to a specially created folder and then the result can then be sent out on USB memory sticks or burnt on to DVD (ensuring that Mac and Windows compatibility is selected). ![]() PhaseOne Media Pro SE offers an easy way to get your high resolution files to a client. This is both easy and efficient, allowing those clients with the requisite operating systems to view your entire catalogue.Ĭollecting files and copying to USB sticks or burning to DVD Then you may add any other necessary company documentation and then the resulting folder can then be sent out on USB memory sticks or burnt on to DVD (ensuring that Mac and Windows compatibility is selected). In the folder containing your master PhaseOne Media Pro SE catalogue simply add the two folders containing PhaseOne Media Pro SE Browser applications for both Windows and Mac. You can create Catalog sets and sub-sets and drag your selected images into those sets for quick grouping and ease of selecting later, should you wish.īroadly speaking there are a huge number of options available to you, such as extracting metadata, creating slideshows, making PDF files, copying files to new locations and backing up your images, but what you cannot do is add metadata to the master image files.Ĭreating cross-platform catalogues with Mac & PC PhaseOne Media Pro SE Browsers
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