How can you say iMatch this when iMatch is only a DAM (...)
(...) Why. LR has a built in DAM!!
Jpegman
If you only work with images and Lr does all 'DAM' you need, great!
But real DAM software (AssetBank,, Canto, DAMinion, Extensis, FotoWare, PhotoSupreme, Widen, ... IMatch) exists for good reasons. It does so much more DAM than Lr.
IMatch is used as the backbone of digital asset management by thousands of users world-wide. It is not tied to a specific RAW processor (Lr) but happily works with DxO, Capture One, ON1, SilkyPix etc. Also Photoshop. Affinity software or any other RAW processor or image editor.
As a real DAM it also manages non-image files like videos, audio files, PDF and Office documents - basically all files you need to deal with. Critical, if you work in projects or you do more than just images. Central concepts like versioning, categorization, time-lining, metadata propagation, classification, searching, sorting and filtering works for all your files. Whether you manage 50,000 or 500,000 files in your IMatch database. And that locally or via any network using
IMatch Anywhere™ .
About 50% of the IMatch user base uses Lr and/or Photoshop. Plus a mix of other RAW processors, image and video editor or other content generation applications. IMatch cooperates with and integrates all these tools and applications.
Having your DAM independent from your RAW processor has many advantages. From the ability to manage all files in your workflow in one application to the freedom to choose the best RAW processor for the job at hand.
But, again: If Lightroom does all you need - great. Whatever works for you is good.
