What is The Best Lightroom Alternative? Take a look at Daminion DAM!

So I’ve decided to compile a significant list of the major differences between the two products. I should underline that both products are constantly improved, so the information below may get slightly outdated.

Choose yourself:

• Lite Version is for home users, photographers, and individual professionals who use multiple PCs or have extensive archives.
• Local Version is one of the best on-premise DAM tools for production and creative teams, from small companies to large enterprises.

Daminion Local benefits:

• Works for multiple users across a network.
• Controls access to media content by user roles.
• Audits files. It’s easy to find out who made what changes to your content – and why.
• Version Control. You’ll never have to lose a good idea again through someone overwriting your file edits.
• You can read more here.

Daminion Lite benefits:

• You can open multiple catalogs simultaneously as web browser pages.
• Photos can easily move between catalogs.
• Tags describe all information about media files.
• Automatically synchronizing tags with file metadata without user interference.
• You work with a small set of tags, do your primary job, and don’t worry about metadata.
• Support searches using boolean expressions (AND/OR)
• Advanced Search helps you to locate assets with any set of query parameters (more than 100 properties) in conjunction with boolean “And/Or” operations and a set of conditions like: “Contains”, “Starts with”, “Matches”, etc.
• Saved Searches. Think of it as dynamic collections. Any time a picture with particular properties appears in the catalog, the collection will automatically grow, and you can view it with a single mouse click.
• Support hierarchical tags, with no limitation on nesting levels: categories, people, place, keywords, events, etc. With Lightroom, your limit is hierarchical keywords only.
• So, besides Photo and Video formats, our software supports PDF, BMP, PSD, PNG, GIF, Vector, Office, and Audio formats. More than 100 file types.
• Version Control. It ends the problem of work redone because you’ve lost your original versions!
• Send to Email and optimize images “on the fly.”

Lightroom benefits

• Lightroom has a superb built-in Camera RAW editor. However, we don’t offer Camera RAW editing capabilities as such. Daminion can read Camera RAW metadata, generate previews, and supports built-in JPEG previews. It also allows you to write metadata back to some Camera RAW formats.
• Mac version. Our solution is mainly for Windows. We understand that 50% of photographers are Mac users.
• Effective web-publishing. This function we will add in future versions of Daminion