<sect2 id="using-dam-workflow"> <title>A Typical DAM Workflow</title>

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            <para>
                Import images from camera, card reader or scanner. As long as the images are stored on the camera media, you can use that as temporary backup.
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            <para>
                RAW are converted to DNG and stored away into an RAW archive.
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        </listitem>

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            <para>
                Rate and cull, write-back metadata to the DNG archive.
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        </listitem>

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            <para>
                Make a backup &eg; on external drive, and optical medium, or a tape.
            </para>
        </listitem>

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            <para>
                Tag, comment, and geo-locate.
            </para>
        </listitem>

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            <para>
                Edit and improve photographs.
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        </listitem>

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            <para>
                For layered editing use external applications. Back in &digikam;, re-apply the metadata, which was probably lost or curtailed by the other applications.
            </para>
        </listitem>

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            <para>
                Run the routine backup with following data-integrity checks
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        </listitem>

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            <para>
                Protect processed images for copyrights with Digital Watermarking. Export to web galleries, slide shows, MPEG encode, contact sheets, printing &etc;
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        </listitem>

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