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What's new in Release 16

We've rolled out significant improvements to sharing: The share recipient will see a gorgeous new gallery view. Also we're providing more control via sort and delete options.

Wednesday, July 2, 2025
What's new in Release 15.3

After a large v15 release a couple months ago, this release has many smaller updates. Many are from customer feedback on that version's features changes, or bug fixes our team and customers have reported. Other additions include the introduction of color themes and download size choices for non-jpg files.

Friday, May 2, 2025
The 8 Most Common Digital Asset Management Challenges — And How DBGallery Solves Them

We asked ChatGPT 4o: What are the most common complaints and challenges organizations face with digital asset management (DAM). The top 8 are listed here, along with how DBGallery solves each.

Monday, March 31, 2025
Custom Prompts for AI-generated Descriptions

DBGallery’s AI-powered custom prompt feature allows users to generate tailored AI-generated desciption metadata. This enhances searchability, efficiency, and discoverability of digital assets.

Monday, March 3, 2025
What's new in Release 15

A listing of the additions to DBGallery released in February 2025,

Friday, February 7, 2025
Can AI Replace Digital Asset Management Systems?

AI and Digital Asset Management: Enhancement, Not Replacement

Monday, February 3, 2025
Heaps of Metadata, Zero Effort: DBGallery Does the Heavy Lifting

By simply uploading images, a significant amount of searchable data is automatically added to every photo.

Thursday, October 24, 2024
Unlocking the Power of AI in Digital Asset Management: DBGallery's Upcoming AI Enhancements

Here we present where DBGallery is going with AI, as well as cover its current list of AI capabilities.

Friday, September 13, 2024
Mastering AI Vision: Essential Best Practices for Custom Object Recognition Training

This post delves into essential best practices for dataset preparation and model training, offering insights that can significantly boost an object recognition model's accuracy, efficiency, and real-world applicability.

Monday, August 26, 2024
What's new in Release 14

A listing of the additions to DBGallery released in the spring of 2024,

Friday, May 24, 2024
Benefits of a multi-tenant DAM system

The surprising benefits of multi-tenancy in a digital asset management system.

Tuesday, January 2, 2024
What's new in Release 12.8

Our autumn 2023 release has lots of updates, both large and small. The most significant may be the new mobile phone-specific user experience.

Friday, December 1, 2023
Custom-trained AI object detection in DBGallery

Examples and real-world usage of custom-trained AI object detection in DBGallery

Wednesday, November 1, 2023
What's new in Release 12.7

Our summer release has performance tweaks and sports a new login page graphic.

Tuesday, July 11, 2023
What's new in Release 12.6

Our spring release includes a long requested addition to role and user management as well as dashboard widget additions.

Monday, April 24, 2023
21 advantages DBGallery offers over other digital asset management systems

A list of features rarely found in other digital asset management systems.

Friday, March 24, 2023
Campaign management in DBGallery

A look at how DBGallery is used for a variety of campaign types, from product marketing to non-profit fundraising.

Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Introducing new storage pricing for DBGallery

DBGallery's storage prices have dropped to just 33% of its previous costs.

Tuesday, November 15, 2022
DBGallery High Availability Architecture

High availability can be an absolute requirement for digital asset management in some company scenarios. Here we go over how DBGallery would fit into such an environment.

Wednesday, November 2, 2022
What's new in Release 12.5

Our autumn release includes a large number of small to medium size updates which make the system easier and more comfortable to use. Faster folder trees for large collections by using folder caching and improved icons for non-images are a couple examples.

Wednesday, October 26, 2022
What's new in Release 12.4

The past couple months have been very productive and there has been over a couple dozen enhancements. The one most users will feel are Preview and data edit performance improvements.

Tuesday, August 23, 2022
Single Sign-On (SSO) in DBGallery

DBGallery adds single sign-on (SSO) to its security and convenience capabilities.

Friday, June 17, 2022
What's new in Release 12.3

Primary enhancements are a global duplicates check and Slack integration.

Saturday, June 11, 2022
Avoiding Duplicate Images

Duplicate images in an image collection is not good. Never mind all the extra disk space it uses, more important is the confusion it can cause and the time it wastes. Here we'll get into why duplicates are evil and why with DBGallery there is never any reason to have them.

Friday, April 22, 2022
DBGallery's Metadata Capabilities

Metadata is extremely important to a digital asset management system. We feel there is no digital asset management system that is stronger when it comes to metadata capabilities, nor a DAM provider which has more respect for the importance of data. Here we list DBGallery numerous metadata capabilities.

Thursday, November 4, 2021
Activity Monitoring in DBGallery

How to view collection activity across DBGallery. Whether its a user adding a new image, deleting an image, adding a new folder, or an image being opened via a shared link. Where we cover the extensive audit trail capabilities of the system.

Thursday, September 2, 2021
Introducing a Free Tier and Pay-As-You-Go

We are happy to announce we are making DBGallery FREE for individuals and freelancers. We want everyone on Earth and beyond to be able or organize their files, find them in the blink of an eye, and avail of a full-featured digital asset management system.

Friday, May 14, 2021
The Business Value of Workflow in Digital Asset Management

Explore the value of workflow in digital asset management and the role of collaboration with a use-case study to illustrate the value.

Wednesday, May 12, 2021
The Importance of an Audit Trail in Digital Asset Management

You may have heard the term before, but what is an audit trail exactly? Learn more about how important it can be in a digital asset management system.

Friday, February 12, 2021
In-House Software vs SaaS: What's the Difference and Which Is Better?

Are you weighing in-house software vs SaaS, what's the difference, and which has more advantages for your business? We explain the pros and cons of each here.

Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Workflow Scenarios in Digital Asset Management

A look at workflow in a digital asset management system. Covered first is a simple scenario for small internal teams. Then one more complex that involves client review and approval, and notifications back and forth as they remotely collaborate.

Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Digital Asset Management Version Control: What Is It and Why Is It Important?

Digital Asset Management (DAM) version control is critical. Here we go into what is it and why is it important.

Friday, October 2, 2020
Recommended Keyword Tagging Practices

Keywording, aka tagging, in DAM and image management systems can be challenging, with a a myriad of possible approaches. Based on years of working with clients, this entry describes a number of recommended practices.

Thursday, September 10, 2020
Four Layers of Digital Asset Management

Modern digital asset management (DAM) systems are exceptionally complex products, requiring features and perfections at various levels. Here we’ve broken down these into four logical layers. Each layer builds on the other, and neither could exist without the other in a good DAM system.

Thursday, August 20, 2020
Introducing a Smarter Search for Your Image Collection

We’ve proudly integrated a smarter search feature within our image management system. Given multiple tags to search for DBGallery now prioritizes results based on how many keywords are in the images returned.

Sunday, December 1, 2019
Global Markers – Mapping Images across a Map

Being able to view images across a map can be a large value-add to an image collection.

Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Object Recognition

Object recognition uses AI to identify objects in a photo and auto-tag those photos to make finding them easier. Here we talk about object recognition in DBGallery and provide examples of objects recognized in photos.

Thursday, April 20, 2017
Launch of our public Object Recognition page

We are pleased to announce our public and extremely easy to use object recognition page. Simply drag and drop a photo onto the page and it will show the objects it finds there.

Friday, March 3, 2017
Understanding Access Permissions in Digital Asset Management (DAM)

The ability to set access permissions to ensure only the right people can perform various operations in an image collection is a DAM fundamental.

Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Benefits of opening your image collection to the web

Some worry about moving their digital assets away from their file servers or local computers. Having it on the web as many advantages, as we discuss in this here.

Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Ten Hard Realities of Photo Organization

Challenges of organizing a photo collection.

Saturday, February 20, 2016
Duplicate Photos Are Evil

Duplicate images across your collection is just not cool. Never mind all the extra disk space it uses, more important is the confusion it can cause and the time it wastes. Here we talk about the how DBGallery helps remove duplicates.

Friday, January 15, 2016