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Re-brandied from Digital Photos Online as the software has now gone a lot further from just handling jpeg images to produce a fully customizable online media management, cataloguing, presentation, and distribution solution. It now handles all image and media files from RAW or PDFs to movie formats. ProMediaserve has evolved over the years to have a full and intuitive feature set essential for digital photographers needing to present and send their large digital files to their clients anywhere in the world instantly.
- Simple and fast - no need for any html or database programming the service works straight form your web browser and takes minutes to do a basic set up.
- Uploading and downloading media all happen from a simple web browser.
- No need to modify the look of your web site or portfolio pages - your ProMediaserve account carries your logo and can be customized to the color scheme of your web site.
- The software adds adds image archives, a light table, and an orders cart for controlled downloads to a web site simply and cheaply.
- Visitors can then search, select & download image files, or set up carts to order prints or other products like calendars or postcards.
- Highly secure storage and back up of all of high resolution images and other digital data files.
Shooting digital images or scanning images to a hard drive demands way of working and organization for photographers. The computer has become an important part of a photographers equipment and the Internet provides the ideal medium for distributing their images. As the photos are no longer in filing cabinets and are now on a computer, why not have the clients search and select their own choice of images through the web? Working like stock agency websites with a dynamic search and display, coupled with a sophisticated download system, photographers no longer have to guess what their clients are looking for in their stock of images or a shoot. With slides or even images scanned on a CD ROM, photographers would have to try to guess the clients requirements, add the postage charges, then the client may hold on to the original images for a while and may not find their requirements anyway.
If a photographer takes the digital route it would make sense that images are then stored in a database and made available via the internet. Then clients search, select and download their choices and it is all tracked to who has taken what and for what use. Price or rights use calculators can be used to work out the license for rights automatically, with special client access and automatic downloads permitted using private accounts.
Why use a hosted system? Serving your own images from your own computer is not practical even with high speed broad band connections. A photographer serving his images from his office server requires knowledge about running a web server and firewalls for security issues plus have a fast up connection. Databases storing and showing small images and thumbnails is relatively simple, the problem comes around for the e-commerce and controlled download side. ProMediaserve was designed to take the hassle away from getting images online, offer secure backups and all for a minimal cost of hosting.
The internet is changing the way the end users of the photography find and choose images they then publish and pay for. They expect to find and have use of images instantly. If your customer cannot find a product he will not buy it and the web is the ultimate customer empowering environment. The client who clicks the mouse decides everything and it is so easy to move on and are just a mouse click away from another photographer where they may get what they are looking for instantly. Hopefully, by using hosted image management solutions such as ProMediaserve it will ensure web site visitors will be able to search and find images and not go elsewhere.
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