Professional Photography Display Software Developed By Professionals For Professionals

Photo Director Pro™ V6.0 is the most powerful and feature packed Professional Photographer's online gallery and sales software on the world market today - the process was designed by a professional photographer who listened to the myriad complaints made by photographers' customers from all over the world.

Photo Director Pro™ was developed by Tallgrass Software, based in Sydney, Australia and has professional photographer clients throughout the English speaking world. Our hosting servers operate both in the USA and Australia.

Photo Director Pro™ E-Commerce Software ( a product of Tallgrass Software Pty. Ltd.) has been developed by a software team including Tony McCormick (professional engineer and professional technical photographer) with over 30 years experience who is also a professional software designer with over 28 years of high end computing experience and software development.

As a photographer, our team leader had experienced all the problems that you, as a professonal photographer, also experience such as:

• Clients who want their proofs more urgently than ever;
• The costs and time delays in sending proofs to ALL interested parties;
• Clients who misorder the wrong prints and the unhappiness and costs that ensue;
• Clients who want to re-order prints from previous shoots and all the costs that follow;
• Clients who want to sort and compare images online - this need ranked very high in our research and came up again and again;
• Clients who want to make short lists of favorites - wishlists - and they want to save these lists for later retrieval or for sending to other family members or colleagues;
• Clients who want their families, friends and acquaintances to be able to see their images quickly after a shoot and online;
• Photographers who want an easily maintained, fast and E-Commerce enabled web site with your trading name, personal pages, contact details and pricing;
• Photographers who want a flexible E-Commerce website where your clients can buy with multiple payment options including "Send Cheque" and "On Account" - we found a strong aversion to "credit card online" transactions

We've successfully addressed all these isues and many more.

What Did We Do To Address These Needs?

We looked in depth at what we could do to address these and other needs that kept coming through strongly in our discussions with pro photographers around the world.

We believed that our years of experience designing top level world class data driven Business To Business and Business To Consumer software and websites could be adapted to pro photographers' problems.

The brief was clear:
Design professional software that would enhance and increase photographers' exposure and sales - including re-prints - and allow photographers to spend time doing what they're good at - image shooting and image preparation.

Essentially, we did three things:

• We designed this website to promote our software and show just some of the features and and to tell you how our system work;
• We designed two photographer's demonstration working sites - one at at www.horsepictures.com.au and another at www.australianflora.com.au. This is typical of what your clients would see in your own site. You can try buying prints on line to see how it works without incurring any charges.
• We designed a "white box" or "skeleton" site that can be quickly adapted to be used as your own website with changes to a few pages to reflect your ownership and contact details. This is what we offer to you as your own personalised E-Commerce Pro Photographer's website.

Your Site Runs On A Hosted System

To top it off, we designed the software as a Hosted System (the very latest trend in software) which runs on OUR server and you rent use of your website and pay by the month.

A Hosted System offers following benefits for you:

• You can trial your own personalised E-Commerce enabled website free for 30 days;
• You never need to upgrade software;
• You can share the use of our giant commercial SQL database to store the data you need about your customers and their images. This reduces costs;
• You can upload, manage, feature and sort images to your website from anywhere on the planet with Internet access;
• Professional network managers handle the security on your website;
• You can stop using the software at any time giving 30 days notice and NOT incur any further costs.