Extensive Feature List

The whole software system was developed BY professional photographers FOR professional photographers.
Photographers don't have to buy expensive software - they can simply rent usage of a very powerful, but personalised system that their customers view as their own personalised web site.
Pro Photographers who want an easily maintained, fast and E-Commerce enabled web site with their trading name, personal pages and pricing can have it rapidly, cheaply and without all the normal development costs.
Photographers can upload, change, replace or remove images from anywhere on the planet where there is Internet access and images are available to customers and their friends and relatives within minutes of upload. All access to Photo Director Pro Upload Server is via secure web browser.
No software needs to be installed on a photographer’s computer – nothing gets out of date or corrupted; all photographer access is via ‘J2EE’ secure web access.
Pro Photographers no longer need to prepare valuable time consuming pages of images, nor keep them up to date nor remove older images as the site becomes too big.
Even if a photographer tries to upload duplicate image Picture IDs the Photo Director Pro Upload Server system will warn and prevent duplication although other photographers might use identical SKU series.
An image may be added to and used in multiple ‘events’ or ‘albums’ without conflict.
The photographer can look through his/her images and flag outstanding photos to be displayed in the ‘Portfolio’ section of his/her website.
Photos flagged for ‘Portfolio’ viewing can be changed as often as you wish.
Uploading images is easy - after entering the name of a shoot or event, images are uploaded one at a time by the photographer or a junior assistant and the Photo Director Pro Upload Server takes care of all thumbnail generation, sizing, cataloguing, sorting and presentation.
Proofs of an event or shoot can be viewed very quickly after the shoot by interested parties and stakeholders such as all agency staff, wedding guests, and absent relatives.
Even if the pro photographer already has his/her own website, the photographer specific pages - such as contact details, 'about us' info, home page and services offered – we can easily incorporate all this into a new dynamic Photo Director Pro Client web site designed to be individual and look like your own.
The Photo Director Pro Upload Server system automatically senses vertical (Portrait) format and horizontal (Landscape) images during upload.
Photographers can sort the order in which images will be displayed. As an example he/she might want all ‘Landscape’ format images together and all ‘Portrait’ images together.
The photographer can nominate how many images per page will be shown when uploading to the Photo Director Pro Upload Server master site as well as on his/her own website by a simple ‘select’ button.
Images can be left on the Photo Director Pro Upload Server for one year for re-orders by clients.
Photographers can search for events or albums or even images, by date and original time of shoot or even by which camera was used.
Events and shoots dating back many months are easy to search for and find.
Photographers can set their offered print sizes, prices and currency preferred on the Photo Director Pro Upload Server system regardless of other photographers’ print sizes and prices. These will then be reflected on the photographer's own website.
Customers can buy prints on line using their photographer’s sizes and prices.
With your own E-Commerce website, your customers can generate business while you're out doing what you do best - photographing.
Photographers can maintain their digital camera Picture IDs with an absolute guarantee that they won’t be confused with images from another photographer using the same numbering system – Photo Director Pro Upload Server attaches a Unique ID to each Picture ID so there will be no duplicates.
No more incorrect prints ordered because of confusion over Picture IDs or due to transcription errors.
All uploaded images are perfectly safe from theft. The users can never download or email your images from the site. The IP address of anyone trying is captured to a database.
The photographer can see how many times an album or event has been visited online and can even see how many times each image has been viewed as an enlargement.
The Photo Director Pro Upload Server site will feature lists and access to services of use to photographers such as equipment sales, wedding venues, celebrants, useful tips and so on.
Because both Photo Director Pro Upload Server and and your own website are hosted systems – SAAS – no software ever has to be loaded or upgraded by you the photographer or your clients.
Photographers can upload and use the Photo Director Pro Upload Server for 14 days free to see if they like the way it works.
There is no capital outlay – all payments are subscriptions so they are fully tax deductible.
Photo Director Pro Upload Server stores full statistics on site visitors and their location and much, much more for Photographers to study and use in marketing.
Due to the fact that the Photo Director Pro Upload Server and your own website are SAAS rented services, all software upgrades, maintenance and security management is done in one place by the software designers - it's always up to date.
Time consuming and often confusing phone orders are a thing of the past.
The costs to rent your own photographer’s client site are quite low and start at $40.00 per month - the maximum charge is $60.00 month for heavy usage sites with over 2000 images stored online.
The photographer can cancel site rental at any time and all their images and related data will be destroyed. If they’ve registered a domain name, it remains theirs.
The photographer has available a 40 alpha description of each album or event for easy identification. The album will then feature a Name or Description (such as Alec and Alma’s wedding 11-11-2006) and a date uploaded, however photographers and clients can still search by date shot, date and time shot, camera used or Picture ID.
Photographers do not need to use camera generated Picture IDs different from other photographers.
The Photographer can 'login protect' some albums and make them available ONLY to clients on a predefined list, such as advertising agency staff. The default is to allow public viewing.
When uploading images, they are not available for clients to see until the Photographer ‘activates’ the event at the end of uploading.
The cost of preparing and producing CD albums, proofs and sending CDs and proofs to each stakeholder is a thing of the past.
If photographers prepare their images according to our instructions the resulting full size images are of outstanding quality and load quickly when viewed on the Internet.
Images, albums and events uploaded during the trial period are available to be viewed by a photographer’s clients if the photographer proceeds to order his/her own domain based website from us.