Just A Few Of The Advantages You Will Get By Renting Your Own Personalised Photo Director Pro™ E-Commerce Website.

Photo Director Pro™ Server and your own site built with Photo Director Pro™ Client address EVERY wish from both groups - you and your customers.

• Pro Software designed for the way you work More?
• Don't fork out hard earned cash. Rent your own personalised website More?
• Super fast Gallery and Event Based cutting edge E-Commerce without the huge initial cost. More?
• Upload, change, replace, sort or remove images that will show on your website from anywhere on the planet. More?
• You rent access so your software is NEVER out of date or needs upgrading or doesn't work on your computer. More?
• No more time consuming pasting images on pages and fiddling with HTML. More?
• Events and the associated images can remain on your system for up to a year so customers can re-order. More?
• Send images from any event to display in your Featured Portfolio area with the click of a mouse. More?
• Featured Portfolio images can be changed hourly, daily, weekly and so on. More?
• Uploading images is easy - the super Photo Director Pro Upload Server takes care of all thumbnail generation, sizing, cataloguing, sorting and presentation. More?
• Images from an event can be viewed by your customers within minutes of your shoot. More?
• Already have a website? No problem. The promotional and contact pages can be incorporated into your new Photo Director Pro™ E-Commerce website. More?
• The system prevents duplicate digital camera generated IDs from being loaded over each other. More?
• All your data, images, transactions and customer details are backed up by our servers every night.

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

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

• 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
• Clients who want to make lists of favorites - wishlists
• Clients who want their families, friends and acquaintances to be able to see their images quickly and online
• Photographers who want an easily maintained, fast and E-Commerce enabled web site with your trading name, personal pages 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"

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You don't have to buy anything. Ee provide your own personalised E-Commerce website and you pay a small monthly rental depending on the volume of stored images. Find out more?

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You can not only display and categorize pictures from hundreds of events, but you can select outstanding images to be shown in your online "portfolio" just by clicking a button. See how this looks at a demonstration site?

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You have total control of which images are shown in an online event display and in which order they are shown. You need to try this to see just how easy it is. What's more, you can log in via our very secure system and make changes or upload images from anywhere there is Internet access.

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When you buy software you are then on the "update" treadmill. This is where they ask you to pay for the things that should have been included in the first place. With renting software, we take care of all that. The software that runs your own personalised E-Commerce website is always up to date and is maintained by us.

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Almost all pro photographers' websites have pages where you have to insert the images by hand and then manage them using cut and paste. Once you get a lot of images it becomes impossible to manage and very time consuming. With Photo Director Pro™ you simply name the event and then start uploading via our "Upload Wizard. You can then rapidly sort, delete or add images as much as you like. You can manage images that were shot six months ago or one hour ago, with the same ease."

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You can leave images on your website for up to 12 months so customers can efficiently re-order without your having to sort through old orders and which prints they ordered last time.

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Your online portfolio is a display of your very best images from many events. After you upload images you can view an enlarged image online and if required, jut hit a button to have that image automatically display in your special portfolio area.

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To provide variety and provoke interest from your buying customers, you can move various combinations of images into your portfolio as many time as you like throughout the day or week. It's as easy as viewing an image and hitting a button.

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In simple terms, you ALWAYS upload and manage your images here at www.photodirector.com.au and your customers then view, sort and order images of various sizes from your own personalised E-Commerce website. Why are there different locations? Because this is a super server and your website runs on a much simpler server; what's more it means your customers will never see or know about www.photodirector.com.au. All they see is your own rented website.

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Noticed how impatient customers are these days. We have! Just get your memory card to the nearest computer or notebook and start uploading. Your customers, their families and their friends can see the images as soo as you upload. The amount of time taken to upload will depend on your Internet speed.

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The Photo Director Pro™ server system will prevent duplicate image numbers generated by digital cameras from being uploaded. That way there will NEVER be any confusion by you or your clients as to what they've ordered. Prefixes are easy to bulk change in PhotoShop if you find you're getting repeats as your camera starts counting again after 10,0000 or whatever the limit for your model. Most digital cameras allow you to change the prefix for all images at some point so you should never get duplicates if you manage your cameras well.