ACDSee Pro 3 builds on its reputation as a leading viewer, browser and organizer with new advanced speed capabilities in the editing and online stages. For example, the program’s unique process mode integrates two highly prized features – nondestructive image editing and precise pixel-level editing – into one seamless application.

“ACDSee Pro 3 is geared around saving time and offers photographers the ability to customize their own workflow and speed up the process of preparing and sharing their photos,” said Cam Carmichael, product manager for ACD Systems, who noted that more than 10,000 professional photographers worldwide participated in the beta test program. “The Pro 3 structure makes it easy for users to achieve their desired results quickly and efficiently.”

Introduced in early 2006, ACDSee Pro has historically been designed around mode-based operations, so this new, updated version will be familiar to current ACDSee Pro users. The software emphasizes four areas of activity – manage, view, process and online – that optimizes each step in the photography workflow in one application.

“I’m on assignment overseas often and the last thing I want to worry about is my workflow,” said Peter Pereira, a photojournalist and 4SEE Photo Agency photographer. “I’ve been a longtime ACDSee Pro user and the latest version is top-notch image software. I’ve tried them all and this is my favorite.”

Manage: Digital asset management
ACDSee Pro 3 provides photographers with the capability to manage digital assets to their own specifications using both folders and metadata. The manage mode speeds the process of browsing, cataloging, retrieving, and presenting collections with flexible time-saving tools. New additions to the robust sharing capabilities allow users to distribute their creative work effortlessly through SMTP-enabled e-mail applications such as Gmail™ and Yahoo!® Mail Plus, and publish images to their Web sites via a new FTP uploader.

As in previous versions of ACDSee Pro, ACDSee Pro 3 supports the management of more than 100 file types and will be regularly updated to support the latest RAW formats as new camera models are released.

View: Unparalleled image viewing
In view mode, images can be seen in full size at unparalleled speeds. Photographers can quickly scan through selected images with click advance or auto advance features, or flip between images using the new filmstrip window and remain oriented within a large group of files.

Process: Dynamic imaging processing
ACDSee Pro 3’s new process mode integrates nondestructive image editing and precise pixel-level editing into one seamless application. Users can take advantage of the new mode to dynamically adjust images of any format, from RAW files to TIFFs and JPEGs, and easily complete both global nondestructive adjustments and pixel-level editing on any image in one intuitive workflow. Unlike other programs that make users wait while changes apply, ACDSee Pro 3 allows users to see the outcome of their adjustments in real time.

Online: Photo sharing with free storage
Photographers can easily store and share images online without leaving the application in ACDSee Pro 3’s new online mode, which connects users to a free 2 GB account on the ACDSee Online Web site. The online mode is a convenient way to create, store, share and manage albums and access images when away from the desktop computer. ACDSee Pro 3 image folders can quickly and easily be dragged and dropped directly on the secure, password-protected online storage space. The ACDSee Online site, which is powered by Amazon Web Services™, the same secure infrastructure that backs Amazon.com and its affiliated sites, offers a hierarchical folder tree structure so images can be easily organized.

Availability
ACDSee Pro 3 is available for a free 30-day trial and for purchase at $169.99 (USD) by visiting www.acdsee.com. Registered owners of ACDSee Pro, Pro 2 and Pro 2.5 are eligible to upgrade for less than $90.00 (USD).

About ACD Systems International Inc.
Headquartered in British Columbia since 1993, ACD Systems International Inc. is one of the world’s leading developers and marketers of digital imaging software, including the renowned ACDSee image management tool and Canvas, an advanced technical illustration and graphics program. ACD Systems has millions of consumer and business users and more than 33,000 corporate customers, including many Fortune 500 companies. For further details, please visit www.acdsee.com.

ACD and ACDSee are trademarks of ACD Systems International Inc. and may be registered in Canada, the United States, the European Union, Japan or certain other jurisdictions. Canvas is a trademark of ACD Systems of America, Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Trademarks of ACD Systems of America, Inc. are used under license by ACD Systems International Inc. or its subsidiaries.

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This new functionality for Alamy contributors means that Image Keyworder is currently the only commercially available software that has been tailor designed to accommodate the specific annotation requirements of Alamy. It will help you to work on batches of images, speeding up the workflow for getting their images online.

Mr. Yvan Cohen (Director at OnAsia ) said that Alamy was extremely supportive throughout this process and he hopes that their contributors will see the benefits of the customized functionality

You probably know that keywording can be a very “painful” and slow process. Having grown out of OnAsia’s experience as a professional keywording service, Image Keyworder also offers users a number of features aimed at combining comprehensive keywording with productivity. Groups of images can be processed in batches, templates can be created and saved for repeat image types and keywords can be selectively added and removed from sets of images.

Image Keyworder can be downloaded for a free 30-day trial from www.imagekeyworder.com. The trial includes full functionality and access to Image Keyworder’s comprehensive built-in thesaurus.

An Image Keyworder license for two computers costs just US$ 79.99 including a 12-month thesaurus subscription valued at US$ 39.99.

For more information contact support @ imagekeyworder.com

If you have a problem to manage your images or vector files, this could be the solution. This tool will help you to upload your images from a digital camera to photo stock (of course, after you “touch” them with image editing tools).
After you edit your images (Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Gimp, etc) and before you upload them to photo stock, you’ll need (at least) to add keywords, set image names and small description. This is the easiest way to do this. Especially if you have similar images which belong to the same category.

With Cushy Stock you will be able to track your images so you won’t make mistakes with double uploads. I tried it myself and I’m very satisfied. By the way program is so fast that I’m completely surprised.

Unfortunately trial version will give you a chance to upload only one file per program start so you won’t see his great potential. This is not so big problem because buying Cushy Stock is a piece of cake. You can buy it for only $49.95 and you can pay it via Pay Pal, Moneybookers, Credit Card, Phone, and Fax or via Wire Transfer.

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Complete features list is not so small:

• complete stock photography workflow automation
• images cataloging
• associating keywords with catalog categories
• vast embedded catalog with keywords sets
• ability to create own catalog categories and add new keywords
• viewing images from every catalog category
• displaying all images available at the specified photo stock (images are grouped by statuses)
• searching for photos by keywords
• viewing thumbnails of all images on your computer
• ability to set and update statuses for every image and every stock
• ability to set an image title, copyright and description
• adding, deleting and editing image keywords
• adding keywords from categories an image is assigned to
• synchronization of keywords for different images
• automatic keywords generation
• ability to view EXIF, XMP and IPTC image tags
• grouping by EXIF tag
• store status info into IPTC tag
• calendar view
• displaying information on every photo stock
• showing images grouped by statuses
• basic file operations (copy, move, delete, rename)
• working with Model release
• automated image upload to photo stocks via FTP protocol
• automated tracking of image history after it’s been renamed or moved to another location
• vector EPS format support
• RAW format support
• full screen viewing mode
• ability to install the application on portable devices, e.g. USB Flash Drive or USB hard drive
• EPS to JPEG conversion
• ZIP archive support
• deleting EXIF data from an image
• financial information
• easy and useful 4 steps wizard
• Windows Vista support
• And much more…

Today I found that I don’t need to do anything with this because Fotolia programmers were worthy and they made something for us. They call it MyFotolia Space. It is a service (based on Fotolia API) made for all contributors who will help you to create your own space for presenting your content in a customized environment. You can select a template, change the banner, select which photos and galleries are displayed on your Myfotolia homepage, and implement Google Analytics to track your visitors… Fotolia has prepared everything so that you can display and advertise your own photo galleries for your relatives and customers. Here is a simple example for you to review: http://my.fotolia.com/mangia/

Why should I use this feature?

Well if you still don’t get it, the point is to promote your own portfolio and to collect potential buyers and send them directly to your images. So, this is an excellent advertising place for all your work. Place your link in forum signatures, present them on forums, chat rooms, etc. (Beware, some of these ideas are sometimes treated like a SPAM).

It is easy to create your own gallery when images are already online. You can change colors and arrange your own photo page. Also, you can upload your own banner.

How does it work?

MyFotolia is very easy to set up:

• Go on my Fotolia Sign up Page
• Just pick a name for your Myfotolia and enter your fotolia login and password info
• Customize your Myfotolia (images, galleries, template, banners, description etc…)
• Promote your Myfotolia by promoting your own fotolia url http://my.fotolia.com/YOU

Unfortunately, I found some bugs and I will inform programmers about them. When you go to My Settings and you want to change something, be careful because default language is a German and before you press “Save my details” you’ll need to change it to your language… If you want German as you default language then ignore this warning.

Also, module for creating galleries doesn’t work and it is impossible to use it.

Creating your own gallery on your own web site is not an easy task. When choosing hosting for your new web site please first make sure it meets the minimum requirements you need. Even though some hosting companies say that they meet the minimum requirements for the software they may still limit your hosting in other ways. Best way to compare hosting companies is to visit Web Hosting Choice. On this advertisement free web site, you can choose the right web host for your personal or business site. Site is focused on a search able directory that will let you find web hosting plans suitable for a small site or for a large e-commerce website. You can search by different criteria (price, setup fee, bandwidth, storage, etc). Also, this site is not only a directory. You’ll find a complete Learning center so if you don’t understand some words, you’ll find them with complete explanation.

After you choose a quality web hosting, you can start uploading your images and create your galleries. My site was made on this way. I always wanted my own gallery and I don’t like ads on galleries

Best regards and don’t forget to visit Web Hosting Choice.