FotoStation PRO
A fully customizable Digital Asset Management workstation, FotoStation PRO offers image editing features, data mining, workgroup collaboration, and over 70 sort options. Its extensive organizing capabilities allow you to append detailed text descriptions to images and perform multi-archive searches. Features like drag-and-drop image placement with auto-cropping make it especially useful in a newspaper or magazine environment.
Data mining is a key feature of FotoStation PRO, allowing the user to find images without formulating a specific search. It lets you hunt for appropriate images by using a "word list" that can locate all files with those words in a given IPTC text field, or by single keyword, date, or range of dates. You can assemble collections of images as named projects with complete project descriptions.
FotoStation PRO also indexes the contents of offline media such as DVDs, creating offline archives that are fully searchable. Image editing features include hue and saturation settings, curves, manual color balance adjustment, and a sophisticated noise reduction feature called SmartClean. Color management with ICC profiles is fully implemented. A start-up wizard makes it easy for new users, while experienced users can customize the interface according to their preferences.
Comment
FotoStation PRO is one of a new breed of image organizer that imposes an additional level of indexing on an existing collection. An alternative description of it might be "image reorganizer," as it can help to tame archives and make it easier to find pictorial content to illustrate published articles.
A cut-down edition called FotoStation Classic is also available, without the SmartClean and image editions features. For healthcare organizations, the vendor offers FotoStation PRO Clinical Edition which integrates with medical data.
Tech info
- OS: Windows XP onward; Mac OS X
- Price level: (Standalone versions) approx. $600
FotoWare
FotoWare is a software company based in Oslo, Norway, with subsidiaries in Germany and the UK. It was established in 1994 as a result of the growing demand to handle digital assets. Worldwide, it has sold several million licenses of its Digital Asset Management solutions.
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- FotoWare Cameleon
- Index Manager
- PhotoWeb
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