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What is ImageFolio?
ImageFolio is a digital photo gallery, digital video gallery, digital asset management, digital document management, and e-commerce software product suite, currently installed on thousands of websites or intranets, including many Fortune 500 companies, most major universities and government organizations.
ImageFolio fully automates the process of viewing, publishing, maintaining, and marketing your web-based photo gallery, video gallery, stock photography store, art store, centralized digital asset management portal, product image procurement center, vendor graphic procurement center, digital media storage, or e-commerce store. ImageFolio helps organizations by providing a secure repository that facilitates the creation, management, organization, distribution and monetization of digital assets.
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There are three ImageFolio products currently available; ImageFolio Commerce, ImageFolio Pro and ImageFolio Lite. To determine which one will suit your needs best, read below.
ImageFolio Commerce |
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ImageFolio Pro |
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| Use ImageFolio Commerce to: • sell stock photography • sell photographic and art prints • sell movies, videos, and music • sell clipart, icons, and graphics • sell digital file downloads |
Use ImageFolio Pro to: • create and share a photo gallery • create and share a video gallery • create and share a Flash® gallery • share files with web users • batch upload & batch download |
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ImageFolio Lite |
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| • ImageFolio starter product • build a JPEG photo gallery • learn to use ImageFolio • fully customizable look & feel • IPTC standard compatible • fast, friendly and affordable |
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Demonstration
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| ImageFolio Lite - Frontend Gallery - Backend Administration Area |
ImageFolio Pro - Frontend User Area - Backend Administration Area |
ImageFolio Commerce - Frontend Storefront - Backend Administration Area |
Do you want to try the demo without any restrictions? If yes, please contact us for an unrestricted demonstration of ImageFolio. Unrestricted demonstration is based upon ImageFolio Pro. |
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Configuration
- Support for different currencies
- Sell photographic prints, stock photography, artwork, clipart, icons, graphics, flash videos, mpeg or quicktime videos, mp3s, digital file downloads, service products, tangible products or a mix of all
- Global store pricing or based on category possible
- Choose between radio fields or pull-down menu site-wide
- Thumbnail border options: none, slide like, keyline.
- Settings for your own color scheme
- Wishlist function
- Searchwords can be viewed and linked to new searches
- Option of "Show Similar" link on product page which returns similar products
- Hiding of Categories/Subcategories possible through the admin area for development or secure access
- Uploading of Category image trough the admin area
- Specify maximum search result possible
- Full IPTC support:
- editing through admin area
- create your own fields
- searching of data
- option to show underneath thumbnails
- editing through admin area
- Anti image Leech making it impossible to steal your image links (will return access denied image if accessed from other domain
- Image watermarking (transparent background 24 bit PNG or GIF) in any area of the photo you wish, with option to cache watermarked images for quick access
Taxation Options
- No tax
- Tax by state/province/country
- Flat tax
Shipping Options
- No shipping
- Based on number of items
- Shipping by weight
- Shipping by price
- Max package weight setting (divide in multiple packages if you go over)
- Handling charge (will always be added to every package)
- Setup your own list of couriers the customer can choose from or:
- Use UPS system to calculate shipping cost based on weight, zipcode. Customer can choose from the options you select like overnight, ground, etc. (USA only)
- Choose countries that your customers can order from
- Use UPS system to calculate shipping cost based on weight, zipcode. Customer can choose from the options you select like overnight, ground, etc. (USA only)
You will either need to have a merchant account set up with your bank or, alternatively, you can set up a business PayPal (http://www.paypal.com/) account and allow PayPal to accept your customers credit cards on your behalf. With PayPal you have a bank account that the money gets immediately deposited into.
If you do establish a merchant account with a bank, you can either process your credit cards manually using the software or terminal provided by your bank, or you can setup an account with AuthorizeNet (http://www.authorize.net/) and process credit cards automatically in real time.
- Gateway options (more then one can be used at the same time to give customer the option!):
- ImageFolio Commerce's own gateway (if you can process the CC yourself)
- PayPal
- AuthorizeNet
- Link Point
- Plug 'N Pay
- fax/phone/check
- ImageFolio Commerce's own gateway (if you can process the CC yourself)
- After these payment gateways verify the payment, the order will be written the ImageFolio Commerce database (unique!!)
- PayPal is integrated with ImageFolio Commerce and the only thing required to set this up with ImageFolio is your PayPal email address. Once you plug that in, it just works. The user will then fill out the checkout form on your site, then after clicking submit, they will be transfered over to PayPal to pay using their PayPal account. The order still gets logged to ImageFolio's order database and you will receive emails from both PayPal and ImageFolio for each and every order.
- Automated customer account creation process
- Optional automated log-in for customers via cookies
- Customer address book lets customers select any addresses they have on file during the checkout process
- Checkout automatically fills in customer's contact and shipping information
- Customers can create their own product wishlists, save their wishlists, and/or email wishlists to their colleagues, bosses, spouses, etc.
- Lost password finder feature
- Ability to view order status and review past orders
- Customers can view order status and review past orders
- Customers and site owners both receive order confirmations/invoices by email
- Credit card numbers are optionally stored encrypted on your server using a proprietary encryption system
- Credit card numbers are optionally NOT sent via email
- Admin ability to:
- view, modify, and delete orders
- print orders
- print invoices
- view decrypted credit card numbers
- perform fraud checks - address mapping, phone number verification, address verification, area code check, zip code check
- view, modify, and delete orders
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User / Gallery Features
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Lightbox Manager ImageFolio's Lightbox is a function in ImageFolio that lets users collect their favorite images or files (not just photographs) for use in projects, sharing with friends or colleagues, for personal viewing and downloading, etc. Think of it as an Add to Bookmarks or Add to Favorites. The Lightbox Manager gives users control over the files they collect to their lightbox. Nobody else can see a user's lightbox, only the user him/herself, unless that user sends a lightbox to someone else. Here is what each user can do:
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User Registration with Customizable User Database If you enable the Multi-User Mod, and have set up a default group, users can register themselves to gain access to your ImageFolio gallery. You can customize the user registration database/signup form to fit your needs. Do you need to know their birthday, make and model of car, hobbies, or pet names? No problem, you can do it. Note: You do not have to require user registration for gallery access. This feature, like all other ImageFolio features, is completely optional. |
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Lots of Skins and Skin Configuration Options (8 new, 10 total skins) In ImageFolio, a skin is a theme or page design. Each skin is unique and has it's own configuration file, set of HTML templates, and images. You can modify existing skins to create your own custom skin using the duplicate function in your Admin Area Skins Manager. Skin names are:
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Page Customizaton / User Self Configuration Options
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Global Header and Footer Option
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Common Keywords Page Keywords are extracted from your images on each Rebuild Index. Commonly found keywords are then used to create a page of linked search keywords in your gallery. Keywords are displayed in alphabetical order and sectioned into five columns. Approximate image counts resulting from a search are shown next to each keyword so the user will know in advance how many search results to expect. Users can click any keyword to quickly perform a search. See it here: http://if4.imagefolio.com/?globalkeywords=1 |
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Improved Image Protection Along with ImageFolio's current watermarking and image leech protection, ImageFolio now offers the following optional image protection:
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All Mods (Plug-Ins) Now Included In previous versions these were sold as add-on products -- not anymore. Everything you see in our demo is included. Our demo utilizes the following:
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Administrative Features
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Easy Server Setup, Installation, and Configuration
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Skins Manager
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Batch Uploading, Thumbnailing, and Preview Image Creation ImageFolio has the built-in ability (using our own product ImageConvert) to create thumbnails and preview images, in the quality and size of your choice, when you batch upload your source JPEG, TIFF, EPS, PDF, PSD, BMP, GIF, PICT and other files. You don't have to install any third party software to make this work and you don't need to be on a dedicated server. ImageFolio is currently the only server-based image gallery software product offering a built-in solution for this. All other products on the market require that you install ImageMagick* or GD2 and most don't even offer batch uploading and processing. ImageFolio can also optionally apply watermarks to your images. Note: ImageMagick is also supported by ImageFolio, if you prefer to use it. |
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Statistical Overview Each time you visit the admin home page, you'll see stats, including total users, total groups, total admins, total files, total categories, total common keywords, total disk usage, operating system, last backup date, last rebuild time, etc. |
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Disk Usage Function Shows the total disk usage for ImageFolio broken down by category. You can quickly see which categories are utilizing the most space on your server's hard drive. |
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View Users and Groups Function Shows a list of all current users and groups and their respective permissions, usernames, and passwords. Also included in this function is a batch group change option that allows you to change which group a user belongs to. You can change one or all users at the same time. |
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Demonstration/Tutorial Mode When setting up a new administrator or modifying an existing one, you have the option to set their account to demo/tutorial mode. The administrator will have access to all functions but no changes are saved. This is very useful for showing colleagues/friends or educating employees. |
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Browser-based Configuration This is a huge new feature. No need to edit any more text files and worry about screwing up line endings. It is now all done via the Administration Area and it's incredibly easy to use and make changes. |
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General Features
- Supports any file type including JPG, GIF, PDF, MP4, BMP, WMF, PICT, DOC, PNG, ZIP, Quicktime, Flash, MPEG, MP3, and many more. You can add new media types anytime you want, even if they are new and were released after this product.
- ImageFolio's Media Indexer builds your database for you. You do not have to enter any image information.
- You can create your thumbnails using any third-party thumbnailer or ImageFolio's built-in thumbnailer.
- Scalable! Supports unlimited images and movies. If it slows down, upgrade to the MySQL version.
- ImageFolio supports unlimited categories and subcategories, unlimited levels deep.
- Uses HTML templates for layout and design. There are templates for each section of your gallery, the home page, the thumbnail page, the preview page, the login page, the registration page, the postcard page, the rating page, and many more. Templates can be edited using any standard web page editor, a text editor, or a web browser.
- Each category can be made to look unique or all pages can use the same default template. You control fonts, columns, colors, borders, messages, titles, navigation images, information display, and more.
- You set the number of pictures to show per page and how many columns to use.
- Optionally displays file name, type, size, date added, and captions beneath thumbnail images
- Add new content whenever you want. Simply upload new content to your server and ImageFolio takes care of the rest.
- Optional built in image protection can watermark your photos, not allow a site visitor to right-click on your images and steal your content, hide the URL of images to prevent leeching, and mask an image using a transparent pixel overlay.
- If you have many pictures in a category, ImageFolio automatically spans the pictures across multiple pages with links to jump between them.
- Automatic navigation generation of previous and next category links, previous and next pages, previous and next images.
- Supports SSI 'include' tags to include any file in any template
- Supports ExecCGI tags to include any result from another cgi-script, such as ad banner software
- Categories added within the past 'x' number of days or designated as new. You decide how many days old as new
- A Newly Added images section shows users what's been added in the past 'x' number of days
- A Random Images section pull images from every category randomly, and displays them
- Keyword search engine lets users search for media by keyword, category, or filename
- Browser-based password protected administration area lets multiple users build and maintain your gallery. Through this interface, users can add/modify/delete categories, upload thumbnails and linked media, add/modify/delete users, add keywords/thumbnail captions/image captions, and more.
- Manual or Automated slideshows gives your visitors control over the viewing experience. You control the delay between images.
- No typing or database maintenance is necessary Simply FTP your media using any FTP utility or upload files through ImageFolio's browser-based administration area.
- Files can be sorted by date, filename, hits, rates, random.
- Category listings and search results can be cached, based on your preferences, for faster displaying/sorting and active websites.
- Thumbnail Island: Put a thumbnail on any page of your site
- Visitors can set their own preferences (Sorting, Thumbs per Page, Skin, Navigation (text or graphical), Thumbnail Layout (horizontal or vetical), etc.)
- ImageFolio keeps a log file of all user searches and downloads.
- Skins. Skins. Skins. Easily make complete modifications to your templates and share them with others. ImageFolio comes with 10 skins. Also included are layered PhotoShop (PSD) files. With these you can easily modify the text of the buttons for translation and other purposes.
- ImageFolio has, in addition to the back-end administration, a front-end administration area. You can now maintain your gallery while browsing the gallery. You see your changes live and "on the fly".
- ImageFolio Pro allows you to have a thumbnail image, full-size preview file, and a third high-resolution downloadable file.
- ImageFolio offers catgory page spanning. If you have dozens, or even hundreds, of subcategories, it doesn't make sense to list them all on one page. You can span the pages and list 'x 'amount per page. You decide what 'x' is.
- IPTC standard compliant editor and reader allows you to embed data objects (fields and values) within the header portion of a binary image and retrieve that information on the fly for display with your images or for use in searches. Cross compatibility with Adobe� Photoshop and 140 other image editors.
- Custom IPTC fields allows you to replace the field name with anything you like. Example: "Car Color", "Model", "Build Year", etc. These fields are also searchable as keywords with ImageFolio's search engine.
- IPTC information can be displayed under thumbnails and images. You specify which IPTC fields can be searched and/or displayed
- ImageFolio's built-in ratings system prevents the same IP address (person) from voting twice.
- ImageFolio's built-in hit tracking system prevents the same IP address (person) from hitting twice.
- Each image's search keywords are displayed and linked back to the search engine, allowing your site visitors to perform a global search against the database by clicking on a keyword for the file being viewed.
- A "Find Similar" link allows your site visitors to find pictures that are similar to the one currently being viewed.
- ImageFolio's new anti-leech technology prevents would-be leechers from figuring out the URL to, or linking to, your digital assets.
- Optional watermarking of preview images with your logo, in desired location, tiled or not tiled. Watermarked images can then be saved in cache for quick access the next time an image is displayed. We recommend using 24 bit PNG formatted images for watermarks, but GIFs will also work.
- ImageFolio's IFRAME integration feature allows you to display a live, and continually updating, thumbnail image, with file information and link to the source file, anywhere on your site.
- ImageFolio optionally offers HTML page caching for high traffic sites. This relieves server stress and improves speed up to 90%.
- ImageFolio's password protection function allows you to password protect your gallery categories.
- For those with a lot of categories, ImageFolio lets you display your categories in 3 columns, instead of 2. You choose between 1, 2, or 3 category columns.
- A Top Hits button will sort all of your gallery files from the most downloaded to the least downloaded.
- A Top Rated button will sort all of your gallery files from the highest rated to the lowest rated.
- An administrative function supports the uploading of a category thumbnail image through your browser, to be displayed next to a category name.
- Move and/or rename categories and files with ease.
- Thumbnail images and file information are always aligned correctly, no matter what the size of the thumbnail image is.
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Worried About Security?
ImageFolio has several ways to protect your assets.
1. Watemarking - ImageFolio's optional watermarking allows images to be watermarked with your desired logo, either on the fly, or stored in cache. Your original file is never used for the watermarking, only copies.
2. Right click suppression. Users who try to right click to save an asset will not be able to.
3. IE toolbar suppression. Users on Internet Explorer for Windows will not have an available toolbar with the usual Save, Print, etc.
4. Transparent pixel overlay. If users are able to circumvent the right click protection, the only thing they will be saving is a 1x1 pixel transparent gif.
5. ImageLeech protection. Users who try to view your source code to steal the URL of your assets will only see a URL to a cgi-script and not the asset itself. If they try to load this URL from their website or directly through the browser, the only thing that will appear is a warning or a file not found error.
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