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Published 01/08/2013
ProSelect and ProSelect Pro from
TimeExposure.com
In a nutshell: Pro Presentation, Sales & Workflow software
ProSelect is designed to make it easy to run a professional and profitable in-person photography sales session using a projector, big screen TV or even your computer screen. Pitched mainly at professional portraiture studios, ProSelect allows you to easily show and sell your work, be it images, canvases, framed and matted prints, press printed products (such as birth announcement cards), collages or even digital books.
Rather than hopping between programs to get the job done, ProSelect includes a browser, slideshow, ordering system, proofing tool, montage/layout designer, and production system, offering a clean and elegant design that should impress your clients. You can also show your wall art at actual size (when using a projector or big screen TV) as well as design and show everything from a single piece of wall art to complete framed wall galleries, all exactly to scale using your client's walls as a backdrop.
Indeed its makers go as far as to suggest that many customers have witnessed a 50-300% increase in sales and profits off the back of using it.
As discussed, the all-in-one nature of the program is what should hold appeal to photographers looking to streamline their workflow and increase their sales. For example there's the ability to present your images, make notes, take orders and record client details all within the same program and store them in one album specific to that job, so no need to juggle various bits of paper with scribbled notes on.
ProSelect Pro differs from the standard ProSelect package in that it includes more frames, tethered shooting support, unlimited wall gallery designs, book building and a 'high-resolution production module', the last of which is aimed at dramatically reducing production time. This version allows photographers to work through a check list of ordered images or composites, finalise picture crops, open images in Photoshop to undertake any necessary retouching then, when ready, click the 'Make High Res Images' button and sit back whilst ProSelect Pro automates Photoshop (Photoshop CS2 or newer required) to produce final, ready to print images to size.
To get started with ProSelect and try the free 30-day version, direct your browser to the web address below. After that, you can instantly purchase the software outright or lease it by the month (conditions apply) from their online store. Alternatively, if you need a web gallery for online display and sales, then TimeExposure can provide that too, via its WebGallery package.
www.timeexposure.com/portraitstudiosoftware.php
A final word...
Whichever package among our recommendations here you choose, solutions that save time and aim to make you money have got to be worthy of further investigation. And with discounts offered on current versions, or free trial enticements to see whether you like what's on offer before fully committing, what really do you have to lose? On the contrary, it does appear that in the realm of photographic software there is much to gain - and even if you're not a computer whizz.
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