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P
JUST RELEASED-
FreeStyle Album Designer
You or your clients can Design Albums on the web!!!!
(You can design the album, and your clients can make
their own modifications)
Read all about it
Features and Options, and How it
All Works
To upload events to your
Preview Gallery
1. Open your Presentation Gold
program.
2. Open the image folder of the event you wish to upload to
your Gallery. All of the images must be in one folder.
"Open/Images"
3. To organize your images, look in the toolbar for the
"Organize Images" icon. Open the Image Organizer. You will see
a second thumbnail bar open above your images.
4. Look in the top left of the screen, you will see a
"Dropdown List" of "Categories". You can select a Category, or
create new ones.
5. Select a Category before adding images to the Organizer.
6. Drag Images to your Categories.
7. When you have your images organized, click the "Upload
Image Utility" and upload your event. |
You set print and shipping charges in
your Dashboard. You also create new Event Types. When you upload events,
you select the options you created in the Dashboard.
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The following features and options are
available for you to use at anytime. Upload a few events and receive a
few standard orders, then come back and learn about these additional
features.
Options you can apply
Hide Event-
This is "Privatization or Password" type protection for your event. We
don't use Passwords to protect your events. When you upload your events,
you give your clients the URL (web address) to the event. The Hidden
Events will not appear in the Event List on your Gallery. You simply
give your client the direct URL link to their event. We have a built in
email system to send them their link.
Tag for eXpress
Order- If you have read about our eXpress Order feature, you know it
will retrieve orders from your gallery, retrieve the images for the
order, and send the order directly to our partner lab for processing and
shipping to your clients. You must first establish an account with one
of our Partner Labs to use eXpress Order. We will be happy to supply you
with a list of Partner Labs in your area.
Expiration
Date- You can "Remove" your event from public viewing, without
removing the event from your gallery. Set a date to remove "Expire the
Viewing" of the event. When the expiration date is reached, a message
will appear in place of the event when a customer goes to that event.
The message tells them to contact you for further details about viewing
the event.
You can change
the status of any of the options at anytime. Go to the "Manage" screen
to change options and event status.
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Using our Partner Labs
As a customer of our Partner Labs, you can
open your orders in Presentation Gold, crop them and send the orders to
the lab. The cropping is applied to each image according to the sizes
ordered, and is applied at the lab before printing. The Partner Lab can
also color correct the individual image before printing, so you will
have one uniform color and density for all of your prints.
When you use a Partner Lab, click the
Green Arrow Button and you will see your order in the list. Add it to
the Que, and send your order(s) to the lab via our built in FTP.
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Enhance Screen
There is no absolute, guaranteed way to protect images displayed on the
web. We have adapted every security measure available to protect your
images. If you feel you require more protection, we suggest you use our
"Watermark" tool to protect them. You can place your studio name, the
word Proof, or any other text across the entire image, or in a corner.
You can have 100% solid text, or reduced opacity.
You will also find
the Sharpening Tool (rarely required-upload your images, if you like the
sharpness, leave them alone. This option does not effect you original
images. You will also find Album Cover text tool on the Enhance Screen.
You can display your Album Designs on your Preview Gallery. Save your
designed pages as full size JPG's. When you select the folder that
contains the pages, check the box at the bottom of the upload screen
that says "Upload as Album Pages". If you create "Panorama" pages, be
sure to have the word-"panorama" in the file name of the pages. Example:
Page1 panorama.jpg. It can appear anywhere in the file name. When the
program sees the word "panorama" it displays the page as a single print,
spread across two pages.
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Package Pricing
You can create
packages in your shopping cart. There are 2 types of packages you can
offer.
Package type A-
One pose for all prints ordered
Package type B- Different poses for every size ordered
Offer Discount Prices for Additional Print
Orders
When you create your packages, you can set 2 prices for additional
prints. Set your standard print prices, and then set reduced print
prices for those customers who order a package.
When you have your
new Price List as you like it, save and rename it. Give it a name that
applies to the event type you will be using this new price list with.
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Create Discount and other Coupons
Go to the Manage Event screen in your
Dashboard, to create coupons. Select an Event to create coupons for.
Select a
"Type", "Name" your coupon, set a "Value".
That's it-
Then give your client the Coupon Name. They enter it in the shopping
cart at checkout time. All coupons are tracked, and a customer
cannot use it twice.
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Receiving Orders
from your Preview Gallery
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There are 2 methods:
Method 1. You will receive an email when your clients place
orders in your Gallery.
There will be an attachment in the email. You cannot open the attachment
and read it.
You "Save" the attachment to
c/presentation/order folder we already created in your computer.
Method 2. We have created an
automated order retrieval system that actually "pings" your Galleries
online order folder 24/7 and retrieves the orders placed by your
clients.
The retrieved order are placed in the c/presentation/orders folder.
Whether you use the retrieved order, or the
attached order, now you open your Presentation Gold program.
Use File/Open, or click the second icon in
the toolbar to go to the Orders folder. You will see a file called "Web_Order",
with the clients name. Click on that file and "Open" it.
When it opens, the Presentation Gold program
will open all of the images for that client. Go to the "Crop Screen".
You will see the ordered images listed there. You can crop your images,
and send your order to your lab.
To finalize your order, go to the "Process
Orders and Images" screen. Click the "Hand" pushing the button. Then
click the "Green Arrow" to FTP your order to the lab.
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Receiving eXpress
Orders From Your Gallery
eXpress Order is our "Total Automated Order
Fulfillment System". When you upload an event, and designate it as an
eXpress Order, your order will be retrieved from your Gallery, the
images will be found in your computer, and the order will go directly to
our Partner Lab, all behind the scenes without you having to do a thing.
You can change the status of
your Events Online at anytime from eXpress to Standard
order at any time.
You must establish an
account with one of our Partner Labs to use eXpress Order.
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Presentation Gold V8
Some of the
features include our Album Designer, Cropping Tool, Renumbering Tool,
Sorting and organizing Tools, Color correction Tools and more.
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Read about the additional features
available for you to use in Presentation Gold (the advanced
mode) at:
www.myprohelpdesk.com
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Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or
problems. We will either return a response by email, or a phone call. Be
sure to always include your phone number in all correspondence.
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