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ImageFolio Lite is now a free download!

Build and Manage a web-based JPEG Photo Gallery for FREE now!

Check it out: http://imagefolio.com/products/lite/

ImageFolio Lite is a free platform independent, webserver-based, digital photo gallery software product. ImageFolio Lite is an extremely fast slimmed-down version of our popular ImageFolio Pro product and supports unlimited images and unlimited catgories.

ImageFolio Lite fully automates the process of viewing, publishing, and maintaining your web-based photo gallery. Unlike other products, ImageFolio has the unique built-in ability to sharpen, crop, resize, and reformat your source JPEG images, to produce thumbnail and preview images, in batch or manual format, without requiring you to install third party software.

ImageFolio runs on all flavors of Windows, Unix, and Linux, including Mac OS X.

Please Note: ImageFolio Lite only works with JPEG Images. Your source images and output images can only be JPEG. If you need to support additional file types, please see ImageFolio Pro.

ImageFolio is proud to announce 10 years in the business of digital asset management and e-commerce solutions for stock, event, portrait, wedding and print photography. ImageFolio was the first economically priced, web-based commercial software product available to create online photo albums and sell photography, and is still considered to be the best value for your money today. The latest version of ImageFolio Pro and ImageFolio Commerce is 4.2.

With the announcement comes a huge 25% off sale, allowing you to license any ImageFolio product, such as Lite, Pro, or Commerce, or any service, such as hosting, installation, or custom programming, for 25% off the total price. There are no exceptions, everything is 25% off. Stop by imagefolio.com today and save big. The sale is valid only for a limited time.

Along with the standard Lightbox, Multi-User, Batch Thumbnail, Batch Upload, add-on plug-ins for ImageFolio include:

ImageFolio Batch IPTC Plug-In
ImageFolio’s Batch IPTC Plug-In adds batch IPTC editing (also known as metadata, keywording, tagging, captioning, etc.) functionality to ImageFolio Pro 4.x or ImageFolio Commerce 4.x. Save yourself hundreds of hours in kewording time.
http://imagefolio.com/products/batchiptc

ImageFolio ShareIt! Plug-In
ImageFolio’s ShareIt! Plug-In lets your users post your content (images and video) to their own pages on their social network profile, blog, or personal page without leaving your site. Supported sites includ MySpace, Facebook, Orkut, Friendster, Blogger, Bebo, Hi5, Freewebs, Xanga, LiveJournal, BlackPlanet, MyYearBook, Piczo, WordPress, Typepad, Multiply, iGoogle, Netvibes, PageFlakes and Tagged.
http://imagefolio.com/products/shareit

ImageFolio Zoomify Plug-In
Zoomify is a plug-in for ImageFolio to make high resolution images ‘zoomable’, as well as a Flash ‘viewer’ that web site visitors use to zoom-and-pan within a ‘zoomified’ image.
http://imagefolio.com/products/zoomify

http://imagefolio.com/products/batchiptc/

ImageFolio’s Batch IPTC Plug-In adds batch IPTC editing (also known as metadata, keywording, tagging, captioning, etc.) functionality to ImageFolio Pro 4.x or ImageFolio Commerce 4.x.

With the base version of a product you can only add keywords and captions to one file at a time. With The Batch IPTC Plug-In, you and your users (if permitted) can batch IPTC edit your keywords, captions, and 42 other fields of data to thousands of files at a time.

Adminstrators and users (with permission) will be able to quickly add batch IPTC edit assets by:

Category - apply Batch IPTC to all assets in any category
Lightbox - apply Batch IPTC to all assets in any lightbox

What is IPTC?

IPTC data is a method of storing textual information in images. It was developed for press photographers who need to attach information to images when they are submitting them electronically but it is useful for all photographers. It provides a standard way of storing information such as captions, keywords, location and captions. Because the information is stored in the image in a standard way this information can be accessed by other IPTC aware applications. ImageFolio supports the IPTC standard. However, with ImageFolio you can now add IPTC to non-image files because of the way in which ImageFolio generates icons as thumbnails for non-image filetypes.

Need more information?
Click here for more information about IPTC
Click here for information about IPTC codes

Usage

Log in as an administrator or user. While in Gallery Mode, the icon to do Batch IPTC is listed at the bottom of the gallery pages next to the Upload Files button. Click the Batch IPTC button to produce a pop up window from which you can add batch IPTC editing to any category or existing lightbox.

Questions
Will this resave my JPEG images causing loss to the quality of the images?

No, this will not resave your JPEG images. Our Batch IPTC tool can add IPTC to your images without having to recompress your images.

Requires

ImageFolio Pro 4.x or ImageFolio Commerce 4.x

BizSecure is finishing up the final touches on the Batch Action Plug-in that has batch iptc, batch move, and batch delete functionality. Adminstrators and users (with permission) will be able to add batch IPTC (keywords, captions, etc.), batch move, or batch delete a group of assets by:

• category (as in an entire category or a subcategory)
• search result (apply batch to a particular search result)
• lightbox (apply batch to a group of assets in any available lightbox)

See screenshot.

Yes, you can edit two files to change the thumbnail and preview image settings for ImageFolio, for both users who have permission to upload and administrators.

1. Log into your server via FTP.
2. Navigate to the cgi-bin/ImageFolio42/config directory.
3. Download two files, admin_config.pl and post_config.pl.
4. Open these files up in a text editor. You’ll notice settings in these files that you can change. The admin_config.pl changes settings for when an administrator uploads a file. The post_config.pl file changes settings for when a user uploads a file.
5. Make and save your changes, then overwrite the existing files on the server.

Note: be sure to use a text editor such as SimpleText, NotePad, EditPlus, BBEdit, or Text Wrangler to edit any configuration file.

BizSecure has been working on a Link Upload Plug-In for ImageFolio Pro that will enable users to upload and embed files from popular third-party video sharing websites. Administrators and users will only need to have the URL of the page containing the video.

The upload process will be almost the same, except they will see a new link in their upload files window entitled Link Upload. By simply copying and pasting the URL from the video site and clicking submit, ImageFolio will grab the video, the metadata tags, and a thumbnail image for the video, and place it directly into the chosen category. Users and administrators will then be able to add their own tags to further define the video and make it searchable within ImageFolio.

Current supported sites include: ClipShack, Google Video, YouTube, iFILM, JumpCut, and Sharkle. The Link Upload Plug-In will also support embedding of entire websites and URLs of anything that is posted on the Internet. Additional video sites can be added upon request if there is enough interest, and if not, it is always available via custom programming.

Pricing has not yet been determined.

Within the next two weeks, BizSecure will be releasing a MySQL driven advanced search plug-in for ImageFolio Pro and ImageFolio Commerce products. The advanced search will allow for an unlimited number of varying data queries to be performed within the same search. Users who use the advanced search function will be able to simply and quickly build their own queries by using pull down menus and entering keywords or selecting dates. Searches can be performed within an unlimited number of 1 or more fields, using available boolean operators for that field. Fields with pre-determined data will be auto-filled and available via pull-down menus instead of text boxes. Click here for a visual example.

ImageFolio’s ShareIt! Plug-In, Powered by Gigya, lets your users post your content (images and video) to their own pages on their social network profile, blog, or personal page without leaving your site.

Visit: http://imagefolio.com/products/shareit/

Current Supported Sites
MySpace, Facebook, Orkut, Friendster, Blogger, Bebo, Hi5, Freewebs, Xanga, LiveJournal, BlackPlanet, MyYearBook, Piczo, WordPress, Typepad, Multiply, iGoogle, Netvibes, PageFlakes and Tagged.

We first heard about ImageFolio in the October 2007 Buyer’s Guide of Rangefinder Magazine.

In the past, our studio has had to resort to software such as ROES and ProShots, as well as online photo galleries like Pictage and Digital Expressions, to post our weddings. As anyone who has used these services knows, there is a fee involved with all of them and most of them leave you with little control over the final prints. Now, we have ImageFolio Commerce installed on our servers. We can upload 600 (full sized) files in less than 5 minutes. No more slow FTP uploads that bog our computers down. We have all of the photos in galleries that we pick and adjust to our clients needs and best of all, every order that goes into the shopping cart, goes directly to us. We no longer pay someone else for our work and we get to control how the final prints look. We are looking forward to a huge growth in profits and we owe it all to ImageFolio.

Jerry R Kempfer
Northern Light Portrait Studios
www.northernlightstudios.com

ImageFolio Commerce has been featured in the October, 2007 Rangefinder Magazine Buyers Guide, “A complete guide to everything you’ll need in photography,” and is mentioned among products by Microsoft, Extensis, and others.

Rangefinder calls ImageFolio Commerce a “highly configurable application.” Click the image to see it.