The Pro Photographer's Digital Workflow Toolkit

iView has teamed up with the leaders in photographic enhancement tools, Nik Software, to bring you the Pro Photographer's Digital Workflow Toolkit. For only $229, you can buy iView MediaPro and Nik Color Efex Pro Select Edition, a savings of more than $120 if purchased separately.
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About Nik Color Efex Pro Select Edition
The award-winning Nik Color Efex Pro 2.0 digital photographic filters offer features and functionality that are designed to make creative digital photography enhancements and digital photography not only easier, but better. Recognized as the leader in digital photographic filters, Nik Color Efex Pro 2.0 provides photographers with a wide range of filters and effects that make enhancing and transforming digital images better than ever. The Nik Color Efex Pro 2.0 Select Edition includes all filters contained in the Standard Edition and adds additional filters, offering 45 filters total. For a complete list of filters available in the Nik Color Efex Pro 2.0 Select Edition, please click here.

Special Workflow Guide
Automate your image processing using Nik filters and iView MediaPro (PDF, 365KB)
This workflow guide covers how to edit and manipulate your photograpghs in Photoshop using filters from Nik Software. The guide covers how to automate image manipulation using Photoshop's actions and droplet creation tools and defines a full 'round trip' workflow allowing you to open, edit and return the resulting images back into MediaPro.

Posted: Nov 01, 06 | 9:30 am EST

iView podcast: Digital Railroad Uploader

Summary: Episode 4 of the iView MediaPro video podcast shows you how to use the new, free plug-in for iView MediaPro — the Digital Railroad Uploader. This plug-in is an efficient digital archive software solution for MediiaPro allowing users an easy way to upload images to your Digital Railroad archive from an iView MediaPro catalog. Digital Railroad is a professional online archive service that provides you with all the tools you need to manage, market and sell your images around the globe. Learn more and download the Digital Railroad Uploader.

» Download this episode: Available in iPod-ready MPEG-4, Windows Media Video, QuickTime movie and audio-only MP3.
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Posted: Nov 01, 06 | 6:30 am EST

Digital Railroad offers support for iView MediaPro to streamline photographers' workflows

Digital Railroad, Inc., a leading provider of Web-based application services for the professional photography industry, today announced support for iView MediaPro, in the form of a powerful upload utility that enables Digital Railroad members a one-click solution for transferring image files from an iView MediaPro catalog directly into their Digital Railroad archives.

“As a Digital Railroad member and an iView MediaPro user, I am looking forward to using this new service,” said Ed Kashi, photojournalist and co-author of Aging in America: The Years Ahead. “As a photojournalist, more seamless connection of both products will help enormously in my digital workflow, giving me more time for reporting and making pictures.”

Read the full press release on the Digital Railroad Web site.

The Digital Railroad uploader is available for download for both Mac and Windows.

Posted: Oct 25, 06 | 9:24 am EST

Channel 9 interview: "iView at Microsoft: Meet the Team"

Charles Torre from MSDN's Channel 9 recently interviewed the iView Team to find out what it's like to be purchased by a giant company like Microsoft, how the development team are doing in their new digs in Redmond, and what the future holds for iView... and we can assure you that the future of iView MediaPro on both Mac and Windows is very bright indeed!

• Watch a short clip about the exciting cross-platform future of iView MediaPro (Clip Length: 00:00:48)
- Watch clip in Windows Media (WMV) format
- Watch clip as a QuickTime movie

• Watch the whole video on Channel 9 to hear the full story (Video Length: 00:25:23)

Channel 9 is a Microsoft discussion forum used to promote conversations among Microsoft's customers targeted at Microsoft Windows users. Channel 9 features interviews with Microsoft developers about their products and a forum to discuss the videos and other topics. According to the first video ever posted on the site, the name was picked after the on-board channel no. 9 on airplanes. On this channel, passengers can listen to the cockpit conversations, listening to what's happening up front.

Posted: Oct 24, 06 | 6:24 am EST | Permalink | Email | Print | Add to Del.icio.us

iView creates a digital workflow for the Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition

The Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition (SWPY) is one of the world’s leading international photographic contests. This winning images form a highly emotive showcase of the splendor, drama and variety of life on earth – an unforgettable experience for participants, visitors and wildlife lovers alike. Microsoft is the proud digital technology sponsor of the competition and, over the past three years, has worked closely with the Natural History Museum to enable the competition to embrace a recent and inevitable shift to digital photography techniques and formats.

iView MediaPro provided the backbone for the competition's new digital workflow. All images were imported into a MediaPro catalog where metadata was added, creating a central database of all competition entries. The Light Table and Slideshow features then came to the fore, providing judges with a clear and uncluttered method for reviewing & rating files. Through this process the 18,000+ entries were whittled down to the final selection. MediaPro was then used to batch resize these images for the SWPY Website and image data was exported to an XML file, to be easily imported into the Museum's existing Web framework. MediaPro also formed a cornerstone in the organisation's digital archive software solution allowing staff to quickly and easily backup submissions to a variety of storage devices.

• Read the full story here.
• See the winning images on the SWPY Website.

Posted: Oct 20, 06 | 6:59 am EST

6th Annual GreatPhotography SMU Digital Revolution seminar

Richard Sturdevant, Dallas Photographer of the Year, is a guest speaker at this year's 6th Annual GreatPhotography SMU Digital Revolution on Nov. 4 in Plano, TX. He will share the secret techniques he uses to create images that wow judges in every competition he enters.

You'll also be able to hear SMU photography instructor Rob Hull (pictured right), Texas Highways magazine shooter Griff Smith, Dallas Morning News photographer Natalie Caudill, Don Steele and more share their digital photography tips and techniques.

Description: Photographers understand many of the elements of digital photography, but few have mastered an efficient and effective digital workflow. This seminar starts with live digital capture and follows the image throughout the workflow to the final printed product. Also learn about:

• Learn the secrets that the pros use for processing digital images - giving their images that stunning visual impact.
• iView MediaPro and digital asset management
• How to control your digital workflow, including a discussion on Adobe Lightroom.
• Adobe Photoshop tools and add-ons that can help add some visual impact to your images.

Details
Saturday, November 4, 9 am - 4 pm
SMU-in-Legacy Campus
5236 Tennyson Parkway
Plano, TX

» Register now online for only $69 (USD). Lunch is included.
» More information on this one-day seminar

Posted: Oct 16, 06 | 2:35 pm EST

See iView in Action at Booth 1372 of the PhotoPlus Expo

Come see iView MediaPro demonstrations and digital asset management presentations at booth 1372 at the PhotoPlus Expo, Nov. 2-4 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City.

See the PhotoPlus web site for registration information. The Expo hours are:
• Thursday, Nov. 2, 10am - 5pm
• Friday, Nov. 3, 10am - 5pm
• Saturday, Nov. 4, 10am - 4pm

PhotoPlus also features a wide variety of digital photography seminars. ASMP and iView Multimedia are the sponsors of Peter Krogh's seminar, Digital Asset Management for the Working Photographer.

This interactive workshop will provide an overview of Digital Asset Management (DAM) techniques and a step-by-step workflow for professional photographers. Attendees will learn best practices in image handling, how to configure software for maximum efficiency, how to use metadata to build and manage an archive, and the benefits of DNG for an integrated workflow. Krogh will demonstrate how to create a stable information structure using Adobe Bridge and iView MediaPro. Based on the principles and practices in The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers, this seminar will introduce concepts to boost your productivity in the short term and to insure integrity of your files in the long term.

iView gurus and affiliates Kevin Ames, Daniel Cox, and Tim Grey are among the digital photography experts teach seminars at PhotoPlus.

• Complete list of PhotoPlus seminars and registration information

Posted: Oct 10, 06 | 8:13 pm EST

New Release: iView MediaPro 3.1.2 for Mac and Windows

iView Multimedia has released a free update to its flagship digital asset management program iView MediaPro. The first comprehensive update since iView’s acquisition by Microsoft this summer, iView MediaPro 3.1.2 delivers significantly more robust performance, including clearer error reporting and improved memory handling for both Mac and Windows customers, as well as a number of minor feature enhancements.

New changes and enhancements include:
• Action log now reports activity for more features of MediaPro.
• Added support for cameras in PTP mode (Win).
• Batch rename now sorts as the view order and appends an incrementing number to the filename if filename clash occurs.
• Improved Scroll Lock mode in Light Table. On Macs, the Option key resets offsets while scrolling
• Dates displayed in the Info Panel now adjust to changes in the date format preference.

"You can all continue to use and buy iView products knowing that they will be fully supported as Microsoft evolves the products in the future on both the Windows and Mac platforms," says Yan Calotychos, founder of iView.

For a complete list of improvements, please download this version history document (PDF).

Download iView MediaPro 3.1.2
This update is free for registered users of MediaPro 3.x. This update works best with the latest version of QuickTime (7.1.3) from Apple, which is strongly recommended to both Windows and Macintosh users.

Posted: Oct 10, 06 | 6:21 am EST

And the winner of the Canon EOS 400D / Digital Rebel XTi is...

The iView team is extremely excited to announce the winner of the "Refer a Friend to iView" competition... and the lucky recipient of the brand new Canon EOS 400D / Digital Rebel XTi is Gavin Gough of Hampshire, UK!

And as a fitting way to break in his new camera, we hear that Gavin is off to India for two months for some commission and stock work. Happy shooting Gavin!

You can see Gavin's photography at Photofina.com.

Posted: Oct 09, 06 | 6:05 am EST

Gekko Images updates Windows Uploader for iView MediaPro 3

Australian stock library Gekko Images has updated the Windows version of the Gekko Uploader for use with iView MediaPro 3.1.1.

The Gekko Integrated iView Uploaders for Mac and PC are the easiest and fastest way to get your images in a Stock library. Simply select your images and press the Upload button in the iView Toolbar and the Uploader will validate the files and send them directly to your account. No burning DVDs or CDs, your high resolution images are sent directly from iView to Gekko and will be earning you money in a matter of minutes - it's that simple.

Download and instructions
This tool is a free download for Gekko members.
• Mac Gekko Uploader for use with MediaPro 3.1.1
• Windows Gekko Uploader for use with MediaPro 3.1.1

More information on Gekko Images
• About, Services, Register, Search Images

Posted: Oct 04, 06 | 10:05 am EST