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Choosing among printroom, photoshelter, exposure manager?
Armando Solares, Photographer
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Englewood | FL | USA | Posted: 11:17 AM on 08.19.07 |
->> I need input from users of these services or others. I'd like to know the pros and cons of each service according to your personal experience.
I want to go with one of the services above to fulfill orders, but I am having a hard time choosing one.
I have a photoshelter account but it is not set up to fulfill orders. I have used printroom before and I like its service, however it was never integrated into my site. I have never used exposure manager but I have read about their services. Low cost and good service and products is what I want.
Any input will be greatly appreciated.
Armando |
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Alan Look, Photographer
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Bloomington | IL | United States | Posted: 11:29 AM on 08.19.07 |
->> Armando, I can only expand on PhotoShelter. If your using it for archiving, your probably already aware of many of it's features. The biggest pro's I get from it are: ease of use, one stop does it all, the integration with PhotoMechanic and the SportsShooter website, and the protection it offers my work.
Many of the others still aren't protecting images to the extent of PhotoShelter. Right click to save picture as works on almost all the sites, but at PhotoShelter all you get when you do that is an empty clear gif file. That leaves only 2 ways (that I can find on a windows based system) for someone to get your images - one of those is to actually spend some money for it!
Cons - While PhotoShelter is making great strides, I still find the accounting a bit better at some of the other sites. Statistics are also something I think will get better with time at PhotoShelter. Both of those items I find useful and convenient, so I plug them when ever I get a chance with the good people at PhotoShelter.
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Mike Brice, Photographer
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Toledo | OH | USA | Posted: 11:33 AM on 08.19.07 |
->> I have used Printroom, and I use Exposure Manager now. I think Exposure Manager offers a more flexible service and options and a lower price.
I have a Photoshelter account, but I don't use it for sales. I think it is still a bit too clunky for the consumer user. I think it is fine for editors.
Exposure Manager has a free 15-day trial, so give it a spin. |
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Eric Isaacs, Photographer
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Santa Barbara | CA | USA | Posted: 11:39 AM on 08.19.07 |
->> Hi Armando,
Jeff Hurndon just posted a similar question so I'll give you my same impressions of Exposuremanager. To me they have a far superior look and feel over printroom, shutterfly-pro, and some of the others I have seen. I have a photoshelter account but honestly haven't taken the required time to figure the thing out. It has come in handy several times when I was on the road and needed to show some high-res work to clients with the ability for them to download.
Strictly for event photography, I find exposuremanager to be a very reasonable choice. Though their customer support isn't AS good as it used to be, it's still quite good and you generally get a fast response. I think the fact that there are numerous support personnel actually dropped their quality a bit but thats the price of being popular.
The print quality and variety of products is great and you can set your own prices for each gallery.
Not sure what else to say so I'll end with yet another self serving advertisement -- if you sign up for EM using the top link, you get a five dollar discount and I get some bonus money too :-)
http://www.exposuremanager.com/aff/emiphoto
http://www.emiphoto.com (for an example of integration)
EMI |
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Chris Machian, Photographer, Assistant
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Omaha | NE | USA | Posted: 11:49 AM on 08.19.07 |
->> I used printroom for prints, photoshelter for selling images for publication.
Printroom has been fine until recently, when a customer ordered prints in june, didn't get them until august and they were of poor quality. She tried to resolve it through printroom, didn't get anywhere then contacted me.
The reason I use a service like this is to save me time. Which it hasn't.
Up to this point, I used printroom for my own personal prints.
Now I am spending time to make my own prints locally and ship them out.
I had to intervene on behalf of my client, and the response i got was something along the lines of being understaffed.
I tried photoshelter's print services, but it seemed more difficult to set up that printroom's (albeit this was a while ago).
But this is just MY experience. |
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Jock Fistick, Photographer
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Brussels | Belgium | | Posted: 5:17 PM on 08.19.07 |
->> I have used Printroom on occassion for my own personal family photos - so I understand how it works - so I don't understand how anyone finds Photoshelter A) difficult to set up for automated print fulfillment and B) clunky for clients to use?
But to each his own :-)
In my opinion - if you already have a photoshelter account - then why complicate things by using yet another service?
It only takes a few minutes to set up a print pricing profile or multiple profiles for that matter - which can then be applied to any images you upload to PS as you like - no muss no fuss. And you can even set up special self fulfillment profiles so if you offer your clients custom print services that are not covered by the standard online printing sites - you can do that too - again - all in one place. Kind of seems like a no brainer to me :-) |
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Robert Smith, Photographer
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Brandon | MS | USA | Posted: 5:37 PM on 08.19.07 |
->> Coming from Printroom to ExposureManager, I can tell you that I am VERY pleased with the product that EM is delivering. My clients say that it is MUCH easier to navigate. Also, I upload straight from Aperture to the EM FTP without having to go thru a lot of other steps to get my images online. I can convert raw files, rename and resize, watermark and post images...all with one click of the mouse.
Hope this helps.
Bob |
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