XLphoto®

XLphoto® streamlined workflow allows scalable and secure deployment of large image collections, leveraging different image formats and distribution protocols.
XLphoto® provides several unique features in a web environment.

For Collection Administrators

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System Requirements

Hardware

Pentium 3 800 Mhz +
512 MB RAM +
50 GIGA redundant disk space suggested
(for 4000 images 3000X2000)

Software

Windows® or Linux platform
Apache Web Server 1.3.27+
PHP 4.3.0 + installed as Apache module
FTP server
Access to SMTP server
MySql 4.0+ RDBMS

Create new collections

Collection administrators can create, modify and manage multiple image archives.

Upload high resolution images

Collection administrators can upload hi resolution images through a JAVA FTP client.

Populate the database

XLphoto® engine can automatically populate the database with the IPTC/EXIF and/or XMP metadata of the uploaded images for a compleatelly authomatic workflow.

Metadata editing

Collection administrators can edit image metadata singularly or in groups. It's also possible to define metadata template to be applied to selected images.

Users and Groups

XLphoto® provides advanced users management capabilities allowing to create/modify, users and groups.

Pricing strategies

Collection administrators can modify in real time the licensing pricing structure for all variables, including individual clients profile.

Reporting tools

Collection administrators can access reports on invoices, delivery notes, customers and other parameters.

Platform localization

Collection administrators can localize the platform in any language without the need of any programming through the XLphoto® translation engine.

Messaging

XLphoto® embeds a sophisticated, extendable event driven messaging system that enables the Administrator to create/modify and administer email messages to be sent out to groups or specific to customers/users upon the occurrence of specific system events.

Invoices & delivery notes

Collection administrators can configure the system to generate, send and archive invoices and images licenses of use.

Visible Watermark

Collection administrators can configure the system to watermark in a visible and customizable manner the images in the previews and in the comp (low resolution) delivery.

Invisible Watermark

Collection administrators can configure the system to watermark images at delivery time through XLphoto® Dynamic Distribution Engine, applying different watermarking strategies (unique ID, Photo ID, transaction ID etc.).

IPR protection and enforcing

Collection administrators can activate the XLspider® module to search watermarked images over the Internet to enforce IPR.

Metadata embedding

Collection administrators can configure the system to embed Metadata extracted from the database in the IPTC of the delivered images in a personalized way and at delivery time.

CMS Capabilities

XLphoto® integrates CMS (Content Management System) capabilities. The administrator of the system can access and modify all the static content of the application: help pages, FAQ, delivery notes templates, license templates, invoices templates, e-mails.

Compleately web based

All the back office functionalities described here can be through web pages. XLphoto® has been designed to be a completelly web application