November 5, 2011 – Launch Day
New Reasons For Photographers To Rejoice
Here’s a sneak peek at the new offerings of TheNPG.com beginning November 5, 2011
RSS Media Streams
- At the National Photographer Group, our photographers photograph A LOT of corporate events. One of the most popular requests from event organizers is to have a slideshow of the images so that the images can be displayed on a screen or other large video display. Using an RSS media stream, the Audio/Visual folks can easily tap into the stream with their RSS enabled devices and overlay whatever music for the mood is required. For the National Photographer Group photographer, creating the stream is simple and fully customizable. Furthermore, because it is a RSS media stream, many devices such as WiFi enabled digital photo frames, Windows 7 and Macintosh computers, modern televisions and professional media displays can all access this stream.
Professional Image Hosting
- If you’re a professional photographer, then you want a simple interface; you want to be able to host many different image formats–and be able to display previews of the RAW formats; you want to be able to give your client access to the images you created for them; you want to be able to archive your images and be able to recall them quickly when a customer wishes to have an image reprint. No other image host will do what we do at the price we will do it for.
Photo Shows
- You’re an event photographer and you want to be able to let event attendees to view the images from their event. If they wish to print the images, you want their experience to be seamless and hassle-free. Our Photo Shows are this, and will be more in the future.
Adobe® Lightroom® Publishing Plugin*
- What better way is there to upload images to our servers than through the same program that professional photographers use to process their digital images? None. This plugin creates seamless integration between Adobe® Lightroom® and TheNPG.com servers. What’s more is that it integrates the very first user-to-camera-to-image authentication system invented by National Photographer Group. This authentication system ensures that only the images that belong to a photographer, or are in public domain, are uploaded to TheNPG.com servers. This plugin is under active development and will continue to evolve as the needs of photographers also evolve.
Barcoded Labels Printed From Lightroom
- This is a feature of our Lightroom® plugin. Once the plugin is installed, a photographer can select the images from their catalog that they wish to print bar-coded labels for. Then, with just a few clicks and selections, a PDF containing the information for each of those selected images in a printable format is created. The photographer then prints out the labels and can adhere them to the reverse side of photo prints. When a customer wants a reprint of a specific image, the photographer scans the QR-code on the rear of the print and Lightroom® searches the photographer’s catalog for that print. Clever, huh?
Closing
These are just a few of the tools that we’ve been working on here at National Photographer Group. TheNPG.com and the Lightroom® plugin are always under development as we find new ways for photographers to excel in their business.
We’re also working on new hardware solutions for event photographers that will bring a level of awe to their work. Stay tuned.
If you have a suggestion for a hardware or software idea that you think will help the photography industry, please send your suggestion to us so that we can evaluate it and perhaps work with you to make it happen. We will always give credit where it is due.
Until next time, happy shooting!