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DarkRoom: The Editing Software for Professional Photographers

In this week newsletter, we are reviewing the latest version of Darkroom Software from Express Digital.

ExpressDigital Darkroom has been created to manage your entire digital workflow. There are 3 versions available: the core edition, the professional edition, and the assembly edition.

is a good starter package that allows photographers to create limitless print packages, apply graphic templates, edit & enhance photos, manage images, archive images, and more.

is perfect for the professional specializing in portrait, wedding, sports or event photography. Darkroom Professional Edition adds to the features of the Core Edition: a template builder, green screen shooting, on-screen presentation modes, direct capture, color management, network capabilities, and more.

is perfect for the professional specializing in schools, team sports and group photography. Enhances the workflow for the school or group photographer by combining all of the elements of the Professional Edition, plus many specialized features.

General Features

The software offers several possibilities to import your images. You can direct capture from your digital camera, open raw and proprietary digital camera files, import from any compatible twain source and of course open any standard digital file format.

Managing the photos is fairly easy, you can catalog photos by event, subject or location. You can add notes to your photos and make it easy to find your images, you can also make searches based on catalog ID, model name, event name, description, city, state , or date. Finally, you archive your photos to your hard-drive or to a CD or DVD.

This software has been made with the professional photographers in mind. It makes it easy and fast to apply graphic templates but also text and overlay graphics and turn quickly photos into valuable images. You can also create print packages which can be done with the customer in a fast and easy way, enable your client to put their package as they review the images with you. A star grating system allows the client to organize the images by order of preference.

You can edit the photos with the enhance option and change the image orientation, the size, transform it in black and white, sepia or duotone. You can add vignette and do basic retouching of your images. Correction is also possible. You can modify brightness, contrast, exposure, shadows, color, tone and redeye. If you need to do a more in depth correction of the image you can easily transfer the image to PhotoShop.

A very attractive function is built in green screen option, this is a really great feature for event photographers. This function is easy to use and the software comes with preloaded borders, like calendar, wanted, golden hearts, wedding frames, mattes, composites, edge effects, holiday cards, sports composites.

Another important feature is the possibility to create automated proof sheet printing and the custom layout capabilities. For your clients an electronic on screen proof presentation and a built in slideshow. The order tab allows you to view new orders, pending orders and completed orders. Each order is organized by order ID, type, customer, order time, status, status time, age payment and fulfillment.

If you need more functions, the Assembly version of the software also offers the possibility to use bar code for quick data entry, auto print order envelopes, slate cards and shoot sheets, auto create yearbook CD’s and 2 days of on site training.

The software includes drivers for most ink-jet and dye-sub printers including Mitsubishi, Sony, Kodak, Olympus, Hi-touch, Epson, HP, Lexmark and Dell, to give the best result possible for your images.

To run Darkroom software you need to have a PC with at least a Pentium 4, 512 MB of RAM, 40 GB hard drive, and run Windows XP. The software can be used on a studio network if needed.

In conclusion, Express Digital Darkroom software is certainly the most complete PC software for the professional photographer available today on the market.

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DarkRoom: The Editing Software for Professional Photographers