Software Review: Lightbox Photo Gallery Software, Part 2
Posted on February 12, 2009 - Filed Under Culture, Photo | Visited 971 Times
This is the second in a three-part review about Lightbox Photo™ Gallery Software from Lightbox Photo™. I have broken this down into three parts because of the overall encompassing nature of this product and to try to work it down into a single review would do the product an injustice. The three areas I will cover are an overview of the software and to look at what it takes to install and setup of the Lightbox Photo™, what are the existing features of the product, and what are new features of the latest version of the software. In this one I will look at some of the features of Lightbox Photo™ Gallery Software.
Lightbox Photo™ is very feature rich. So rich in fact that there is no way to go into all that it can do. What I want to do instead is look at some of the functionalities that make it worth having. If you want to see everything, there is a feature list online. While not all of the features are available in every version, these are all in the enterprise edition.
• Customer Manager helps you manage your customer base. Here you can set up the registration form to handle what ever information you need to collect. It supports an unlimited number of form fields that you can add to or remove from. From this information you can manage your client base.
• Media Manager is a core function of the gallery administration. It displays all of the categories and the media that exists in the database. From here you can add, edit, remove, and manage everything. It gives you the ability to approve other photographers' media, add global pricing, add access to users for private galleries, search the media, watermark, and assign IPTC metadata to the gallery.
• License Manager exists in the enterprise version and enables you to create and assign rights managed licenses for your digital media. This will allow you to set various options for licensing your media. This way you can set up one option for image use, another for what it is used for, another for the size of the image, another for the size of the run, etc. Each of the items can stand alone, or rely on other options. You can then set pricing for each of the options and their derivatives. That is for print run, you can have one price for fewer than 50,000, another for 50,001 to 500,000, and so on.
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