Action Image - "Rapid Digital Workflow" Onsite Event Photography Software

Action Image, Digital Workflow Software from Action Athletics.

Are you a Sports Action, Event or Wedding Photographer?
Do you need to process a lot of images in a short about to time?
Do you need to keep and display most of those images?
Do you need to display those images onsite?
Would you like those images to be easily integrated into a shopping cart?
Have you been struggling to rapidly display your images onsite and online?

If you answered YES to these questions, then Action Image is right software system for you!

Action Image is designed to move through a bunch of images with the majority of them being made available within minutes for viewing onsite through viewing/ordering stations.
A simple upload to a website complete with a shopping cart and your customers are placing orders online after the event.

What it DOES do, it does very well. Move through A LOT of images and prepare them for viewing onsite or online.

Sport Event Photographers and Wedding Photographers are the prime users.
Photographers who need to go through thousands of images and have 80-90% of them cleaned, resized, organized and made available quickly for ordering/viewing.

Action Image features: (feature matrix) [including pricing]

Rapidly process images while looking at each one:

(ex: 300 photos in 5 minutes on an AMD 64 X2 4200+, 2GB RAM system)
Multiple photographers
Rotate images (sense auto-rotate from the camera as well)
Watermarks
Copyright
Resizes
Quick cropping added to our most recent development release
Delete
IPTC keyword insertion
Specific keyword tracking
(ex: tag the image with a keyword and a counter at the bottom will tell you how many you have tagged for a particular sub-event)
Simple color corrections (normalize [think auto-levels], levels, exposure, contrast)
Unlimited subdirectories, and sub-divisions for a main event.
A better way to present your photos. Customers can easily locate their photos which means more sales for you!
NO limits on the viewing/ordering stations in the software.
NEW Batch Mode (in latest development version). Doing very high volume events and need those photos available NOW?!?
320 photos in 3 minutes from CF card to shopping cart. More info to follow.

Quick demo movie of Action Image

Store & present your photos in a logical manner!!

Great for sports event photographers!
Softball
2005
ASA
Livermore Smoke Summer Kickoff
Girls U10
Clovis Bullets Blue vs. Napa Roadrunners 28 May
Livermore Smoke Black vs. Napa Roadrunners 28 May
Livermore Smoke Red vs. Lafayette-Moraga Sandlots 28 May
Santa Clara PAL Sparks vs. Clovis Bullets Red 28 May
Girls U12
Clovis Bullets Blue vs. Clovis Bullets Red 28 May
Livermore Smoke Black vs. Palo Alto Heat 28 May
Football
2006
High School
JV Boys
40th Bell Game South City Warriors vs. El Camino Colts 11 Nov
1st Quarter
3rd Quarter
2nd Quarter
4th Quarter

Wedding Photographers. Imagine sorting your photos with little effort while culling and renaming at the same time.
Weddings
2004
2005
Jodi Paul Wedding 19 Jun
Rehearsal Dinner
Formals
Pre-Ceremony
Ceremony
Toasts
First Dance
Reception 1
Reception 2
Reception 3
2006
Marni Brian Wedding
Thursday 20 Jul
Post-Ceremony
Pre-Ceremony
Ceremony
Drinks at Cascal
Saturday 22 Jul
Dinner
Gifts
Portraits
Toasts
Appetizers
Group Photos
Post-Dinner

Stores information in a MySQL database
Integrates easily into a website shopping cart.
Comprehensive sales reports: Trending, charts, and graphs.
Multi-processor support
Contactsheet generation (Examples of contactsheets)
Multiple servers capable of processing pictures at once. Great for event photography when doing onsite viewing/ordering.

What Action Image is NOT: PhotoMechanic or GIMP/Photoshop or NeatImage/Noise Ninja.

It is not deigned for the newspaper shooter on deadline needing to go through and edit a few selects.
It is not designed to be a complete end image manipulation program, there are other programs out there that do this very well.
It is not designed to efficiently clean the noise(digital grain) from images.

If you are interested in Action Image...we haven't quite finalized pricing yet, but please send us an email sales@action-image.net letting us know your interest, and we'll get back to you.

Click on each image for more information and a larger image

Main Entry Page

Choose the date.
Enter the team names
Choose the photographer
Select the sub-category options from 2 pulldown lists
Pre-rotate all the images from this card.
(please note, that this is an old screen shot, the newer version has more options)

Image Manipulation Page

Rotate images. ALL images or each one individually.
Increase/Decrease the exposure of ALL the images on the page or each individual image.
The 'ref' and 'nice' buttons are configurable hot IPTC keyword inserters
Increase/Decrease the contrast of individual images
'Normalize' is like Auto-Levels in Photoshop or The GIMP: ALL images or each one individually
'Dont process' saves the image in a special sub folder, but does not include it in the galleries nor database
'REMOVE FROM DISK' does just that. It deletes ALL versions from disk: Main, Backup, and Photographers copy
'Levels' is just what you think it is . Levels adjustment of an image.
The Keywords box allows keywords to be inserted into the IPTC keywords field. The rest of the IPTC data is configured from a file.
Convert to Black & White for those indoor/nite photos where the color/noise is so bad, black & white would work better.
Cropping has just been added to our most recent development release. Quick crop that does the online and thumbnail versions.

Zoom of an image

Levels adjustment on an image

Adjust the black point, white point, and gamma point of an image
Adjust the Exposure (same as on the main image manipulation screen)
ALL changes made are updated in real time on the image on them main image manipulation screen
Adjusting the individual channels (red, green, blue) is coming in the next few releases.

Example of onsite system setup with 6 ordering stations

Minimum hardware: server, card reader, switch, and 1 ordering station
More information to come about the sale of our pre-configured 3-in-1, 6-in-1, and 10-in-1 ordering (viewing) station setup