Image Management
Image Management systems help you manage image libraries for easy rights management and repurposing.
Image management systems help organizations locate and retrieve large collections of image assets for use in multiple projects. For everything from product images to lifestyle shots, a centralized image management system is necessary to keep it all together for print collateral, catalogs, signage, presentations, multimedia, websites, social media and the next wave of marketing communications. Easy access to images is fundamental for organizations with multiple teams involved in creative services, design, marketing, public relations, engineering, advertising, and web development. Widen's 100% web-based image management software allows Mac and PC users to store, organize, view, share, download, send and print images on-demand.
Key Features: Your Image Management System is the central library to manage and distribute the high-impact visual assets that paint the "big picture" for your brand.
- Catalog images and apply associated metadata (automatically or manually) in one location.
- Use simple, powerful search functions to retrieve exactly what you need, when you need it.
- Control and protect go-to-market strategies for new products by determining when images are to be released or expired instantly.
- Store one high-resolution master and automatically convert derivatives on-demand within the Widen web-based image management application.
- Download collections of images to compressed .zip files with images in the proper formats and ready for use.
- External users can receive and download large images from a secure pickup page instead of from email attachments.
- Ship CDs and DVDs of image collections to remote locations for users with limited or no Internet access.
- Track and get reports on all user activity and changes to increase accountability and market intelligence; data can be applied to future budgeting and resource allocation.
Key Business Impacts of Widen Image Management Systems
- Provide controlled access—internally or externally—to official, high-quality images consistent with your brand.
- Eliminate costs associated with redundant photography, color retouching work and lost or misplaced images.
- Save on hours of manual tasks organizing, managing and finding images buried on desktops, server locations or CDs.
- Reduce the need to store multiple formats of the same file - all versions and derivatives belong to one asset.
- Easily find and use images repeatedly to increase their value and ROI.
- Quickly repurpose images to multiple formats for print or web use without additional creative software on your desktop.
- Archive and backup images for those inevitable projects that require that one image from way back when—just when you need it!
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