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The Digital Photographer's Software Guide
Supported file formats: Major formats
Price level: Approx. £1,000 ( UK), annual re-registration fee £25
Address: Productive IT (UK) Ltd., 75 The Campions, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire WD6 5QG,
United Kingdom
www.productiveit.co.uk
Timestone Range
Vendor: Timestone Software
Purpose: Digital imaging workflow software for school and sports photographers
Description
Developed in Australia, the Timestone range of applications takes care of the entire
digital workflow for school and sports photographers. It is a complex, modular range
consisting of several production/printing applications, each designated Neo, from which
the photographer chooses the most appropriate, together with a remote photographer
application—CapturePost, DataPost, or OutPost.
The Neo applications let you collect, arrange, and match the images and data, correct
the color and perform cropping, and then export the images and data for the creation
of portrait packages, group photos with name-under, composite photos, memory mates,
trader cards, ID cards, book marks and novelty items, yearbooks, certificates, magazine
covers, and proof sheets. The versatility and production capacity of the application
depends on its level—NeoPak (for the production of plain packages); NeoPak Plus (lowvolume
production); NeoPack/Professional (high-volume production); NeoComposite
(production of composite group pages); and NeoGroup (for traditional group pages
with name-under).
CapturePost is a single-screen remote capture application designed for image capture
from a tethered digital camera. It supports nearly all cameras, has bar-code matching,
and lets you correct subject details, add new subjects, and enter order information.
DataPost prepares data for both CapturePost and the Neo applications and can be used
in the lab or remotely. It lacks the production functions of the Neo applications, but
comes with ordering and group name options.
OutPost is designed to be the “missing link” between photographer and laboratory,
allowing photographers to design, correct, and prepare packs, and then send them to
the lab in a print-ready state for printing. The lab itself needs to have NeoPack/Plus or
NeoPack/Professional.