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Your member archive powered by digitalrailroad.net
serves many purposes. It's your place to organize images. It's an online
geographically redundant storage area. It's a one-stop shop for buyers
to find images for license and publication. It's also the backbone of
your stock photo business. It's your BRAND — NOT someone else's!
Digital Railroad allows you to upload
your images to your branded online member archive where clients can
easily search, preview images, and license at any time of day or night.
Revenue from sales can be delivered directly to your bank or via checks.
Digital Railroad provides you with an
organized workspace for your images — one that's accessible from anywhere
in the world through an Internet connection.
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Digital Railroad Member Site Features
- Personal online image archive you can use as your business home page or link to an existing Web site.
- Customize with your own logo, colors and homepage.
- Organize Groups — Place your images into groups, organized by subject matter, date or any other criteria you choose.
- Simplified Access for Buyers — One member name and password provides an image buyer with a free online workspace in any Digital Railroad-powered archive.
- Cross-platform server automatically scales to store all of your images.
- Automated production tools.
- Images are stored on our highly secure SQL database and Linux storage systems, which are located in a first-class co-location facility with an OC-48 speed IP backbone, redundant power feeds, uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, backup diesel generator power, 24 x 7 monitored security and fire-suppression systems.
- PC- and Mac-compatible.
- 24 x 7 system administrators on-site to monitor and maintain the data center infrastructure and client equipment.
- Accessible from anywhere in the world through an Internet connection. No software to download or configure.
- Your own Domain Name — Digital Railroad supports "domain pointing," allowing you to use your branded domain name for your archive.
- Batch Actions for production tasks — editing, captioning, rotating, replacing, and pricing.
- Lightboxes and Groups — Offer organizational options for collaboration and various view states, including Unpublished, Private, and Public.
- Bulk Importing — If you have hundreds of images, or thousands — or even hundreds of thousands — we can bulk-import your existing images directly into our system.
- Extensive online help and tips throughout the system, and our veteran team of engineers, editors and photographers are available to you via online support.
- Edit Selects — Unique digital editing system that mimics how you edit your best images. Edit your images by selecting "firsts," "seconds," and "outs."
- Multiple Photographers/One Path — Promote the images of multiple photographers through one Web site.
- Publishing — Completely automated support for Public and Private publishing. Until you choose to "publish" your images, they remain private.
- Archive Assistants — Add assistants to share access and production work.
- FTP Syndication — Upload once, sell often. Send any image in your archive directly to publications or representatives via FTP. Create multiple one-click FTP destinations and shortcuts for future distribution.
- Pricing — Create your own RF Pricing templates. Potential buyers can see the prices of RF images and negotiate pricing directly with you for RM images
- FTP Subaccounts — Designed for agencies and collectives to allow for multiple contributors allows for archives to have multiple contributors.
- Secure online payment system.
- Photo Feeds — Send or receive customized image content through desktop software, a Web page, or blog. Distribute thumbnails that link directly back to your archive.
- Market and Distribute Images — Share specific groups and customized Lightboxes with clients via email, and control who has permission to view and download.
- Marketplace Referral Network — Makes sure that your photo buyers always find the images that they're looking for. If a search results in zero images at your archive, buyers are referred to Digital Railroad's Marketplace, and you'll earn a percentage of any "referred" image sales.
- Currency Conversion Feature — Supports five major currencies in addition to the US dollar: Australian Dollar, Canadian Dollar, Euro, Pound Sterling, and Yen. You'll be able to change your personal currency display, as well as your archive's default display.
- Batch Price Requests and Releases — A robust feature that allows photo buyers to request prices for multiple images at once and also allows you to batch-release photos. A price request management area allows you to manage your archive's incoming requests.
- Improved Request Management Area — Allows you to better search and organize your requests.
- Generate your reports using one of the pre-created queries, or create your own custom reports.
- Image Downloads — Allows you to see which of your images have been downloaded.
- Image Sales — Displays the details of each sale you've made using the archive's e-commerce feature.
- Search Reports — Shows you the most popular and least-effective search terms used on your site.
- Image Reports — Details each time an image was viewed, along with the viewer's details.
- Sales Reports — Details of individual sales.
- Flexibility — You, your clients, or potential buyers can search by keywords, image ID, photographer, city, state/province, and country, as well as by date or within a date range.
- Shared — Links are provided at the bottom of every search results page to share the search with others.
- Category-based — Link images by concept, subject matter, or other common criteria.
For Photographers
Many of the best photographers in the
world from photojournalists to commercial photographers have their online
member archives powered by digitalrailroad.net. Your member archive
serves many purposes. It's your place to organize images. It's an online
storage area which is geographically redundant. It's a one-stop shop
for buyers to find images for license and a one-click opportunity to
also sell your images through our Marketplace community. It's also the
backbone of your stock photo business. Digital Railroad provides you
with the tools to manage, market, and sell your images from your own
branded member archive Web site.
For Agencies
Many respectable large and small photo
agencies — such as NBCU, UPI, VII, Redux Pictures, Grazia Neri, Moment,
eyevine, Aïna, and JiwaFoto — have chosen Digital Railroad to power
their online member archive. Whether you have millions of images or
thousands of images — our services can help you. We can provide your
agency with the same powerful workflow tools and a personally branded,
searchable member archive that puts your images at your clients'
fingertips.
For Buyers
Find Great Images Quickly and Efficiently
Thousands of photographers and photo
agencies are managing their images online in personalized member archives
powered by digitalrailroad.net. And that's going to make your buyers'
lives easier.
We constantly add features and functionality
that minimize your production time in front of the computer:
- Simplified registration
— buyers use one membername and password to access all member archives and Marketplace.
- Portable workspace
— buyers get a personal, "portable" workspace, complete
with our lightboxes, account information, and licenses that follows
them all over digitalrailroad.net.
- Unlimited lightboxes
— buyers can also create as many lightboxes as they need to organize
the images they find in Marketplace and member archives.
- One
unified shopping cart — no other service lets buyers keep their
images in a unified cart from thousands of member archives. From the
unified cart buyers can negotiate directly with you or the Marketplace
sales staff to get the images they need.
- Licensing Images —
buyers' workflow is simple with our Custom and Flex-Pack licensing forms.
Learn more about Buyer Benefits.
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