Training Videos

Installing & Upgrading ProSelect

These movies show you how to install the latest version of ProSelect on your computer. If you are starting a 30 day free trial the movies include information on how to do that. If you are already registered to use the version that you are installing, just select the "Register ProSelect" option instead.

Topic: How to install and start your ProSelect Trial on Mac OSX

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Apr 15, 2020

Topic: How to install your ProSelect Trial on a Windows machine

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Apr 17, 2020

Topic: All about ProSelect upgrades and updates, how to find out what's changed, backing up your data, accessing the included resources in a new version and what installation options are best for a range of users from those who are just getting started to those with well-established setups.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Apr 16, 2017

Latest Version New Features - 2022r1

Topic: With the Product Filter turned on, ProSelect will limit the sizes of any Print products you are presenting to match those set up in your Price List.

Presenter: ProStudioSoftware.com
Date: Sep 5, 2021
Duration: 9:53

Topic: Snap to Grap technology allows for accurate spacing between elements added to a room. This same technique is used in the Template Editor for fast accurate template creation.

Presenter: ProStudioSoftware.com
Date: Sep 16, 2021
Duration: 3:36

Topic: Wall groupings are automatically spread apart using Dynamic Sizing. When frames and/or mats are added to a wall group layout, the images are moved to positions honoring the spacing gap from the template.

Presenter: ProStudioSoftware.com
Date: Sep 16, 2021
Duration: 3:30

ProSelect Basics

Topic: In this video, Ron Nichols shows you how to create a ProSelect Album and prepare your images for presentation including cropping, photoshop actions and marking images as photographer favorites.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Aug 17, 2016
Duration: 12:02

Topic: Recommended Workflow overview Adding a folder of images into ProSelect Supported image formats Working with RAW files and about Lightroom Saving your album and the default save location

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: May 19, 2021
Duration: 7:16

Topic: Learn about the Working with modes and Views Toolbar tools & Controls About the Info Bar Introduction to Image Sets Using the Image List Second Display and Ambient Music controls

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: May 19, 2021
Duration: 18:56

Topic: ProSelect's Mirror Image Display Area feature allows you to your client's attention focused on their images on a second screen (TV or projector). This movie shows you how to set this up on a Mac.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Jul 13, 2018
Duration: 7:23

Getting in Deeper

Topic: Cropping in ProSelect is fast and flexible with right-click menus. The video covers the different cropping options and when to use them.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Apr 10, 2019
Duration: 9:18

Topic: Preparing your images for the sale presentation Culling and removing rejects Re-arrange the appearance order for the sale Cropping individual images Cropping in bulk Zooming in for more detail Using multiple image zoom for closer comparisons

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Aug 8, 2015

Topic: ProSelect supports an Undo feature for many common operations. Just use CMD-Z (on Macs) or CTRL-Z (on PCs) to go back one or multiple steps.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Mar 22, 2016
Duration: 2:39

Topic: Using Perfectly Clear technology, ProSelect 2019r2 enables to you quickly get your images looking great for your presentation session to maximize your sales results. No longer do you need to spend hours retouching images that won't be sold. ProSelect Pro users with PLUS can have their selected pretouch settings automatically carried through to the final high-res images during production, or manually "fine-tune" the images prior to production.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Aug 13, 2019
Duration: 9:16

Topic: Paperless ordering takes another forward step with notes features in ProSelect. Add the text for your commonly used notes into the Notes Library then apply them to one or more images with a few clicks (and no typing!)

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Mar 22, 2019

Topic: ProSelect includes a messaging system that will notify you in an unobtrusive way when there is information to keep your software working more effectively for you.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Mar 22, 2016

Topic: Learn how to use the Star Ratings to select and filter your images and setting and using the Favorites tag on images.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Sep 25, 2020
Duration: 5:13

Topic: Learn the tips and techniques using this new feature in ProSelect 2015r1 for creating images for social media, protecting your images during sales presentations and adding logos to images in final production.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: May 4, 2015

Topic: Taking control of Select Size View in ProSelect. Learn about how to show images at exactly the sizes and cropping you want.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Sep 5, 2012

Topic: In ProSelect 2018r1 you can add a high or low key vignette to your selected images with just a few clicks. This make is fast and easy to add extra pizazz to your presentations. You can also optionally carry the applied vignette through High-Res production to the final images.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Jun 13, 2018
Duration: 3:47

Topic: Image List Filtering in ProSelect 2018r1 is a great new option to quickly refine down the displayed images to help you during the sale.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Jul 13, 2018
Duration: 4:34

Showing and Selling

Topic: See how you can sell more and larger wall portraits and wall groupings using the powerful in-person sales software ProSelect Pro for professional photographers.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Aug 17, 2016

Topic: ProSelect allows you to overlay any item in the display area with a number for easy identification by your clients. Just hold down the "N" key to show the ID number.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Mar 22, 2016
Duration: 1:21

Topic: ProSelect 2016r1 now allows you to adjust the cropping position of images shown in Select Size View when working with Image and any image prints added to a Room View image.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Mar 22, 2016

Topic: When comparing groups of images and drilling deeper, this unique ProSelect feature enabl3s you to easy get back to your selected group of images and stream line your sales presentation.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: May 22, 2017

Topic: With the Product Filter turned on, ProSelect will limit the sizes of any Print products you are presenting to match those set up in your Price List.

Presenter: ProStudioSoftware.com
Date: Sep 5, 2021
Duration: 9:53

Topic: How to use Image Sets in ProSelect to group your images for all sorts of useful purposes.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Feb 9, 2013

Topic: Wall Grouping templates have always been a great way to show a pre-arranged collection of images together. Now you can easily add mats and frames and re-adjust the position of each print to create beautiful wall gallery designs in seconds.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Apr 10, 2018
Duration: 15:14

Running Virtual In-Person Sales with ProSelect

You can download a sample layered PSD file (zipped) of the same Protect Images Stamp (the cross-hatch grid) that was used in the "Optimizing ProSelect for VIPS - Part 2" movie by clicking here.

Topic: How to setup Zoom for your VIPS session, preparing your clients for the on-line meeting and scheduling the meeting.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Mar 26, 2020
Duration: 27:30

Topic: Part 2 of the VIPS series. This movie shows you have to setup ProSelect included Protect Images Stamps, Slideshow settings and adding Product images to ProSelect.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Apr 1, 2020
Duration: 18:46

Topic: Getting ready for and starting your VIPS session.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Apr 11, 2020
Duration: 25:24

Designing & Applying Mats

Topic: Mats in ProSelect 2018 are amazing. They can be used as Surrounding Mats on Prints and Composite Layouts and as Inner Mats on all layouts. Export accurate mat data for your framer to cut or export the mat as a "virtual mat".

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Apr 10, 2018
Duration: 16:59

Topic: In ProSelect 2018r1 you create and show products with both Traditional Mats (that are physically overlayed on your products) and Virtual Mats which are exported as part of your printed products. This movie shows you how to design. use and order virtual mats to create unique saleable products.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Jul 1, 2018
Duration: 21:09

Slideshows

Topic: Running a Quick Slideshows Slideshow shortcuts Adding with your studio logo to your slideshow Using the Preferences to setup a default structure Adding music basic music synching Including video clips

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Sep 9, 2019
Duration: 15:36

Topic: ProSelect's slideshow styles provide an easy and very flexible way for you to setup and use different slideshow "look and feel" for different purposes or different client types.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Sep 29, 2019
Duration: 18:20

Topic: While your Slideshow Style setting control the overall timing of slideshows, in ProSelect 2019r2, you can now also speed up or slow down individual slides to fine-tune your slideshows even more.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Sep 2, 2019
Duration: 13:31

Topic: ProSelect gives you the ability to create exciting music-synced slideshows on the fly. With ProSelect Pro you can include video, add Ken Burns effects and use dynamic title slides. Slideshows can be rendered to salable mp4 files.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Aug 17, 2016
Duration: 5:23

Topic: Find out about the different music resources included in ProSelect 2017r1. This is the first of three movies and covers the music that is included with the new installer.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: May 26, 2017

Topic: Find out about the different music resources included in ProSelect 2017r1. This is the second of three movies and covers downloading and adding the re-selected TimeExposure PLUS Music Collections.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: May 26, 2017

Topic: Find out about the different music resources included in ProSelect 2017r1. This is the third of three movies and covers searching the TX PLUS music library for songs by different criteria including tracks that will easily sync with the length of your slideshow.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: May 26, 2017

Working with Lightroom

Topic: Step by Step instructions on how to install and test the ProSelect Plugin for Lightroom version 2.1 and earlier on (Mac and Windows) and 2.1.1 or later on Windows only.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Jul 15, 2015

Topic: After making minor adjustments to you images in Lightroom, you can easily export your images from Lightroom into ProSelect ready for your sales session

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Jul 25, 2015

SendMyRooms™ Client Connection

Topic: This is the movie that your clients can watch when they log into SendMyRooms.com. It explains how to take and upload photos.

Presenter: ProStudioSoftware.com
Date: May 11, 2017
Duration: 2:29

Topic: How to link your TimeExposure account to SendMyRooms and get started using the system. This explains how to verify your email account with Amazon SES and the other SendMyRooms settings options.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Jun 22, 2017

Topic: Learn the different ways you can send a fully customized invitation to your clients to use SendMyRooms.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Jun 28, 2017

Topic: Find out the different ways you can add Room images to ProSelect for use in Working with Rooms. It covers adding room images from SendMyRooms, an image in the album file and directly importing an image file. Also, see how to adjust the crop and tilt of the room image if necessary and finally how to calibrate the room for correct sizes including a way to easily check that your room calibration is correct.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Jul 25, 2017

Topic: If clients don't send you the best looking or aligned image of their rooms, this movie will show you how to quickly get them looking a good as possible for the viewing session.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: May 24, 2019
Duration: 6:02

Using Rooms and Room View Images

Topic: Snap to Grap technology allows for accurate spacing between elements added to a room. This same technique is used in the Template Editor for fast accurate template creation.

Presenter: ProStudioSoftware.com
Date: Sep 16, 2021
Duration: 3:36

Topic: Wall groupings are automatically spread apart using Dynamic Sizing. When frames and/or mats are added to a wall group layout, the images are moved to positions honoring the spacing gap from the template.

Presenter: ProStudioSoftware.com
Date: Sep 16, 2021
Duration: 3:30

Topic: Learn about Working with Rooms, how to add images and layouts to a room and controlling how they are re-sized and cropped. The movie also show how to export a sample image of your room design and add your room desigs to your Slideshow.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Oct 21, 2020
Duration: 10:07

Topic: Find out the different ways you can add Room images to ProSelect for use in Working with Rooms. It covers adding room images from SendMyRooms, an image in the album file and directly importing an image file. Also, see how to adjust the crop and tilt of the room image if necessary and finally how to calibrate the room for correct sizes including a way to easily check that your room calibration is correct.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Jul 25, 2017

Pricing and Ordering

Topic: It's easy to adding a discount to any ordered item when adding it to the shopping cart. Likewise you can apply a discount to the entire order with a few clicks. With ProSelect, you can show the "total savings" that the customer has received on their Order Report/Invoice and put an even bigger smile on their face.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: May 8, 2019
Duration: 1:32

Topic: Setting up your price list for print orders is easy. This movie explains about Print Paper Sizes, Presentation options, using different price lists and adding Print Extras to your price list

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Aug 28, 2018
Duration: 15:26

Topic: Find out the many ways that you can add a print order to your client's shopping cart in ProSelect

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: May 15, 2021
Duration: 4:26

Topic: If you are selling products that use a template, then these become layouts when added to the client's album file. This movie shows you how to set up price list items for layouts that you wish to order.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Sep 3, 2018
Duration: 8:59

Topic: Specialty Products are always a great add-on for your sales. This movie shows how you can show, sell and produce these products from image boxes to a photo coffee mug.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Apr 1, 2020
Duration: 16:53

Topic: Ron shows how you can create a Photoshop template for your packages, bring this into ProSelect to create an easy to show and sell these to your clients.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Jul 28, 2016

Topic: This video demonstrates another way to handle packages in ProSelect - this time using Order Adjustments.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Aug 4, 2016

Topic: See how easy it is to compare images, place orders, create invoices, order digital files and produce everything automatically using ProSelect Pro. Ron Nichols also shows how ProSelect easily integrates with StudioCloud management software.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Aug 17, 2016
Duration: 18:33

Topic: Now in ProSelect 2016r1 it's easy to order prints of any size and aspect ratio without needing to add that size to your price list.

Presenter: ProStudioSoftware.com
Date: Mar 22, 2016

Topic: ProSelect 2016r1 supports countries where tax is included in your prices. Setup a tax included tax type and the included value of tax will be extracted a itemised on your Order Report/Invoice.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Mar 22, 2016

Topic: Credit Based pricing provide an alternative way to sell to your customers and is built into all versions of ProSelect from 2012r1. This system automatically provides a discount on the total order once certain order levels are reached.

Presenter: Peter Howlett
Date: Jan 1, 2012

Selling and Producing Digital Files

Topic: This movie will show you how to take advantage of the digital files ordering in ProSelec.. It covers how to setup digital file order groups in your price list, how to add digital file orders to your shopping cart and how to include the appropriate licensing information on your Order Report/Invoice.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Jun 1, 2019

Templates

IMPORTANT: Template Styles have been replaced with Mats in ProSelect 2018r1. Mats are now setup under the Resources menu (rather than the Templates menu) because they can be applied to both prints and layouts. Applying a mat as an "Inner Mat" to a layout or book page works the same way as styles worked in earlier versions. However, mats have much more design options than Template Styles. See the section "Designing & Applying Mats" for more about using these.

Topic: Ron Nichols shows how to add custom color backgrounds to Image Block templates.   This video shows WHCC products, but can be done with other lab products.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Oct 7, 2021
Duration: 4:16

Topic: Snap to Grap technology allows for accurate spacing between elements added to a room. This same technique is used in the Template Editor for fast accurate template creation.

Presenter: ProStudioSoftware.com
Date: Sep 16, 2021
Duration: 3:36

Topic: Using a combination of Overlays and Shape Masks, you can create just about any product for ProSelect. This video shows the creation of specialty frames.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Sep 16, 2021
Duration: 8:10

Topic: Template opening sizing and alignment is easily accomplished in redesigned 2020r1 Template Editor. Learn how to use these tools precisely and efficiently in template creation.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Nov 5, 2020
Duration: 16:18

Topic: Ron show you have to bring in a Photoshop image into the Template Editor and use this as a design reference for creating som Facebook banner templates.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Sep 29, 2020
Duration: 18:05

Topic: Find out how image attributes can be applied to individual openings in templates for unique and diversified designs.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Sep 23, 2020
Duration: 11:59

Topic: Learn the essentials of guides, grids and measurement tools introduced in the version 2020r1 Template Editor. With an understanding of how these tools interact, template creation is simplified and more accurate

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Sep 15, 2020
Duration: 8:37

Topic: Version 2020r1 introduced a redesigned Template Editor.   You’ll learn a quick and easy processes for creating a template, starting from the Template Manager.   This video is a quick overview to get you started with template creation and should be watched prior to viewing other 2020r1 or later template videos.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Sep 10, 2020
Duration: 14:07

Topic: Specialty Products are always a great add-on for your sales. This movie shows how you can show, sell and produce these products from image boxes to a photo coffee mug.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Apr 1, 2020
Duration: 16:53

Topic: Ron shows how to convert a set of Mini-Accordion Book Photoshop files (from WHCC) into a format for ProSelect to use, how to set them up in ProSelect, use them during your sales session for designing the final product, then finally running Production to produce the final lab-ready files.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Sep 21, 2019
Duration: 30:49

Topic: Learn how to use the Template Editor to design a Traditional Matted Layout then use that template to create and order a beautiful product. Then how to use High-Res Production to produce either individual prints or an all in one sheet for easy mounting. Finally producing a Mat Report to send to your frame with your exact design dimensions.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Nov 10, 2018
Duration: 14:04

Topic: In ProSelect 2018r1, you can use shape mask files to create unique wall mounted products and die cut card products. This second movie explains how this works and how to convert lab provided die cut files to use as shapes in ProSelect.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Jul 1, 2018
Duration: 16:58

Topic: The first in a two-part movie series on creating and using non-rectangular shapes templates for wall displays. This one covers using the new built-in opening shape options in ProSelect 20

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Apr 18, 2018
Duration: 13:21

Topic: How to take advantage of the huge on-line range of graphic images available to all TimeExposure PLUS members. You can use them for everything from slideshow backgrounds to creating unique saleable products to add extra income to each sale.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Jul 10, 2017

Topic: Ron Nichols shows you how easy it is to create layouts and composite products and have Photoshop automatically build these products in seconds using ProSelect Pro.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Aug 17, 2016
Duration: 10:12

Topic: ProSelect allows you to better manage which templates you have access to when designing layouts or books. You can set template categories to be available in Layouts, Books or both. You can now also select to show templates from multiple selected groups together.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Mar 22, 2016

Topic: How to add a Photoshop holiday card into ProSelect so you can show and sell these as easy add-ons during your in person sales session.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Oct 14, 2015

High Resolution Production Workflow

Topic: ProSelect 2019r2's new automatic pretouching features not only you save time before the sales session but can also reduce your post-sales work time by carrying your selected pretouch settings into your High-Res Production workflow. This video covers the different ways that you can partially or fully apply Perfectly Clear Retouching during the production of your final images.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Aug 19, 2019
Duration: 23:02

Topic: ProSelect 2019r2's new automatic pretouching features not only you save time before the sales session but can also reduce your post-sales work time by carrying your selected pretouch settings into your High-Res Production workflow. This video covers the different ways that you can work with Lightroom to apply Perfectly Clear Retouching during the production of your final images.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Aug 31, 2019
Duration: 6:07

Topic: Ron Nichols guides your through how to use ProSelect Pro's Hi-Res Production system to automate the production of your ordered images. Covers re-touching workflow, using custom actions, automatic text replacement and more.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: May 28, 2014

ProSelect Books and Albums

Topic: See the power and speed of the ProSelect working with books mode. This powerful album creator can replace all your other album building software.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Aug 17, 2016

Topic: Setting up new Book Designs is easy once you have the book size information. This movie shows you how to find and interpret the page size specifications from your supplier to create the book design in ProSelect.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Sep 18, 2019

Topic: Hundreds of Lab and Album supplier Book Designs are now available within ProSelect. Simply choose the supplier, the style of book, then the size. You're ready to design.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Nov 7, 2020
Duration: 5:27

The Successful In-Person Sales Session

Topic: Ron Nichols keynote presentation at IUSA 2021 gives you the proven steps to a successful Portrait Sales Presentation.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Mar 26, 2021
Duration: 44:02

Backup and Sharing Data

Topic: Find out how to easily copy your ProSelect Setup data to a new or second computer manually.

Presenter: ProStudioSoftware.com
Date: Apr 3, 2019
Duration: 7:30

Topic: Find out how you can share your ProSelect prices and template data across multiple computers in a single location or across multiple physical locations.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: May 24, 2015

Frames

Topic: Using a combination of Overlays and Shape Masks, you can create just about any product for ProSelect. This video shows the creation of specialty frames.

Presenter: Ron Nichols
Date: Sep 16, 2021
Duration: 8:10