ProSelect Features List

Below is a list of some of the main features included in ProSelect Basic and ProSelect Pro1. (Hi-lighted items are those that are different between versions.)

For more details, please refer to the documentation included with the downloaded package or the separate PDF files from the downloads page.

Sales Features

Basic

Pro

  Mac and Windows compatible
  Slideshow with your music
  Yes, Maybe, No selection
  One-click or custom Pretouching to get your images looking great in seconds7
  Instant apply a Customised B&W or Special Tint effect
  Setup & Use Photoshop Actions within ProSelect (maximum)2 5 100
  Make Changes in Photoshop
  Compare Multiple images
  Import Images from Lightroom using free plugin
  Import Videos from Lightroom using free plugin -
  Variable Thumbnail sizes
  Dynamically Filter Images to only show ordered, unordered & favorite images
  Fast operation with extensive right-click menu and shortcut key support
  Apply virtual crops to any shape on individual images or in bulk
  Lock custom crops to work with long side sizing and ordering
  Huge scalable and fixed size template library included
  Design your own templates
  Design & add professional mats to prints & layouts
  Design Gallery Wrap Canvases
  Mat overlap automatically allowed for & show on displayed products
  Support for fillets on mat designs
  Project prints at actual size
  Project prints on a room image
  Build and show Traditional Matted Layouts
  Build and show Composite Layouts
  Project layouts at actual size
  Project layouts on a room image
  Design & show client wall galleries designs (maximum) 1 10+
  Project Wall Galleries at actual size
  Add notes to images, layouts, rooms & orders
  Apply high-key or low-key vignettes to selected images
  Add frames to prints & layouts
  Show "Photographer's favorites" with a stamp or logo on images or layouts
  Protect your images with Watermarking during a remote viewing session
  Create complete, pre-designed products with a frames & mats
  Export your completed room designs as a image
  Adjust Wall Grouping layouts on the fly as you add mats & frames
  Separate Wall Groupings into prints for individual sizing, matting, framing and ordering
  Design, show & sell any shaped wall product include round items
  Design, show & sell die cut card products of any shape
  Auto-backup of session changes
  Use a secondary client screen of any size
  Fully color-managed for accurate color display of images
  Setup & use custom frame images (maximum) 12 300
  Arrange frames into arbitrary groups e.g. by supplier, color or quality -
  Watch folder auto-loading of images (for tethered shooting) -
  Use Credit Based Pricing with automatic conversion rate breakpoints
  Play background music during presentation -
  Set background music to play in a random order -
       

Slideshow Features

Basic

Pro

  Setup different Music Groups for different clients
  Sync slideshows to music
  Play a slideshow with single mouse click
  Design custom slideshows for viewing or export (maximum per job) 1 5
  Add title slides to your custom slideshows
  Use slideshow templates to quickly prepopulate sophisticated slideshow content
  Automatically include all Favorite items in a slideshow segment
  Export a slideshow as a HD movie playable on computers & mobile devices6
  Automatically build your one or more slideshow structures for each new client 1 5
  Automatically play slideshow images in a random order for maximum interest
  Add text layers to title slides -
  Support Ken Burn Effects in slideshows (slow panning & zooming) -
  Create mutli-segment slideshows with different speeds, music, efftects etc -
  Add video clips to your custom slideshows -
  Merge video sound and background music -
  Make virtual copies of videos -
  Edit Videos (adjust in & out points, set thumbnails) -
  Open Videos in Photoshop5 -
       

Ordering Features

Basic

Pro

  Up to 10 different price lists
  Unlimited individual orders
  Supports tax (single & dual and included options)
  Print order report with thumbnail images
  Prices adjustable while ordering
  Record payments
  Apply discounts to whole order as flat amount or percentage
  Apply discounts to items as flat amount or percentage
  Quick Add items to order from main window
  Export Orders to other applications including most Studio Management Systems
  Add custom logo to printed reports
  Automatic frame & mat pricing based on size or area
  Order frames & mats associated with each product
  Print an Ordered Frames Report for tracking frame orders
  Order Digital Files at a per image or per set or images price
  Create & order Custom Products on-the-fly
  Import pre-payment invoices from StudioCloud
  Generate product codes for easier synching with Studio Management Systems
  Print an Ordered Mat Report with multi-layer mat cutting data -
       

Book Designing Features

Basic

Pro

  Design composite books (single & double-sided) -
  Design matted books (single & double-sided) -
  Setup Book Designs for most suppliers and book formats -
  Save pages in a Book as a group of templates for re-use -
  Auto-populate a book from a group of selected images -
  Auto-build a book from a template and a group of selected images -
  Use smart filters to match selected images to suitable templates -
  Optionally hide images already used to speed up your designing -
  Stretch Overlay Images (Photoshop templates) to fit any book size -
  Combine single-sided pages into doublespreads 4 -
  Apply Inner Mats to one or more pages to instantly theme book -
  Save a complete book as a set of templates for easy re-use -
  Copy entire books to produce different versions (at different sizes) of the same book -
  Design & show muliple books per client - 5
       

Workflow Features

Basic

Pro

  Imports .jpg, .tif or .psd files
  Auto-rotate from camera
  Sort images by capture time
  Export low res sample images & layouts
  Add copyright stamps to sample images & layouts
  Easily update your designs with your retouched images
  Export and upload to Animoto (requires free Upload Manager)
  Delete orginal images (including raws) at the same time
  Efficiently manage production workflow -
  Open Raw files in Photoshop or Lightroom3 -
  Carry applied Pretouching through to final images & digital files7 -
  Open Original files in Photoshop with Retouching applied in a separate layer7 -
  Generate ordered Hi-res print files2 -
  Integrate with Perfectly Clear Complete in Photoshop/Lightroom7 -
  Simplify assembly of matted products with in position, floated Prints & Layouts -
  Produce composites with overlay images -
  Produce composites with background images -
  Export Collections (templates, mats, rooms, titleslides, slideshow styles etc) -
  Automatically add vignettes to Hi-res images -
  Export Surrounding mats as virtual mats on prints & composite layouts -
  Apply logos to Hi-res images -
  Apply logos to Hi-res Layouts - one per layout or one per image -
  Produce Hi-Res images as layered Photoshop files -
  Create production package for external retouchers -
  Apply custom Actions to Hi-Res images -
  Produce Gallery Wrap Canvas images -
  Supports Custom Final Images for B&W and Special Tint Workflow -
       

Sharing Data between computers

Basic

Pro

  Album files can be opened on both Mac & Windows
  Album files are "self contained" storing all sales data for each job
  Share setup data via a shared folder or DropBox (simple sharing option)
  Share setup data via a permissions-based server (for larger installations)
       

1 The features in earlier versions of ProSelect Basic & ProSelect Pro are different to those shown above which is for the latest version
2 Custom Effects and Production functions require Photoshop CC
3 Requires ProSelect Lightroom Plugin (free download) to use with Lightroom 3 or newer.
4 Not applicable for pages using Overlay Images
5 Requires Photoshop CC
6 Mac users need Mac OSX 10.12 or newer+ for exporting movies with Ken Burns Effects
7 Pretouching & Retouching (in ProSelect Pro) requires current PLUS subscription or current lease.