Shared Catalogs
Work with a team of people? Need to work with the same catalogs at the same time as someone else on your team? Then shared catalogs are for you.
Photo Uploader
Need to submit your great shots to an online stock photo agency, or just share your personal work of art with the world? We’ll help you get your shots online quickly and easily with the correct metadata and the right format.
Silverlight Web Galleries
Tired of dull, static grids of photos on your web site? Bring any of your shots to life with the power of Silverlight with a simple, small upload to your web site.
Hierarchical Keywording
Life’s complicated. Describe all the layers that your photos represent. Don’t just tag your picture saying that its from Europe: tell your friends that it’s from Europe, the UK, and London, and Chelsea, and Battersea, at 30-40 Echo Street, upstairs and to the right!
Faster Performance
Many of our under-the-cover changes make Expression Media 2 even faster than before - In some cases by a factor of 10! Core activities like importing media, building catalogs arid creating thumbnails will all be more productive.
Multi-Monitor Light Table
Increase your triage productivity with your Light Table open on one monitor while your catalog and tools are up on another. No need to switch back and forth between views.
New File Formats
Preview, thumbnail, search, and annotate a wide range of formats, including XAML, Silverlight, Expression Design, HTML, CSS, the new OpenXML from Microsoft Office 2007 and Office 2008 for the Mac, and more. See a preview of these files along with their annotations In your catalogs just like your photos.
Geotagging
Let people know where your images are from. Geotag your images to an actual location anywhere on earth with Virtual Earth GPS mapping, which works with popular GPS logfile formats.
RAW formats
Use professional quality RAW format importing (using either Windows Imaging Component on Windows or Corelmage processing on the Mac) to work with files from the most popular professional and prosumer digital cameras.
Catalog Media Visually
Expression Media enables you to create visual databases of media, called catalogs, containing references of up to 128,000 files per catalog. Store your files anywhere: shared folders, CDs, hard drives, or DVDs, and use integrated search tools to can find them in seconds - Expression Media will keep track of them all.
Offline Workflow
Even when your originals are offline, Expression Media's visual catalogs allow you to browse, search, and annotate your assets.
Organise Quickly
Drag-and-drop organiser allows you to quickly and easily import, organise, annotate and classify large volumes of your digital media files. Expression Media includes file system integration features, such as automatic synchronisation and folder watching.
Browse and Play Media (100+ formats)
Five different views to review images, listen to music or watch movies: List, Thumbnail, Media, Lightbox and Slide Show. Search and sort media by any criteria and even rename media files and folders directly within Expression Media.
Review, Compare, Edit and Enhance
Select up to six files to compare side-by-side in full screen view. Built-in Image Editor provides a wide array of tools, from cropping and red-eye removal to creating duotones and adjusting color balance and several auto enhancements for quick and easy touch ups of your images. Includes support for built-in color profiles for greater color accuracy throughout the creative process.
Add and Edit Metadata
Extract or create thumbnail and preview images from your digital files for quick visual cataloging. Import or export, add or edit metadata from those files for fast searching and sorting. Utilise industry standard metadata formats like EXIF, IPTC, and XMP for faultless interchange with other creative applications.
Print, Repurpose, and Convert
Produce high-quality contact sheets and prints of any size and layout. Easy WYSIWYG printing with annotations, grids, headers and footers. Perform single or batch conversions of images, movies and audio files to a variety of formats, including for use in Microsoft Silverlight experiences (Windows only feature).
Present and Share
Publish and distribute media with cross-platform slide shows, video, and Web galleries, or quickly export media into multiple formats for delivery to your client. Use professionally designed templates, or modify them to suit your own style with customised timings, grids, transitions and even enhanced audio playback for background soundtracks. Effortlessly distribute your catalogs for viewing by anyone with the freely-downloaded Expression Media Reader.
Archive and Backup
Archive and backup all your prized digital media files, folders and catalogs to CD, DVD, hard disk or any mountable volume.
Automate Tasks and Workflow
Nearly every feature can be batched making your workflow efficient and cost effective. The flexible, streamlined automation tools make organising, editing, repurposing, distributing and archiving digital images nearly effortless. Expression Media also has rich scripting capabilities, and can also be easily integrated with third-party application and tools.
Microsoft Windows– based PCs
- Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista operating system
- PC with 1 GHz or faster processor
- 1 GB of RAM or more
- 100 MB of available hard-disk space
- Support for Microsoft DirectX® 9.0 graphics with Windows Vista Display Driver Model (WDDM) Driver, 128 MB of graphics RAM or more, Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware, 32-bits per pixel
- Windows Imaging Components (WIC) is required. Some WIC codecs are from third parties and may have unique system requirements. Some WIC codecs may not be available for Windows XP or 64-bit version of Windows operating systems
- DVD-Rom drive
- 1024 x 768 or higher--resolution monitor with 24-bit color
- Some product features require Adobe Reader 7.0 or later, and Apple QuickTime 7.3.1 or later
- Internet functionality requires Internet access (additional fees may apply)
(Actual requirements and product functionality may vary based on your system configuration and operating system).
Apple Macintosh computers
- Mac OS X version 10.4 or later
- PowerPC or Intel processor
- 512 MB of RAM or more
- 100 MB of available hard disk space
- Monitor set to Millions of Colors
- Apple QuickTime 7.3.1 or later
- Internet functionality requires Internet access (additional fees may apply)
(Actual requirements and product functionality may vary based on your system configuration and operating system)