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Image Expert

20/20 Software is pleased to announce the stand-alone release of Image Expert, an advanced tool for image workflow, analysis, and processing. Image Expert has been an integrated part of 20/20's suite of Media Management software. Now, we are making this powerful program available to libraries, photographers, and others who don't use our complete system.

With Image Expert, you can test images against a set of acceptance rules, send reports to image suppliers, convert images between multiple formats, tag images, import and export IPTC/XMP metadata, rename images using renaming rules, and send images via simple copy or FTP. Image Expert gives you all the tools you need to prepare images for online commerce.

Image Expert is a MUST for picture libraries, museums, institutional photographic departments, and photographers!

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Ann Matchett

Alaska Stock Images

"The Image Expert is a great tool for our digital workflow needs. Being able to import/export metadata and rename image files is integral, and the Image Expert makes it fast and easy. Thanks 20/20!"

Kathy Bloom

Steve Bloom Images

"Image Expert provides something that I have long been searching for – a simple way to extract metadata from a batch of image files, edit, and replace the metadata specific for each image, including individual image reference numbers. The process is now completely streamlined and can be done in a matter of minutes rather than days - what a timesaver! An additional function that I find very handy is the ability to instantly extract a list of images in a folder into a spread sheet."

Catherine Converse

Minden Pictures

"Image Expert has quickly become our go-to for metadata ingestion and resizing large batches of images. In the past we were using multiple programs to achieve what the Image Expert does through one clearly laid out interface. Thanks to David and the rest of the team at 20/20 for streamlining our workflow and saving us time in the process."

Cherry Alexander

Bryan & Cherry Alexander Photography

"We find that Image Expert is useful for the tasks that no other software we have will do. We often have the task of reducing the size of archival TIFFs and changing the file names. PhotoShop can reduce the size, but we have always had to rename manually. Now, with Image Expert, we can do both in one simple, quick process â€“ and can do the whole process in a matter of minutes. It will save us a huge amount of time. Thanks David!"

Megan Plesea

Granger

"I'd been using four different software applications to accomplish what I now do with Image Expert in one fell swoop. The ability to automate the processing of large batches of images from start to finish with one program is a huge time saver. Thanks, David!"

Case Studies

Finding 14,000 Needles in a Very Large Haystack

20/20 Software provides image maintenance work for client picture libraries. One client had a list of 14,000 images that they needed to find and extract from their storage system with 225,000 folders and 5,000,000 images. Any method of doing so manually would have been extremely onerous.

Using 20/20's Image Expert, we were able to extract the 14,000 images in an unattended overnight process. We fed the list (a "control file") into the Image Expert, pointed it at the storage unit, and told it to find those images and copy them to an external USB. We also instructed the Image Expert to export the metadata for those 14,000 into a text file. The next morning, all 14,000 images were on the USB, along with a metadata file.

Updating Metadata to Meet the Needs of an Image Supplier

A picture library was informed by one of their suppliers that the supplier had changed the name of the company and needed all the IPTC metadata updated in the picture library's image repository. 20/20's website and admin software can do this automatically on the fly, but the picture library also needed it done to the 25,000 archival TIFF's from that supplier, stored locally on a large storage unit.

The library exported the supplier's metadata from 20/20's admin system [if you don't have 20/20's admin system, you would get the list of files from your own metadata system]; then they downloaded the resulting text file, and fed it into the Image Expert, asking it to update the metadata on the archival TIFF's. The Image Expert did this in less than 15 minutes.

Automated Ingestion of New Imagery

Picture libraries are now able to fully automate the ingestion of new images to their website. An agency with the full 20/20 system uses the Image Expert to analyze a folder of newly arrived images. All images that don't match the agency's criteria are moved to a separate folder, and a report is sent to the supplier. As soon as the analysis is done, the Image Expert converts the archival TIFF's to JPEG's and renames them according to the agency's internal naming convention.

Then the Image Expert FTP's the JPEG's to their website, where the 20/20 Admin system is alerted to the arrival of new images and ingests them into a holding area for editing. The Agency steps through the newly arrived images - checks the tags and captions, color corrects and/or crops if necessary, and publishes the images to the website. [If they had chosen, they could simply have the images go live immediately, bypassing the editing process.]

If you don't have the 20/20 Admin system, or a 20/20 Website, you can still use the Image Expert for the automation of analyzing, converting, and sending the images to your website.