FotoWare's FotoStation Pro 5.1 Imaging Solution

[Suhit Gupta]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.biosmagazine.co.uk/rev.php?id=155' target='_blank'>http://www.biosmagazine.co.uk/rev.php?id=155</a><br /><br /></div><i>"FotoWare's FotoStation Pro 5.1 is a high-end imaging and archiving software solution. Don't let that put you off though - the software is a breeze to use and in no time at all authorised users on your network will be able to search, share and organise a central pool of digital files. FotoStation Pro also allows you to edit images, add or change text, acquire files from media, send files by e-mail or via FTP, as well as create actions for automatic workflow and batch processing. The software's real strength is its search tools, however, which make light work of sorting files by attributes, image similarity or text content."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/FotoStation-Pro-5.1_5.jpg" /><br /><br />The only unfortunate thing about this software, as far as I can tell is the enormous cost. I did not think anything could beat Photoshop, but FotoStation Pro costs a whopping �£599 (over $1000). Version 4.5 is the low cost product; however, they have, with versions 5.0 and 5.1, introduced a ton of features that professional photographers, especially those that need to catalog lots of images, will appreciate.

[Crocuta]

I read through the review, and it certainly sounds powerful, but it sounds pretty much overpriced to me. I don't see much it can do that IMatch (http://www.photools.com/) can't. I only recently tried IMatch after some people here recommended it and it is great. It's extremely powerful and flexible and only costs around $50. I had used Photoshop Album before, but this is orders of magnitude better and definitely suitable for professionals with tens or hundreds of thousands of photos. Before plonking down $1,000 on PhotoStation, check out IMatch and see if it meets your needs.