dScope Imaging


dScope For Schools & Groups Photography


	School Photographers

	Wedding & Portrait Photographers

	Kindergarten Photographers

	Retail Minilabs

	Wholesale Pro Labs

Schools photography is a business which is changing very quickly as a result of the capabilities offered by digital formats. Organisations who offer their customers simple packages and three week (or more) turnaround will be quickly pushed out of the market by the newer aggressive organisations. Similarly, the organisations using older labour intensive processes will find that they are unable to compete with organisations which use technology to perform most of the imaging work.

A typical dScope implementation for a school photography organisation will include dScope Core, the Combifit module, the Packages module and the Schools and Groups Module. Other modules that organisations may use are the Shoot Manager and dScope Online.

dScope works to remove all the labour intensive work out of the business process and uses technology to perform these functions more quickly and efficiently. It uses a workflow approach that allows users to follow a series of steps to prepare for the shoot, capture the images, create the product and then print and collate the product. The steps in the system can be customised to match the workflow used within your organisation so that the cost and trauma involved in the changeover to dScope can be minimised.

The screen on the left shows a typical workflow that has been setup for a schools photography customer and leads them through the process from importing the school's data through to the printing and collating of the product.

This workflow utilises many capabilities and components of dScope to perform the required functions. There are also a number of tools available to quickly perform functions that traditionally cost large amounts of time and money such as merging and splitting of classes for composites, changing the case of the student names across a whole class or school, and exporting images under the student name or student ID's.

Typical Workflow Example For School Photography

One Of Three Available Capture Methods For School Photography

In a typical school shoot, dScope will allow you to perform the following functions:

	Design appropriate package pages and combine those pages in different ways to create the offerings that will be available to the customers.
	Import all the data available from the school and use it to create a structure ready to capture the images.
	Capture the student and group images using one of three capture methods depending on the school and shoot requirements.
	Capture the order information for each child at the time of the shoot, or at a later stage.
	Create draft group images with full name lists within seconds of the shoot so that proofing can take place on site.
	Combine all the results from multiple work stations to create a structure that covers the whole school.
	Compare and adjust all the images for each class to assure image quality and consistency.
	Design and build the group images.
	Design and build the composite images, including rotating composites.
	Print and collate the products

The dScope Shoot Manager can also be used to manage your customer relationships, support your sales process and analyse the value of a customer over multiple years and shoots.

The dScope Online solution is also available to place the images onto the web and accept orders online.

dScope Online

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