Canon Studio Solution Brochure

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“Canon Explorers of Light” is a select group of photographers who shoot
with Canon EOS System cameras. They are among the top photographers
in the world and work in diverse photographic disciplines including
journalism, nature, fashion, fine-art, portrait and commercial.

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TAKE YOUR STUDIO TO NEW
HEIGHTS OF EFFICIENCY, QUALITY
AND PROFITABILITY.

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Your creative talents and photographic knowledge
have brought you this far on your journey. What
you need to take your business to the next level is
an all-encompassing solution that makes your
operation more efficient, much easier to manage
and stress free...enabling you to focus on what’s
truly important: your photography.

Canon’s Studio Solution is powerful software that
combines the functions of many of the separate
software applications typically used in a
professional photo studio. Moreover, it integrates
all of your Canon hardware, image files, customer
and business data, and studio management tools
into a single, easy-to-use workflow application.
Canon’s Studio Solution dramatically streamlines
your business and helps to maximize your income,
helping

you make the most of the time and expense

you invest in your studio.

Photo Library

Reports

Calendar

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A Comprehensive Solution for Studio Management

From Greeting to Invoice, a Smooth
Workflow that Maximizes Your
Time, Boosts Sales and Ensures

Customer Satisfaction.

From the time your customer engages your services
to the time the product is delivered and billed,
Canon’s Studio Solution works with you to make
sure you and your staff are making the mostefficient
use of time. Workflow operations — from staff
scheduling to image capture, photo retouching to
printing, inventory control to supplies ordering,
client presentation and sales to invoicing — are
all simplified and largely automated by Canon’s
Studio Solution software. Customer, employee and
image information are maintained in a central
database for easy access and seamless integration.
At every step along the way,
Canon’s Studio Solution
gives you full control while
enabling you to build a
seamlessly integrated,
highly efficient business.

Save Time, Save Money.

Consider all the different
software titles a typical
photo studio might use for
its daily operation. Specific
programs are required to
maintain customer and vendor databases and
enable scheduling. Other programs are required
for digital image capture and retouching. Still
others are needed for organizing and archiving
image libraries. Presenting the images to
clients, taking and fulfilling orders, and billing
for your products and services also typically
require additional software. Moreover, in many
cases, these software tools run on separate
computers that do not “talk” to each other.

The cost for such setups is high, not only because
numerous software titles must be purchased,
installed and maintained by trained operators, but
also because their task-dedicated nature creates
gaping inefficiencies in the workflow. Canon’s
Studio Solution puts an end to wasted time
and money by consolidating, integrating and
simplifying. The software has power built-in to
handle your studio’s many needs, yet it gives
you a simplified, smooth interface designed to
enhance your workflow, not get in the way.

Canon Image Quality from Capture to Print.

Canon’s Studio Solution image processing employs
nothing less than state-of-the-art, proprietary
Canon technologies. You put these technologies

to work the moment you
press the shutter release
button on your Canon EOS
Digital SLR. Whether you
shoot RAW or JPEG, Studio
Solution provides a trans­parent, non-destructive
image processing workflow
that ensures outstanding
photographs and a brilliant
finished product for your
customer. With RAW

images, Studio Solution
makes full use of Canon Digital Photo Professional
(DPP) technology. It comprises a processing
engine that employs Canon proprietary algorithms
to maintain the highest bit depth and widest color
gamut. The resulting images are spectacular —
exquisite in resolution, dynamic range and tonal
subtleties. The RAW workflow also gives you
access to many easy-to-use tools and controls,
like Canon Picture Styles, which greatly
simplify adjustments and enhancements

during image processing. For JPEG shooting,
advanced Canon EOS Digital SLR camera tech­nologies, such as in-camera DIGIC Image
Processors, ensure superb image capture. Once
shot, or imported into Studio Solution, JPEG
captures are handled non-destructively to maintain
the highest possible image quality. Studio
Solution also gives you control over your Canon
imagePROGRAF and PIXMA Pro printers, maximizing
the remarkable capabilities of these printers to
ensure just as remarkable output. Canon image
processing comprises state-of-the-art color man­agement, which assures the most accurate and
vibrant color rendition. ICC profiles can be updated
as needed (e.g., typically only whenever a new media
type is added) to ensure consistent, precise color
output when using Canon professional printers.

Customizable and Scalable to Fit the Needs
of Your Studio, Today and Tomorrow.

Studio Solution can help you streamline your
business today, whether yours is a modest
operation or a larger studio with many employees.
The software can be installed and used on a single
personal computer, or it can be configured for use

on multiple networked workstations. Start building
your customer base, or easily import information
from existing databases. Because the software is
server-based, network-friendly and completely
scalable, it will work with you and help you make
critical transitions as your business grows.

Maximize Your Staff’s Time and Talents.

Employee management is an important part
of running any business, and Studio Solution puts
you in charge. Using a simple, intuitive interface,
you can enter all pertinent employee information.
Alternately, if you already have employee infor­mation entered in another application that can

export .csv files, you can save time by importing
that existing database directly into Studio
Solution. Employees can then be assigned specific
roles — for example, photographer, manager, or
sales staff — which the software can then use to
help you with task scheduling and controlling
administrative rights and permissions. You can also
assign work hours to create ongoing staff schedules.

Maintain and Fully Leverage a
Comprehensive Customer Database.

As with employee information,
Studio Solution lets you enter or
import customer information into
its database. In addition to basic
contact information, the software can also keep
track of your customers’ birthdays, and can
link family members. Because a high-powered
relational SQL database engine is at the heart of
Studio Solution management tools, your customer
information is permanently linked to pertinent
image, employee and calendar data for easy
retrieval and reporting.

Easy-to-Use Calendar-Based
Work Scheduling.

The powerful Calendar tool in Studio Solution
simplifies important business functions and
provides many useful ways to view the work
schedule. Appointments and booking can be

made directly via
the Calendar. A
studio manager
can then assign
the required staff
and reserve the
needed room or
space for the
anticipated time

slot. An automatic
confirmation call reminder feature makes a calendar
entry one day prior to the shoot so that your staff
can contact customers to minimize no-shows. If
you reschedule the booking, the confirmation call
reminder will automatically update. The Calendar
provides numerous useful views of your studio’s
schedule. Not only can you view events by day,
week, month, etc., you can also call up customized
views, such as “Fridays for the entire month.”

Reports to Help You Run a More
Profitable Business.

Because Studio Solution keeps track of inventory
and sales in addition to customer and employee
data, it can generate powerful reports that you
can use to analyze and streamline your business.
Such reports can help you make important
decisions, such as what products and services
should be added or deleted from your offerings
and what you should charge for them.

Full Control Over Rights and Permissions.

Studio Solution gives you, as system administrator,
complete power over rights
and permissions based on
the roles you assign to your
staff members. For example,
although a photographer on
your staff would be able to
see the original shoot booking
and any associated special customer requirements,
the level of access to the software would prevent
them from making changes to the original order.
In this manner, you can fully control the studio
workflow in a networked environment, assigning
functionality as required for specific staff roles.

Customer Database

“

Canon’s Studio Solution software has made running
my business a breeze. With great image control
and organization, as well as full-featured reporting,
my studio runs more efficiently than
ever! Canon has put my business
management and imaging control in
one box...with the highest quality!”

Large Studios

Single/Onsite Studios

Small Studios

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Michele Celentano

Explorer of Light