Visual SKUs - Solutions for Product Images

The Visual SKUs Full-service Imaging Solution

Our Full-service Imaging Solution provides all the components necessary for successful product imaging. This fully outsourced solution efficiently produces thousands of high-quality images, without making significant demands on your internal resources – so you can concentrate on growing your business, not on worrying about product imaging.

Is the Full-service Imaging Solution for You?

The Full-service Imaging Solution will meet your product imaging needs if:

• High-quality product images are important to selling your products
• You require multiple images of your products, formatted to industry standards
• You do not have the resources or expertise needed to create these images in-house

Features and Benefits

The Full-service Imaging Solution includes five key features:

1. On-site or in-studio deployment
2. Image capture, management and synchronization software
3. Product photography
4. Image processing, formatting and delivery
5. Web-based project and image management system

These features are designed to ensure the following benefits:

• Convenience – allowing you to concentrate on running your business
• Productivity – ensuring projects are completed in a timely, economical manner
• Quality – providing images to meet internal specifications and industry standards
• Visibility – empowering you to monitor project status and image quality

Features

1. On-site and in-studio deployments

For an on-site deployment, Visual SKUs will assemble portable photography studios wherever your products are located. With an in-studio deployment, the photography will take place in one of our own imaging centers.

2. Image capture, management and synchronization software

The on-site photography studios and Visual SKUs imaging centers come equipped with computers running our own proprietary software, which manages key product imaging processes, such as:

• Associating images with product numbers, UPCs and image views
• Uploading captured images to the Image Management System
• Updating project information

3. Product photography

Our product imaging is entirely carried out by trained product photographers with the experience needed to produce all the high-quality images required, in a timely and efficient manner.

4. Image processing, formatting and delivery

Once captured, the images are uploaded to our Image Management System, for processing by our imaging technicians and for review by your staff. Once your images have been reviewed and approved, they will be formatted and delivered.

5. Web-based project and Image Management System

The process of project and image management and quality control is completed through the Web-based Image Management System. In addition to facilitating quality review, this system empowers your personnel in multiple locations to:

• Define and edit product categories, views and image information
• Manage product and UPC lists
• Generate project status reports

Benefits

Convenience

Because our Full-service Solution takes care of everything needed to produce high-quality product images, you can concentrate on running your business – without having to manage the intricacies of large-scale imaging projects.

Productivity

Our photography studios, techniques, workflows and software are all designed to operate as a cohesive system, producing images at a high daily rate – ranging from 100 images per day to well over 300.

Quality

We produce images to meet your internal specifications and any relevant industry standards. Furthermore, our systems are structured to only deliver images that have been approved by product managers within your organization.

Visibility

The Image Management System provides your personnel with full visibility into all aspects of your product imaging projects. It also allows them to update project, product and image information – in real-time, from wherever they are located.