News and Information about Allen Christopher Event PhotographySoftware http://www.allenchristopher.com/news.html Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:00:00 EST PrintRipper 1.2.1 addresses an orientation issue where some photos from select cameras would not show proper orientation for portrait shots. http://www.allenchristopher.com/printripper.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST WARWICK, New YorkÑFebruary 9th, 2010ÐAllen Christopher today announced the cross-platform release of PrintRipperª 1.2 , the automated on-demand photo-finishing tool for Event Photographers. With over one-dozen major improvements, PrintRipperª automates the process of chroma key, event borders, watermarking, color effects and adjustment, printing, and saving image files. This allows photographers to do what they do bestÐTake more pictures. With PrintRipperª , you can assign a variety of image manipulation options to individual process folders (hot-folders/drop-folders). The process is on-demand and completely automated It can be set for print output, digital output, or both. PrintRipperª allows the event photographer to process all photos, or just the ones they want. PrintRipperª Features Automated Image Manipulation Chroma Key (green screen). Crop and print photos to any size. Watermark your photos. Add event borders to your photos. Adjust photo color, brightness, contrast, and saturation. Use color effects making photos Black and White, Sepia, and Duotones Add white frame to photo. Automated Processing You have the option of approving or rejecting photos for processing (Manual feature). You have the option of approving or rejecting photos for processing (Manual feature). Process is hot folder triggered. Create as many hot folders as needed. Archives original photo (edited version does not affect original photo). Instead of printing photos Ð you can save digital composites of your photos for web, CD, or memory card distribution. Keep track of photos processed with the built-in counter. Run multiple processes simultaneously. Track errors (corrupt photos) without interrupting running processes. System requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later (Intel/PPC) Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7, 32 or 64 bit versions 500MHz or faster processor 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended) 70MB of available disk space PrintRipperª is the ultimate on-demand photo finishing tool that no event photographer should be without. PrintRipperª is available immediately for download and purchase at the Allen Christopher, Inc. website for $139.99 USD. Come join us. Our goal is to provide you with the tools needed to allow you to concentrate on what you do bestÑtake pictures. About Allen Christopher, Inc. Allen Christopher brings over a decade of experience of programming and technical to the Event Photography Industry. With its cross-platform release of PrintRipperª, Allen Christopher has set the stage for an aggressive release schedule to round out a full suite of tools for the event photographer. Press Contact: Christopher Rosado Allen Christopher, Inc. Info(at)AllenChristopher(dot)com http://www.allenchristopher.com/printripperpress.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST Learn a few new tricks with PrintRipper, the ultimate on-demand photo finishing tool for Event Photography, straight from the creators. PrintRipperª User Guide: Tips (Image Assembly, Process Folders) PrintRipperª Tips In this section, we will explain some fundamental principles of how PrintRipperª assembles output, uses folders for triggering processes, and ideas on how you can use PrintRipperª to save you time and effort. Image Assembly Like many image editing programs, PrintRipperªassembles your output in layers. Layers, top to bottom: ¥ Watermark ¥ Border ¥ Your Photo ¥ Chroma Key Background Even though each layer is intended for a general purpose, there is nothing from keeping you from creating more complex and creative elements with these layers. For example, you can add additional complexity by using the Borders layer as an additional Chroma Key overlay, while using your Watermark layer for applying your border. Getting any ideas yet? Process Folders Until this point, we have assumed that any Process Folder you have created reside on the same computer that is running PrintRipperª. This does not have to be the case. You can use any folder as a process folder: WebDav, network folder, or otherwise. This idea opens up very powerful possibilities. Example: Shooting in one location, Printing in another You are tethered to a computer in one location and PrintRipperª is running on a computer in another location. You have a wired or wireless network set up so these systems can share files. You can share your PrintRipperª Process folder(s) with your tethered computer. Your tethered computer can save photos to the shared Process folder, triggering processes over your network. Example: Shooting an all-digital event with previews to be viewed on your website You are shooting an event that does not require on-demand prints, but wish to quickly post your work on a web site. In addition, you wish to watermark your work to protect your work. You would first create a process with your intended output size and load your watermark into PrintRipperª. Depending on the sophistication of your site, you can tie your PrintRipperª Composites folder to your site, where your photos can be displayed or you can batch upload them manually to your site when you are ready. Example: Linking Processes for ÒPackage PrintingÓ or complex output Package Output LetÕs say that you want to print a 5x7 and 8x10 package for your customers. With Printripperª, this is easily done. ¥ Create your first process, your 5x7 print, as an example. ¥ In this 5x7 process, make the ÒSave CompositesÓ feature active. ¥ Create your second process, your 8x10 print, as an example. ¥ For this process, make the 5x7Õs Archive folder your process folder. ¥ Tether or drop your photos into your 5x7 process folder and PrintRipperª will process the 5x7 print first and then the 8x10 print once the photo reaches the 5x7 archive folder. You can do this with different printers or even a single printer capable of printing different sizes. Shared Printers This is one of our favorite examples. With PrintRipperª, you can use any printer that is available to your computer: local, networked, or shared. For example, you could tether to mobile computer, like the Viliv S5, also running PrintRipperª. On another computer, you can share the printer desired ¥ Set up your PrintRipperª mobile computer with the settings you wish to use. ¥ Make sure the desired shared printer is available and visible to your mobile computer. ¥ Choose the shared printer in your PrintRipperª SetupÕs general tab. You can take this a step further by activating the processÕ ÒManual ApprovalÓ feature, allowing you to shoot the photo, show it to your customer, and either approve or reject the photo. http://www.allenchristopher.com/guide/page15.html Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:00:00 EST MacWorld UK, Germany's MacUp include PrintRipper in their Autumn publications. http://www.allenchristopher.com/news.html Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:00:00 EST We were pleased to hear that the reviewers at Softsea.com gave a warm welcome to the release of PrintRipper. http://www.softsea.com/review/PrintRipper.html