PhotoShelter for Brands
PhotoShelter for Brands
About PhotoShelter for Brands
PhotoShelter, founded in 2005, is a leading digital asset management (DAM) solution that helps you organize, manage, distribute, share, and collaborate on digital content with your team. With over 5 billion assets securely managed and nearly 100 million annual downloads, PhotoShelter is the fastest, easiest, and most intuitive DAM solution to help you manage and automate your end-to-end content workflow, drive brand engagement, get better ROI from content, and improve team efficiency.
Key benefits of PhotoShelter for Brands
Organizations can upload their entire library of digital media content and categorize assets by topics and keywords for streamlined searchability.
Integrations such as Hootsuite, WordPress, and Slack can be added to simplify the workflows and connect existing accounts and into one central hub.
Users can create collections and galleries that fit their needs, as well as control access with PhotoShelter for Brands' unique stoplight-based permissions interface.
PhotoShelter for Brands provides access to download logs that let users keep a record of who has accessed the image library.
Users can allow or restrict downloads, set size limits, restrict the number of downloads, as well as set time limits and passwords for each file.
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- Industry: Publishing
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Libris and the LR plugin have become an important part of our daily workflow, with a few...
Reviewed on 2017/08/14
Ease of use and user-friendly access for our Art Teams.
Ease of use and user-friendly access for our Art Teams.
Pros
Extreme ease of use, excellent tagging options, relatively responsive website and LR plugin. Reasonably quick upload speeds. I am a staff photographer at a regional publisher with 6+ magazines in production. I use Libris daily to file 3-4 assignments a day, 5 days a week.
Cons
A few minor issues - Libris' plugin occasionally throws a Javascript framework error (I am running the latest version of Adobe LR CC as of 8'14'17) during uploads. Oddly it happens with only one or two files in random sets of photos, and will function perfectly for everything else. The LR plugin also does not quickly or reliably download and display Gallery/Collection links in the LR plugin while being used in the Export dialog in Lightroom.
A customizable "home page" or a way to default Admin accounts to redirect automatically to a collection or gallery would be nice when logging into Libris on the web - I would rather login and start at the top of the root folder of our Library vs the default splash page that I get now, as most of the time I login to Libris to fix a tag or confirm I've uploaded files correctly from LR. I access this page several times a day and any time savings here would pay dividends in the long run given how much I access Libris.
Overall, it's a great product that could use a little UI and interface streamlining to minimize the number of clicks that power users need to perform an action. Right click functionality (a la dropbox) would also be better/faster than the current "Actions" dropdown tab.
If possible, upload setting "profiles" (image quality, image sizing, watermarking, etc) in the Libris LR plugin would also save people like me some time. Thanks!
- Industry: Government Administration
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Photo Archiving/Organizing Must Have!
Reviewed on 2016/08/10
We use Libris for city government photo organizing/archiving. My department had over 5,000 photos...
We use Libris for city government photo organizing/archiving. My department had over 5,000 photos to organize and Libris helped a daunting task become manageable and achievable. Having a place to organize photos properly makes our department function more efficiently and smoothly; we get many requests for photos on a daily basis. Libris makes photos searchable and easily findable with metadata tagging and keywords, which we love. Libris employees were there for us every step of the way during the initial set-up process and are still there for us currently with any questions we have.
Pros
We most like Libris' functionality regarding photo organizing and sharing. Libris equips its users with a variety of ways to quickly upload photos and create a library structure that makes sense to your organization. We love the ability to tag photos in batch and personally add metadata to photos. This way, our photos are searchable, but also browsable through Libris' collections and galleries structure. Sharing photos is easy and super customizable as well. With the option to add passwords to galleries and set expiration dates for links we send to outside shareholders, we have more control over privacy and access to our photos. Through working with Libris, the customer service has been great. Questions are answered in a timely manner and the Libris staff is readily available through email or phone each day. We enjoyed our multiple training sessions and demos. The staff at Libris is willing to help in whatever way possible.
Cons
At times the software can run slow and I accidentally deleted 2,000 photos one time due to a display glitch on the backend site. After deleting the photos, I looked in the trash bin to find them but I could not, since there is no structure of collections or galleries in the trash bin. Instead, the photos were in the trash can in order according to date, which is not helpful when you already have other photos in the trash bin as well. I had no other choice but to re-upload the photos.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10
Not very practical
Reviewed on 2019/09/05
Libris hosts our photo library. Overall the experience using it has been incredibly frustrating. I...
Libris hosts our photo library. Overall the experience using it has been incredibly frustrating. I feel like I waste an incredible amount of time trying to find images that should be easy to access. Would not recommend this product.
Pros
Offers access to many photos, variable download size options
Cons
Search function is horrible (and didn't work at all the first 6 months or so we used the product, so Libris is ridiculously slow at fixing bugs), difficult to find specific images through navigation, multiple clicks required to access search, navigation is not intuitive, images look fuzzy before you download them so you can't tell the quality of the image without downloading it first, lightbox makes you select which box to save to each time, you're unable to put an image into lightbox unless you open the image first, it takes way too many clicks to do anything in this software.
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Libris by Photoshelter was just what we were looking for!
Reviewed on 2019/08/13
Using Libris as our digital asset management system has been a time saver. We are able to upload...
Using Libris as our digital asset management system has been a time saver. We are able to upload and share photos in light boxes to clients. We have control over what can be seen and what is archived. Our "best of" photos can be rated with a star. Photos can be tagged so that they are easy to find. This means that the Widener community can go on and easily find the photos that they need.
Pros
We needed to find a way to keep all of our photos safe so we wouldn't lose them in a hard drive crash, flood, or fire, etc. The software does everything that we need it to do— from rating, tagging, storing, and archiving, to sharing light boxes with clients. It is also very affordable.
Cons
At first there was a glitch in the way we wanted to share our photos, but Libris' support services worked with us to overcome that problem.
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A great product for managing your digital media, but does have some limitations.
Reviewed on 2016/10/10
First and foremost I have to say the customer service Photoshelter provides for Libris users is...
First and foremost I have to say the customer service Photoshelter provides for Libris users is absolutely wonderful. Their team gets back to you quickly with answers to your questions and is always pleasant to work with.
Libris truly shines in it's ability to easily organize and then later search for the images you need. You have the ability to set up the folder structure in any way that fits your needs (which is not something I say about the last product we were using) and the backend structure is so user friendly, it's a breeze to move collections, galleries, or even individual photos around after upload. All you need to do is grab them and drag and drop them into a different area.
On the search side of things, you have great control over the types of parameters you can give the search. Everything from searching for photos based on a specific orientation, to things photographed on certain dates...it's quite nice and the results are fast and (seemingly) very accurate.
Uploading is fast, and has a number of potential ways it can be integrated into your workflow, including a lightroom plugin.
As much as we like Libris overall, it is not without it's limitations and there are a couple of big ones we hope are eventually addressed.
The biggest one for us at the moment is Libris' inability to allow downloads without either a password or a user login. This is a bummer and is currently a bit clunky. We produce content for a wide range of people and we would like to make that content available for download to everyone, but the best you can do right now is put a password on everything and then try and make that password available to the public, which is just clunky and a bit odd. We really hope they implement a password and login free option soon.
Secondly, when you search for images there is no way to sort what we have searched for in the results page. Want to search for something and then sort by "date taken" or "date uploaded"? Not possible. The other slightly frustrating thing is there is no way to change the size of the image thumbnails in the galleries or search results. They are a bit small and it can sometimes be hard to see what the photo looks like until you click on it to make it larger.
Really there are so many things to like about Libris that I wouldn't say the above should be deal breakers, but they are things I think could really help improve it.
PhotoShelter for Brands FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for PhotoShelter for Brands.Q. What type of pricing plans does PhotoShelter for Brands offer?
PhotoShelter for Brands offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$10,000.00/year
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Not Available
Basic: $3999.00/year Professional: $6999.00/year Enterprise: Custom Contact PhotoShelter for pricing details.
Q. Who are the typical users of PhotoShelter for Brands?
PhotoShelter for Brands has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does PhotoShelter for Brands support?
PhotoShelter for Brands supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does PhotoShelter for Brands support mobile devices?
PhotoShelter for Brands supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does PhotoShelter for Brands integrate with?
PhotoShelter for Brands integrates with the following applications:
Adobe Creative Cloud, Asana, Canva, Contentful, Dropbox Business, Drupal, Google Drive, Greenfly, Hootsuite, Marq, Microsoft Teams, Opendorse, Photo Mechanic, Slack, Slate, WordPress, Wrike
Q. What level of support does PhotoShelter for Brands offer?
PhotoShelter for Brands offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat
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