Are you looking for an all-in-one solution to run digital photographic competitions for your camera club or association? If so, look no further - PhotoComp Manager is designed to make organising projected digital image competitions a breeze from start to finish.

Step 1 - Receive entries

PhotoComp Manager supports a wide variety of methods for entrants to submit photographs for judging. You can receive image files via email, CD, floppy disk, memory stick or CF. The software package also includes our PhotoCompEntry program which club members can download and install on their home computers. PhotoCompEntry can then be used to select which images they would like to submit, give them titles and package them into a single file, which is then e-mailed or sent by disc to the competition organiser. The program also builds a useful archive of the member's past competition entries and scores.

Step 2 - Organise

When you receive an entry via e-mail or disc, simply double-click on it and the software will add it to the competition database. If you choose, you can then send an automatic acknowledgement to the entrant by e-mail. Alternatively, you can enter the entrant's details and import images manually.

PhotoCompViewer, the program at the heart of the package, then organises the entries into classes and puts them in a random order ready for judging. If required, the competition data can then be transferred in a single folder to another computer for judging, using a CD, memory stick or other suitable medium.

Step 3 - Display

During the competition, the display of photographs is under your full control. As the 'digital projectionist', you can go forwards and back - or just relax and let the program cycle through the images at a chosen frequency. The software is automatically set to run through each class of the competition one image at a time to give an overview before judging begins. PhotoCompViewer can even run portfolio competitions, showing the set of images entered by each competitor on the screen at the same time.

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Step 4 - Judge

After the initial display of entries, PhotoCompViewer then lets you click through to score and comment on individual entries. You can record score for each image with a single key press or hold it back for scoring later. Once all the images have been viewed, and you have scored any images that have been held back, you are ready to reveal the results. The top scoring images can be displayed instantly and you can even print certificates on the spot!

Step 5 - Record results

When the competition is over, you can use the software to create an HTML file of the results to upload to your club's web site. You can also send the results automatically to the entrants via e-mail - when an entrant receives the e-mail they click on the attachment and their PhotoCompEntry archive is automatically updated with their scores. You can also maintain a league table for your members using PhotoCompLeague.

Full features

You can view a full list of features here.

Click on the button above to download a full evaluation copy of PhotoComp Manager. This is a fully working version, however all images will be watermarked with "Evaluation Only".

To remove this restriction, you will need a licence, which costs £75. This allows you to run the program on one computer to manage the entries and, if you wish, another computer to run the competition.

Click above to pay using a credit or debit card - payments are processed via Paypal. You will receive a receipt and your licence number by email.

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If you would prefer to pay by cheque, or require a copy on CD then email us.
(there is a charge of £2.00 to cover CD postage etc.)

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System
Requirements

- Windows 2000, ME, XP or Vista

- Internet Explorer version 5.0 or later

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^*(There is a charge of £2.00 to cover postage etc. for CDs.)