SCC MediaServer Dreamstime Interface adds the ability for users with appropriate credentials, to search, browse, preview and download/deliver image content directly from Dreamstime, the world's largest community in stock photography and a reliable supplier of high quality digital images at affordable prices.
Since 2000 Dreamstime has evolved into a powerful and active community-based site. The stock image database you can browse today has been uploaded by photographers from all over the world, shot on film or digital. To ensure you receive the best content, all images are reviewed and approved by experienced editors. The Dreamstime database is renewed with thousands of fresh images and titles on a daily basis.
According to Bogdan Jianu, Affiliate Program Manager for Dreamstime:
We're happy to team up with SCC and offer their customers easy access to more than 250 million professional stock photos, including videos and audio files.
Our solution was developed having in mind all things related to the most valuable resource: 'time'. Clients will see enhanced productivity thanks to smooth integration and accessible documentation, in one word: 'fast', reach everything they need to meet deadlines and make their projects look amazing.
Search results are returned in the same dynamic grid and multicolumn displays used for SCC stored assets, with metadata values displayed as tooltips whenever a user positions their mouse over an asset. Clicking an asset preview in the results page launches a details page, including next and previous image button navigation, complete with mid-sized preview and image metadata text associated with the currently displayed asset. The image preview provides a pan and zoom capability enabling detailed high-res previews to be examined at a larger scale.
Dreamstime assets can be easily selected by clicking the checkbox beneath each thumbnail, or by clicking the image cell and tapping the space bar. Selected assets can also be launched into an image compare facility allowing closeup comparison, or launched into a slideshow facility for a full-screen automated display of each asset. The slideshow facility makes use of the largest available preview for higher resolution display and also offers pan and zoom capability for examination at larger scale. Selected assets can also be printed using either the built-in contact sheet, 2x2 or large format layouts in either grid or multicolumn modes.
Selected assets can be easily downloaded either to a local directory, or to one or more pre-configured server-side directories, for use within downstream CMS systems and production workflows.
SCC Dreamstime Interface Features
- Access to over 250 million professional stock photos.
- Connects the SCC Web Client application to Dreamstime using a secure subscription credential.
- Provides high performance search and display of Dreamstime images with saved search capability.
- Incorporates sophisticated browsing of results, navigable details pages, compare, slideshow and print facilities.
- Detail page previews, and compare and slideshow previews offer pan and zoom capability.
- Simple to use interface is configurable for either client-side download or server-side delivery of high-resolution assets.