Canon Studio Solution 브로셔

From reception to invoicing, Canon’s Studio Solution gives you unprecedented integration and comprehensive

studio management in a completely scalable software package. Whether you are a one-person studio running

the software on a single laptop computer or a larger enterprise with multiple employees and networked

workstations, the workflow is streamlined, easy-to-use and professional, reducing business-related costs

while maximizing sales and profit potential. The intuitive interface simplifies staff training requirements,

and the cohesive modules lead you naturally and effortlessly from one step to the next, enabling you to

manage a highly efficient, automated, profitable studio.

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Customer Information

Customer information is easily entered and automatically
linked to appointments, staff assignments, images,
sales history and billing.

Contact and Employee Information

Existing contact and employee information can be
quickly imported from the databases you already have.

Customer Databases

Business-building customer data, such as birthday
tracking and links to family members, can be entered
and used to generate reminders in a timely manner.

Assignments

Staff and studio (shooting room) assignments can be
easily made via the intuitive calendar interface.

Automatic Reminder

Entries for reminder calls are automatically generated,
enabling you or your staff to contact clients in advance
of a scheduled shoot. This minimizes studio downtime.

Relational Database

A powerful relational database engine maintains
client information and tightly links all job elements
throughout the workflow.

SQL Database

Use of a standardized SQL (Structured Query Language)
database enables powerful reporting capabilities for
business analysis.

Business Reports

Business reports can be exported to external 
applications, such as spreadsheets and for use in
many accounting programs.

Permissions and Rights

Permissions and rights based access to the program facili-
tates employee management, prevents operational errors
and assures business security. The system administrator
can define and assign employee roles, and limit access
to specific studio operations based on those roles.

Scalability

The Server-based system design makes the software
completely scalable to fit the size of any studio opera-
tions, small to large. Additional workstations can be
added at any time via standard Windows networking. 

Wired and Wireless Shooting

Canon EOS Digital SLR cameras can be connected to
Studio Solution via USB cable or WiFi wireless* using 
a simple camera setup interface.

Live View Shooting

USB-tethered EOS cameras enable Live View 
composition at the computer screen with remote AF
and shutter release control.

Import Image

With USB- or WiFi-connected cameras, images are
automatically imported into Studio Solution.

Hot Folder

Image files can also be imported via a “hot folder”
setup or manually, such as via a memory card and
card reader.

Photo Library

Imported images are automatically cataloged, 
organized by job and linked to the customer and 
session within the database.

Automatic Renaming

Cataloged images can be renamed (with automatic file
renaming) for easier identification and to facilitate 
subsequent searches.

Keywords

Photographer information, including keywords, can 

be entered for later use in database searches and
batch processing operations.

Full Integration with Database

Full integration of the SQL Database throughout the
entire Studio Solution workflow ensures that your
customer’s original images, finished orders and
invoice information are never separated from your
customers’ databases.

RAW and JPEG Workflows

Both Canon RAW and JPEG workflows are supported.

JPEG Shooting

For JPEG shooting, advanced Canon EOS Digital SLR
camera technologies, such as in-camera DIGIC Image
Processors, ensure breathtaking image capture. 

RAW Processing Workflow

Use of Canon Digital Photo Professional image processing
engine assures the highest image integrity — resolution,
color and dynamic range — in RAW workflows.

Chroma-Keying

Shoot on green or blue
screen to drop subject
into different back-
grounds using Studio
Solution’s built-in,
easy-to-use green
screen (chroma-keying)
capabilities.

Sales Presentation Tools

Take advantage of powerful built-in sales presentation
tools to maximize sales of products and services.

Custom Product Packages

Custom product packages and
pricing; this information is
added to the database and
used during the shopping cart
ordering and invoicing process.

Slide Shows

Quickly and easily create high-resolution slide shows
for client presentation. Slide shows can be viewed on
a dedicated monitor or via a projector.

REALiS Projector

Using a REALiS Projector, images can be projected and
presented “life-size” showing the customer how they
would look in their home.

Background Music

Enhance the mood with background music. You can
select your own slideshow background music from a
folder on your computer.

Proofing

Built-in proofing feature makes it possible to create
on-the-spot client proofs and “contact sheets” in a
variety of customizable formats.

Sales Presentation

Sales presentation mode uses a clean, uncluttered

interface that shows images in the best possible light.

Simulated Effects

Simulate print paper types to show your clients the
effects of print options, such as borders and paper
textures.

Dog Ear Feature

Images can be easily compared — the “dog ear” feature
creates a reference image for side-by-side comparison
to facilitate photo selection.

5-Star Rating System

Images can be tagged using a 5-star rating system for
subsequent sorting and purchase decision-making.

Logo Incorporation

Enhance your studio branding by incorporating your
logo on presentation screens.

Integrated Shopping Cart

Use the integrated shopping cart to build your customer’s
order as you are presenting photographs and package
options. The integrated shopping cart is automatically
updated with custom product and service packages
previously added to the database. You can elect to
show or not show pricing in the shopping cart.

Receipts

A receipt can be automatically generated when the sales
presentation and ordering are finished.

Routing Orders

Orders are immediately routed for fulfillment.

Photo Workshop

The Photo Workshop module provides easy-to-use,
immediately accessible, image adjustment controls,
such as exposure, contrast and white balance.

More Options

Frequently used corrections and enhancements —
red-eye reduction, sharpening, black-and-white/sepia
tone/duotones and vignettes — can also be performed
within Photo Workshop.

Retouching Capabilities

Retouch Workshop is one click away. It provides
additional easy-to-use tools for advanced photo
editing, including:

• Exposure

• Contrast

• White balance

• Tonal Corrections

• Sharpness

• Blemish removal

• Red-eye removal

• Selection options

• Dodge and burn

• Clone tool

• Custom brushes

• Soft focus effect

Batch Editing

Batch editing is also possible: perform quick global
adjustments to multiple images from a shoot. You can
also save and automatically apply your adjustments to
other catalogs.

Roundtrip Editing

“Roundtrip” editing with Adobe Photoshop enables more
complex image manipulation without having to exit
Canon’s Studio Solution workflow environment. 

Non-Destructive Image Editing Workflow

The non-destructive image editing workflow ensures
that your original high-bit-depth, high-quality capture
data remains intact and available for future re-editing.

Easy-to-Use Interface

Consistent, simple interface from module to module
(Photo Library, Photo Workshop, Retouch Workshop) maxi-
mizes ease of use and provides a non-disruptive workflow.

Enhance to Upsell

Numerous built-in photographic enhancement tools
enable fast creation of high-quality, value-added
products for “upsell” opportunities.

Package Offerings

Large pre-installed library of borders and templates
can be easily modified or expanded to create new
product and package offerings.

Borders

Borders can be easily modified, for example, by changing
size, color and/or transparency, and by adding text.
Newly created borders can be added to library for easy
future reuse.

Built-in Library

Choose from a built-in library of green screen back-
grounds or import your own photographs and templates.

Combine Backgrounds and Templates

Combine backgrounds and templates (with added text, if
desired) to create highly customized offerings for your clients.

Templates

Templates for high-demand
specialty products — such
as sports trading cards and
holiday cards — are supplied
and pre-installed in the
library for immediate use.

Custom Templates

Templates are easily customizable — using composite
images, text and even barcodes — and can be saved in
the border library for reuse.

Fine-Tuning

Easily “drop-out” green or blue screen images onto
different backgrounds using simple hue and threshold
adjustments that enable fine-tuning of the chroma-key
effect, facilitating clean, natural-looking edge transitions.

Picture Style

Full access to Canon EOS Picture Styles
provides customizable, convenient image
processing, delivering superb photo-

graphs with less time and effort on RAW workflows.

Efficient Printing

In-house print orders are automatically handled by
Studio Solution using the most efficient, cost-effective
method, based on the printers you have set up for use
on the network.

Printer Management

In-house Canon imagePROGRAF and PIXMA Pro printers
are automatically assigned jobs by Studio Solution on
the basis of optimized load sharing, required media
size and type and other customizable factors.

Image Nesting

Studio Solution print jobs sent to Canon imagePROGRAF
printers can take advantage of image nesting, which
creates composites of different-sized prints across
roll media to make the most efficient, waste-free use
of available media. Image nesting typically requires
the addition of sophisticated printer RIP systems.
Canon imagePROGRAF printers using Studio Solution
incorporate this nesting capability to save money,
time and maximize profits.

Queue Management

When using multiple printers, load sharing algorithms
are used to make sure all available printers are used in
the most efficient manner, avoiding long print job
queues whenever possible.

Image-Medium Synchronicity

Automatic routing of print jobs takes into account print

size and media surface so that, for example, a job that
requires glossy paper is not sent to a printer that has
only matte paper loaded.

Color Profiles

The underlying Canon image processing engine uses
ICC profile-based color management to maintain the
most accurate rendition and widest color gamut. By
updating profiles only when needed (e.g., whenever
a new media type is added), you can ensure the
best possible color reproduction, especially when
the output is to Canon professional printers.

Non-Canon Printers

Studio Solution supports output to non-Canon printers,
provided they are installed via standard Windows drivers.

Printer Alerts

The software will alert you whenever a printer requires
attention — such as for paper change or ink replenishment.
Constant monitoring of printers by an operator is,
therefore, not required. Your staff essentially needs
only attend to ink and paper replenishment.

Digital Delivery Options

Customers can order digital delivery options, such as
a customized slide show on disc or auto-resized image
files for later use on Web sites.

Outside Providers

Built-in support for and routing to outside output
service providers, including Labtricity and

Photoreflect, enable you to produce and sell products you
cannot fulfill in-house.

Invoices

Invoices (which can include shipping costs and tax) can be
automatically generated once an order is placed.

Archiving

Upon job completion, all image and work files (catalogs)
can be easily archived to offline media to free up space on
your primary workspace drives. Archived catalogs are fully
searchable and can be easily recalled for repeat business.

Business Reports

Studio Solution can generate comprehensive business
reports that help you analyze your operation, maximize
efficiency and stay in front of the competition.

Report Types:

• Employee Activity

• Employee Activity Export

• Employee Export

• Employee Schedule

• Employee Schedule Export

• Event Categories

• Event Categories Export

• Orders Summary Export

• Package Export

• Package and Products

• Products Export

• Sales by Package

• Session Trends

• Tasks by Type Export

Export .csv (Comma Separated Value) File

The internal SQL database engine produces reports that
can be exported as .csv files to other programs, such as
spreadsheet and financial applications.

After you’ve finished refining your images and adding

all requested features, just tell Studio Solution to

print the order, and the rest is done for you. If you have more

than one Canon professional printer connected to your network,

Studio Solution will assign output in the most logical and efficient

way, sharing print jobs among several printers to save time,

and automatically routing specialized orders to the appropriate

device. Using Canon imagePROGRAF printers, Studio Solution

even adds print nesting capability to effectively minimize the

waste of paper, and maximize your profits.

The digital delivery (image files on a CD/DVD) portion of the order

is placed and the images going to an outside lab are prepared.

Canon’s Studio Solution

gives you full control over

your daily operations while 

dramatically simplifying

your work and making sure

you run a more efficient

business. Your studio projects, from start to finish, are managed

more easily, using an intuitive workflow that takes you from one

step to the next. Studio Solution empowers you to deliver the

highest quality product to your customers in the most timely

manner. It maximizes sales potential and helps you build the

trust on which you depend for future business. It is, decidedly,

a winning proposition.

With Studio Solution running on your computers, you’ve

already entered all of the basic data crucial to running

your business — you’ve entered studio information and

company logo, you’ve imported your client contact lists,

entered staff members and their roles, along with all of

the products and services you offer. 

Now, merely by entering your new customer’s contact

information — along with any special requests or 

notes to your staff — you’ve started the process. 

Studio Solution both follows your customer and 

leads your staff from beginning to end, taking you 

step by step through a smooth workflow that will

get the job done with supreme efficiency.

A Simple, Efficient and Profitable Workflow

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Within moments after the last shot is taken, Studio Solution’s

powerful sales presentation tools allow you to convert your

images into a profitable order of products and services.

After a quick edit, you’re ready to sit your clients down in front

of a monitor — or better yet, a Canon REALiS projector — for a

slide show of their images. The show, easily created in Studio

Solution, presents your images in the best possible light — in

high resolution and with brilliant, accurate color. You can even

add background music to enhance the viewing experience.

You can use Studio Solution’s presentation features, such as

side-by-side image comparison, and a 5-star rating system

to help your customer narrow down their choices and make

their final decisions.

You can then enter an interactive presentation, during which you

show your customer how:

• Images can be enhanced by adding features, such as borders and templates.

• Prints on different media, like canvas or a matte surface, might look.

• Prints of different sizes might look in a room setting over a sofa or fireplace.

• Combinations of templates and backgrounds might be used to create value-

added items, like sports trading cards or calendars, and multipurpose the

captured images.

Throughout the presentation, as your customer makes purchase

decisions, you add products, services and various packages — all

previously entered into the database — into an integrated shopping

. Your customer decides on a package comprising different print

sizes, several extra prints with special border treatments, a family

calendar, a quantity of holiday greetings cards using custom back-

grounds and text, and a CD of image files suitable for use on a Web site.

When you’ve finished with the sale, you can immediately, and auto-

matically, print a detailed receipt for your customer to confirm the

order. This receipt includes all packages and additional products

and services ordered, plus taxes and

shipping costs as appropriate.

RECEPTION

SHOOTING

SALES

RETOUCH

DELIVERY

Picture Style

Saturation

Sharpness

Standard

High

Slightly high

Portrait

Slightly high

Slightly low

Landscape

HIgh green - blue

High

Neutral

Low

None

Faithful

Low

None

Monochrome

None (monochrome)

Slightly high

Now you’re ready to use Studio Solution to take the

steps necessary to fulfill your customer’s order.

Most image adjustments and retouching, if required, are

easily accomplished within Studio Solution using the

Photo Workshop and Retouch Workshop tools. You, or a

member of your staff, can perform the most frequently

needed corrections and enhancements — including

background dropout on green screen shots — simply and without

ever leaving the Studio Solution environment. If more complex

work is needed, Studio Solution makes it easy to perform more

advanced adjustments via a quick roundtrip visit to and from

(must be installed on your computer) without

ever removing the image from your customer’s database.

You can also choose to capture JPEG images to take advantage of the

EOS Digital SLR’s superb internal image processing and make the best

use of memory card storage capacity. Studio Solution provides full

support for a JPEG-based workflow, using the same non-destructive

processing to assure the best possible image quality. 

Capturing images against a green screen backdrop is easy, letting

you use later the powerful chroma-keying capabilities built into

Studio Solution.

Over the weekend, the assignment was a wedding, and while you

could have easily shot wirelessly into your laptop using Studio

Solution, you chose to travel light and shoot everything to memory

cards. Studio Solution can handle this workflow as effortlessly as

if you were shooting in the comfort of your own studio.  

Images captured on-location are easily imported into the Studio

Solution library using a memory card reader. Once transferred, they

are automatically cataloged and added to your customer’s database,

where they await any further processing within Studio Solution,

just as with the directly transferred studio images.

Each morning, your photographer logs into Studio Solution and sees

the day’s jobs and every assignment on their own calendar. It tells

them not only the time of each shoot but also the designated studio,

the nature of the job, and any special customer requests or require-

ments. This enables the photographer to choose the best equipment

for the job and ready any needed setups, such as a props or green

screen backdrops, well in advance of the customer session.

At the beginning of the session, the photographer simply tethers the

Canon EOS Digital SLR to the studio computer using a USB connection. 

This not only enables Live View shooting via the computer monitor,

but also immediately transfers every shot directly into the Studio

Solution Photo library. There, the images are automatically cataloged

and added to your customer’s database, ready for processing.

If you need more freedom, Studio Solution also makes it easy to

capture images wirelessly into the computer over WiFi using one of the

Canon WFT Wireless File Transmitter. Images are quickly transferred

into the Studio Solution database, and are then immediately available.

Studio Solution fully supports the capturing and editing of

Canon RAW files, making it possible to take advantage of

the higher bit depth, advanced Canon image processing

algorithms and the non-destructive editing capabilities

built into Studio Solution.

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