LumaPix Yearbook software

[gnubler]

http://www.lumapix.com/yearbook/ybk_overview.shtml

Boss wants me to find out about doing yearbooks. Customer (school) gets use of the software, they send us files to print. Apparently this software can output layered PSDs, flattened TIFFs, or PDFs to be uploaded to us from the customer. Free trial on the software - actual price is unknown and licensed per school.

Anyone experienced with this or something similar before I attempt to download and run the trial?

[Joe]

http://www.lumapix.com/yearbook/ybk_overview.shtml

Boss wants me to find out about doing yearbooks. Customer (school) gets use of the software, they send us files to print. Apparently this software can output layered PSDs, flattened TIFFs, or PDFs to be uploaded to us from the customer. Free trial on the software - actual price is unknown and licensed per school.

Anyone experienced with this or something similar before I attempt to download and run the trial?

I'll bet a dollar the files you get suck. :wink:

[gnubler]

Yup. I was trying to keep the sarcasm out of my original post.

[Joe]

Yup. I was trying to keep the sarcasm out of my original post.

I'm shocked you didn't recommend PAP to them.

But back on topic...No, I have no experience with that software.

[youston]

http://www.lumapix.com/yearbook/ybk_overview.shtml

Boss wants me to find out about doing yearbooks. Customer (school) gets use of the software, they send us files to print. Apparently this software can output layered PSDs, flattened TIFFs, or PDFs to be uploaded to us from the customer. Free trial on the software - actual price is unknown and licensed per school.

Anyone experienced with this or something similar before I attempt to download and run the trial?

I'll bet a dollar the files you get suck. :wink:

Negative Joe is negative.

[Joe]

http://www.lumapix.com/yearbook/ybk_overview.shtml

Boss wants me to find out about doing yearbooks. Customer (school) gets use of the software, they send us files to print. Apparently this software can output layered PSDs, flattened TIFFs, or PDFs to be uploaded to us from the customer. Free trial on the software - actual price is unknown and licensed per school.

Anyone experienced with this or something similar before I attempt to download and run the trial?

I'll bet a dollar the files you get suck. :wink:

Negative Joe is negative.

So you are wanting to bet the files are pristine and trouble free? How much are we talking here? I need a lot of DVR equipment ya know...

[youston]

http://www.lumapix.com/yearbook/ybk_overview.shtml

Boss wants me to find out about doing yearbooks. Customer (school) gets use of the software, they send us files to print. Apparently this software can output layered PSDs, flattened TIFFs, or PDFs to be uploaded to us from the customer. Free trial on the software - actual price is unknown and licensed per school.

Anyone experienced with this or something similar before I attempt to download and run the trial?

I'll bet a dollar the files you get suck. :wink:

Negative Joe is negative.

So you are wanting to bet the files are pristine and trouble free? How much are we talking here? I need a lot of DVR equipment ya know...

No, I'd pretty much expect them to be crap, as well. But I'd hope they'd be okay. 

[Joe]

http://www.lumapix.com/yearbook/ybk_overview.shtml

Boss wants me to find out about doing yearbooks. Customer (school) gets use of the software, they send us files to print. Apparently this software can output layered PSDs, flattened TIFFs, or PDFs to be uploaded to us from the customer. Free trial on the software - actual price is unknown and licensed per school.

Anyone experienced with this or something similar before I attempt to download and run the trial?

I'll bet a dollar the files you get suck. :wink:

Negative Joe is negative.

So you are wanting to bet the files are pristine and trouble free? How much are we talking here? I need a lot of DVR equipment ya know...

No, I'd pretty much expect them to be crap, as well. But I'd hope they'd be okay. 

I do hope they are OK too. For gnubler.

[youston]

http://www.lumapix.com/yearbook/ybk_overview.shtml

Boss wants me to find out about doing yearbooks. Customer (school) gets use of the software, they send us files to print. Apparently this software can output layered PSDs, flattened TIFFs, or PDFs to be uploaded to us from the customer. Free trial on the software - actual price is unknown and licensed per school.

Anyone experienced with this or something similar before I attempt to download and run the trial?

I'll bet a dollar the files you get suck. :wink:

Negative Joe is negative.

So you are wanting to bet the files are pristine and trouble free? How much are we talking here? I need a lot of DVR equipment ya know...

No, I'd pretty much expect them to be crap, as well. But I'd hope they'd be okay. 

I do hope they are OK too. For gnubler.

But the difference is that I would have lied to gnubler and said it would be awesome so that he experiences that crushing sense of defeat when they're low-res rgb crap. That's what DCS has taught me.  :evil:

Edit: gender confusion. fixed now.

[Joe]

http://www.lumapix.com/yearbook/ybk_overview.shtml

Boss wants me to find out about doing yearbooks. Customer (school) gets use of the software, they send us files to print. Apparently this software can output layered PSDs, flattened TIFFs, or PDFs to be uploaded to us from the customer. Free trial on the software - actual price is unknown and licensed per school.

Anyone experienced with this or something similar before I attempt to download and run the trial?

I'll bet a dollar the files you get suck. :wink:

Negative Joe is negative.

So you are wanting to bet the files are pristine and trouble free? How much are we talking here? I need a lot of DVR equipment ya know...

No, I'd pretty much expect them to be crap, as well. But I'd hope they'd be okay. 

I do hope they are OK too. For gnubler.

But the difference is that I would have lied to gnubler and said it would be awesome so that he experiences that crushing sense of defeat when they're low-res rgb crap. That's what DCS has taught me.  :evil:

Edit: gender confusion. fixed now.

You see, you can teach an old dog new tricks. Thanks.

[Syphon]

You know that no matter what the photos that the students send in will be crap. We at one time did a yearbook of new students for a local college and it seems that the students always sent in the worst photo of themselves. Sometimes they sent a print off their cheap crappy printer at home.

[gnubler]

This is exactly what I expected to hear - now I can breathe. I was asked by the Boss to find out about it and now I'm done. I wish they'd just list the cost of the software & its licenses right on the website so I wouldn't have to go through all of this "research". I was asked how a photographer could take 800 pictures of students, give us the images, and we match the correct name from a database file to the picture. I said "uhhhh..." and agreed to look into it.

[youston]

This is exactly what I expected to hear - now I can breathe. I was asked by the Boss to find out about it and now I'm done. I wish they'd just list the cost of the software & its licenses right on the website so I wouldn't have to go through all of this "research". I was asked how a photographer could take 800 pictures of students, give us the images, and we match the correct name from a database file to the picture. I said "uhhhh..." and agreed to look into it.

That's actually pretty easy to pull off, but you need to have some vdp software like darwin or xmpie (and there are tons of others). InDesign might even do it, but I'm not really all that familiar with its variable capabilities.

The only problem is if the photographer typed the data into the db wrong ... I've had that happen more than a few times, where db entries don't match up with file names.

[Joe]

What kind of database is it? Are the images actually stored in the database?

[gnubler]

What kind of database is it? Are the images actually stored in the database?

No idea. It's all speculative. I was presented with the scenario that a photographer would go to a school and take pictures of all the students and then...I don't know what. How would a batch of images from a digital cam be matched with a database list of the student names? This is what I was asked and I didn't have an answer. Not sure who would be responsible for what.