There are several things to consider when establishing a digital photo documentation workflow. To begin, you should be able the answer some basic questions, including:
These are just a few of the things you need to consider when creating a standardized digital photo documentation workflow.
If your organization has multiple users of the PhotoStation Manager solution, depending on your needs, all users can share a single, networked collection of photo documentation records, or one or more of the users can setup their own private collection of photo documentation records.
One of the setup features of the PhotoStation Manager is the Storage Tab. On this panel, you can choose where your photo documentation collection will be stored. You can choose a local drive (i.e. on your personal computer), a networked file server drive, or even a virtual drive located up in the cloud.
A networked file server drive or cloud drive selection makes it easy for a single photo documentation record collection to be accessed and shared by multiple users.
We have heard from many Healthcare organizations that they've been told that in order to capture high quality photo documentation, they need to invest in an expensive, proprietary camera rig and that they need to setup a dedicated photography room.
This is not the case.
The technological sophistication of most digital cameras today is enough to make sure you can capture quality photos from most off-the-shelf digital cameras. While there are some issues you need to be sensitive to, like sensor size and white balance, generally speaking, you can skip the expensive camera rigs. Check out our Digital Camera Primer for more information about choosing a digital camera.
What is not so easy even with today's off-the-shelf digital cameras is managing the photo image files once you have collected a few hundred. That's where our PhotoStation Manager solution makes it easy to use an off-the-shelf digital camera to automate your digital photo documentation workflow.
Now, if you would like to have a flexible photo documentation system that makes shooting the best possible, most consistent, and highest quality digital photo documentation simple and easy, you should check out our PhotoStation System. With the all-inclusive 4D PhotoStation System, you won't need a dedicated photography room. You can move the PhotoStation System from room to room with settings tailored to make sure you get the best possible images. Our mobile cart design is optimized for multi-room environments in which you bring the photo documentation system to your Subjects, and not the other way around.
While taking consistent high quality photo documentation images requires more than pointing your camera and pressing the shutter release button, you don't need to be an expert in photography to get the job done.
Many digital cameras include options that make it easy to take pictures in a variety of situations. While most cameras have a sports mode, or fireworks mode, unfortunately no camera we've seen has a 'consistent high quality documentation photo image' mode.
By understanding the four key ideas of shutter speed, aperture, white balance, and ISO level, you can take high quality photo images at your facility without becoming a photo expert. Please refer to our Digital Photography Primer for more information about capturing photo documentation images.
All three PhotoStation Manager Editions can work on the following versions of Microsoft Windows®:
Microsoft Windows® XP
Microsoft Windows Vista®
Microsoft Windows 7®
The PhotoStation Manager does import photo images from any camera available on the market today.
The PhotoStation Manager will import any JPEG compressed photo image, and as well can import photo images in TIFF and BMP formats.
In the future, additional non-standard photo formats will be supported by the PhotoStation Manager.
The PhotoStation Manager is available in an unlimited, single CPU license and in a monthly service license.
With the unlimited single CPU license, you pay a single fee for a license to one of the three PhotoStation Manager software Editions, and you have the unlimited use of that software. Included in the purchase price of the software is a one year technical support and update service which provides you with the assurance that if you have technical issues with tuning your photography workflow while using our software, you can get the help you need. After the first year, you can extend your technical support and update service by paying an additional annual service fee.
With the monthly service option, you are provided with use of one of the three PhotoStation Manager software Editions on a single CPU, but you can cancel the service with 30 days notice. As long as you continue with your service license plan, you will be provided with technical support and software update services.
All Editions of the PhotoStation Manager solution are compatible with the Eye-Fi wireless solution. The Eye-Fi solution enables any digital camera to wirelessly upload photos to your computer running the PhotoStation Manager software.
It is easy to configure the Eye-Fi wireless upload card to work with the PhotoStation Manager. In the Eye-Fi Center, you can configure the name and upload destination of your Eye-Fi card. If you have a single camera for shooting photo images, configure an Eye-Fi upload destination location in a folder on your desktop or in your MyPhotos folder. Just load photo images from the folder location you set up in the Eye-Fi Center to import into the PhotoStation Manager.
For more information about Eye-Fi products, go to www.eye.fi.
The PhotoStation Manager Loader Version automates the process of sorting and organizing photo images according to your subject's Record ID.
Choose the PhotoStation Manager Loader Version if you want to:
The PhotoStation Manager Essentials Version automates the process of sorting and organizing photo images according to your patient ID and creating report outputs including before and afters.
Choose the PhotoStation Manager Essentials Version if you want to:
The PhotoStation Manager Enhancer Version automates the process of sorting and organizing photo images according to your Record ID, creating report outputs including before and afters, and taking digital measurements of features in the photo image.
Choose the PhotoStation Manager Enhancer Version if you want to:
The 4D PhotoStation System ...
Choose the the 4D PhotoStation System if you want to:
Photo image documentation is widely used across commercial industries to document objects of interest. With 4D Imaging Systems' PhotoStation Manager Commercial Edition™, you can now document changes over time, easily highlighting features of interest, and measuring sizes of critical features or defects. Our standards-based solution makes it easy to deploy our photo documentation solutions in the field, saving you time and money.
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Typical applications include:
90 Second Overview
Installing The PhotoStation Manager
Using Rulers
Measuring
Wound Healing Progress Report
Organizing and Searching
Creating Reports
How To Change A Record ID
If you have technical questions about your PhotoStation Manager software or your PhotoStation System, please email support @ 4d-imaging.com or call us at 877-622-3966 x2002.
PhotoStation Manager Quick Reference
If you have any questions or would like for us to walk through the software via an online training session, please call or email. We will be happy to help you setup and configure the PhotoStation Manager or your PhotoStation System to meet your photo documentation workflow requirements at no obligation to you.