4D Photo Imaging™ is what we call a digital photo documentation workflow that is backed by and enhanced through the use of 4D Imaging Systems' PhotoStation Manager™ solution.

Using the PhotoStation Manager as the main platform for your 4D Photo Imaging means that you will have a simple way to turn your pictures into a indexed, time-based collection of visual records that can help you better document and report on how something is changing over time.

If you are in Healthcare, use 4D Photo Imaging to visually document your patients or track the results of clinical trials. Be able to see and measure changes in features, and identify which features have recently appeared.

If you are in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC), use 4D Photo Imaging to visually document your various projects and their state of completion. Be able to see and measure features, even after they have been covered up. Complement your CAD and Building Information Models (BIM) with photo documentation of construction progress.

If you are in Law Enforcement, use 4D Photo Imaging to visually document crime scenes or accident scenes. Be able to accurately capture and document a situation and then be able to forensically explore positions, sizes, and appearance of key pieces of evidence.

If you are in any profession that relies on photography as a tool in your business or practice, 4D Photo Imaging can speed your photo documentation workflow and help you make better decisions about what is happening or what happened.

4D Photo Imaging with the PhotoStation Manager:

• Works with any digital camera
• Makes it easy to locate, access, and update images of any of your subjects
• Creates reports with text and graphics on any photo you need to edit (without changing the source image)
• Enables you to take 2D measurements of any feature of interest

4D Photo Imaging lets you capture, organize, markup, report, and communicate your photo documentation quickly and easily.

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:

• What is my Subject that I will photo document (i.e. a person, an object, a location, etc.)? What are the list of standardized views that are needed to fully document your Subject and in what sequence can you most quickly / efficiently capture those views with a camera?
• How many cameras will be used?
• Will a single camera be used by one person or multiple people?
• Will you capture photo images for a single Subject and then process / load those photo images before moving on to the next Subject? Or will photo images of multiple Subjects be captured before performing the processing and loading?
• Will the photo image processing be done at a single, centralized workstation? Or will each person taking photo images have access to their own computer while taking the photo documentation  images.
• What information is critical to be associated with the photo images? Do these include any measurements?
• What sorts of procedures will be documented using photo images and have you standardized the steps / views you desire to be captured using photo images?

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.

Whether you are using the PhotoStation Manager software or the PhotoStation System, you do not need a dedicated photography room if you are a Healthcare practitioner.

The PhotoStation Manager makes it easy to use off-the-shelf digital cameras to shoot photo documentation in any of rooms for upload later into the PhotoStation Manager system.

With the all-inclusive 4D PhotoStation System, you can move the camera system from room to room and take consistent high quality photo images. The PhotoStation System allows for the setup of camera settings files for each room in which pictures will be taken. Before capturing new photo images, select and load the predefined settings to take great pictures.

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 Essentials automates the process of sorting and organizing photo images according to your patient ID.

Choose the PhotoStation Manager Loader Edition if you want to:

• use a single camera to shoot photo images of multiple patient before loading into the computer.
• use multiple cameras and want to have a standardized process and workflow for organizing your photo images.
• be able to search for all photo images for a single patient using the patient ID.
• see all photo images taken of a single patient sorted by data of patient encounter.
• elminate printing hardcopy outputs of photo image for insertion in the patient record.
• are worried about how to handle getting your photo images into your current or planned for EMR system.

The PhotoStation Manager Loader Edition is our entry level product offering. You can purchase the a single CPU license for for $1,295. This allows you to Capture and Organize photo images from one or more digital cameras one a single computer system.

The PhotoStation Manager Essentials 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 Edition if you want to:

• use all the features of the PhotoStation Manager Loader Edition.
• keep track of information related to your patient encounter and have that information be part of an report output.
• keep track of information related to each photo image and have that information be part of an report output.
• create before and after output reports with 2 or 3 views shown on a single page
• create a zoom detail showiing a particular feature for patient home monitoring
• create a gallery of all photo images to document a procedure pre-op, during-op, and post-op
• create reports with your clinic details and key clinical information without having to hand write notes on a photo printout.

The PhotoStation Manager Essentials Edition is our step up product offering. You can purchase the a single CPU license for for $2,495. This allows you to Capture and Organize photo images from one or more digital cameras, and create customizable photo image report outputs on a single computer system.

The PhotoStation Manager Enhancer Edition automates the process of sorting and organizing photo images according to your patient ID, creating report outputs including before and afters, and taking digital measurements of features in the photo image.

Choose the PhotoStation Manager Enhancer Edition if you want to:

• use all the features of the PhotoStation Manager Essentials Edition.
• annotate photo images with text or graphical notations in the photo image.
• digital measure features with a high level of accuracy for change tracking or reimbursements.
• create report outputs that additionally include measurement output details.

The PhotoStation Manager Enhancer Edition is our top of the line product offering. You can purchase the a single CPU license for for $3,995. This allows you to Capture, Organize, and Enhance photo images from one or more digital cameras, and create customizable photo image report outputs on a single computer system.

The 4D PhotoStation System ...

Choose the the 4D PhotoStation System if you want to:

• have a complete system that includes all components needed to shoot consistent, high quality photo images.
• easily position your camera for repeating the same shot over time while having your hands free to enter notational data and control the shooting process using your computer.

The 4D PhotoStation System comes in two configurations.

The base 4D PhotoStation System includes the PhotoStation Manager Essentials Edition software. The system is priced at $8,495.00.

The step up 4D PhotoStation System includes the PhotoStation Manager Enhancer Edition software. The system is priced at $9,995.00.

The 4D PhotoStation System includes a one year warranty, technical support, and software updates.