Taopix Portfolio on show at Graph Expo 2011

The solutions suite is devised of over 250 new enhancements, including:

ProType:This new vector text engine is a powerful tool that allows bi-directional language support, paragraph and character spacing, enhanced paragraph alignment and skewing, width, border and stroke effects. The new text tool provides some of the most advanced typographical features available and is designed to keep service providers one step ahead of the competition.

Social Sharing:A customer’s photographs are not always on their local hard drive or memory stick, as they’re just as likely to be stored in a Facebook or Flickr account. Taopix Portfolio will enable users to download images from these popular sites into the customer’s project, as well as being able to choose from files stored locally on their hard drive. This feature provides users with access to more images that can be incorporated into their projects.

Library Link: Content-sharing sites with stock photography for purchase and download can now be uploaded directly into Taopix Designer. With the new API users will have access (via preferred content owners) to high quality images online. This feature opens up a whole new range of possibilities for users, encouraging more professionals, and affiliates alike, to engage with photo book purchasers.

Shopping Centre:The new Taopix shopping cart allows the ordering of multiple items (i.e. books with different color covers, paper and accessories, ribbons, gift boxes and bundles), all able to be shipped to the customer in one box. The purchaser can also specify alternative shipping addresses.

Send to Friends: Taopix Portfolio now encourages digital sharing. Once the customer has ordered their photo gift, they can choose to reorder imore copies or they can send a link (via email or social networking sites) to family and friends to encourage them to buy copies for themselves. The recipients receive a direct link to the digital photo book and click to view each page using page turning technology. They then have the option to purchase without having to download the client software themselves.

Offline Order: Taopix Offline is a module that allows users to receive orders when an internet connection is not available (via CD, DVD, Memory Stick, etc.). This module also offers offline integration points for third party systems, including shopping cart breakout, allowing users to reach beyond the internet to enhance their projects and experience.

Availability Taopix Portfolio enables users to also profit from production of digital scrap books, proof books, trader cards, calendars, greeting cards, postcards, posters, photographic prints, T-Shirts, mouse mats and self-published books. At the same time, users keep exclusive control over the business model including branding, pricing, templates, and client page design, eliminating the need to pay for additional services.

“Our new release, TAOPIX Portfolio, is the culmination of countless months of research, 20,000 man-hours in development, 250,000 lines of new code, and extensive lab and field testing”, commented James Gray, CEO and Founder, Taopix. ”It started by simply listening to our customers and their evolving needs. The result is a TAOPIX solution that’s 95% enhanced to offer a more friendly and attractive user interface, numerous image editing features [such a one-button fix that corrects nine different image issues including red-eye], and so many other innovations that we know it’ll set new industry standards.”

Taopix Portfolio is scheduled for release in Q4 and will be available through the company’s network of worldwide distribution channels.