Every sort of online presence where you wish to engage your audience needs a visual example. People react to images much better than just the text or audio how much ever descriptive. That is why you need an image gallery which allows people browse through whatever they are searching for. If you thought image galleries are for artists and photographers you are not just mistaken you are ignoring powerful marketing and visitors engagement tool that could benefit you immensely.

If you thought image management is all about only storing your photographs and categorizing, you will need a brief glimpse into the big picture. Image management is more about storing your photographs in a proper folder allocating a category to each, allocating a tag and a search reference as well as putting the exif data and the description of the image to be stored along with the image. Image management is also all about storing and recalling and image whenever a person is searching for them. It can be anybody searching for the image, it could be you searching for a past image, a customer searching for not just one but multiple images of a product from different angles to give him a better idea of what the product would look like.

If your website is all about images it is ideal that you create a gallery for you website, using a software that is a wholesome image management system. You can also create a slideshow using these images as slideshow that looks like a video where in people get to see e different varieties and combinations of the same product. You should have the ability to create multiple folders while allocating each folder and image a different tag and several levels of sub folders so that categorising becomes easy and each image can be properly tagged to make it accessible for visitors to your site. For artists, photographers or collectors it is of immense importance that your product can be listed under multiple tags. So, it can be visible along with others which qualify for a search query.

Now what would you need to upload image galleries to your website?

• A licence to publish your image gallery to your website, which you would get once you buy complete version of the software.
• Ad-free version is very important since, you paid for it you will not get ads. Display of ads is another cause of oncern. When you buy a version with licensing you do not have to worry about this third party distraction. You have absolute control over your image gallery.
• Do you already have a website or a web hosting available? You can upload your image gallery to the website or the hosting and create your additional website or a new one. If not the image gallery software makers jAlbum provide you with a power account wherein you get hosting and domain to put your independent website.
• Updates and upgrades are so easy, you should receive upgrades for a year also if you want to upgrade account it is way easy.
• Do you want to pay for same software again and again? You do not have to buy this software once you have paid for it. People have very happily used the software for years.
• Multiple methods of creating folders with ease, date, month, timestamp, tag, category, etc. The search can yeild results in similar fashion so as to provide user with almost perfect image Search results.
• Proper display on the image gallery with important classification of parameters to make it easy for the user to understand.

Image management software can work in online as well as offline scenarios and can be used not just for business but also for archiving and categorising you family albums or your business albums.