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Hemera Image Express
reviewed by Geetesh Bajaj, February 6th 2004
Introduction
Subscription or Pay Per Image?
Register, Login and Buy
Search
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Introduction
Trust Hemera to come up with something amazing at a price point
that's so affordable and tempting that everyone will want to join
this bandwagon. We are discussing Hemera's new Image Express, an
online subscription based service that allows you to download loads
of images for a low price.
I also need to add that Image Express replaces Hemera's GraphicsDesk
service - I have a review of GraphicsDesk somewhere
on this site if you are interested in some memorabilia! You might
also want to check my Hemera Photo-Objects reviews for Volumes
I/II and Volume III.
Before we proceed with the rest of this review, I want to thank Mats
Lindeberg, Communication Manager at Hemera who's been my
contact for this review.
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Subscription or Pay Per Image?
Image Express does allow you to download single images without
any subscription. You pay US$4.95 for the first five images and
US$0.99 for every subsequent image. Subscribers, on the other hand
can download any number of images during the period of their subscription.
Currently, Image Express offers subscriptions for a month or a
year.
You'll find more info at the Image
Express site...
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Register, Login and Buy
You need to register - even if you don't want to subscribe or
buy single images. Predictably, registration is free. You need
to provide basic information like name, email address, password,
country, etc. The email address automatically becomes your login
ID. You can choose a unique login and password that identifies
you each time to use the Image Express service.
Subscription or buying single images requires you log-in with
your unique username - then you provide your credit card info through
a secure server and choose your options.
Of course, you can search even without logging, registering or
subscribing.
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Search
To search, you use keyword(s) - you can also restrict your searches
to return results that include only photographs, illustrations
or Photo-Objects. Results are displayed
as thumbnail pages (see screenshot below). You can further fine-tune
the results by entering new keywords and searching within existing
results.
Each thumbnail has two icons beneath - click the icon on the left
(or on the thumbnail itself) to view all the properties (see screenshot
below) for a particular image.
Clicking the right icon that looks like a folder allows you to
store the image within an Image Folder. So, what is an Image
Folder? We tackle that next....
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