Shozam! Galleries

Shozam! is a new gallery service aimed at professional photographers. “Shozam is the best product for professional photographers to quickly and easily promote, protect and sell images online,” said Brooks Clayton, President of Mid South Color, Jackson, TN. “I’ve created Shozam galleries with hundreds of images in under 10 minutes, start to finish. And the results are top notch. We recommend Shozam to our customers, and include it as part of our complete photographic and digital service offering.” The Shozam Business Edition is estimated to retail at a regular price of $299.95 and will be available in April 2007. The Beta version is free until the official launch of the product.

Komotion Press Release

Komotion, Inc., the makers of the popular, award-winning Web Gallery Wizard™, announced the availability of the beta version of Shozam!™. Designed for professional photographers, Web designers, photo enthusiasts and artists to showcase and sell their work online, Shozam is the only product on the market today that provides advanced features and flexibility in an easy-to-use package, allowing users to truly own and monetize their content.

A software, client-side mash-up, not a Web service, Shozam galleries are “portable” among PCs, Web hosts and social networks (via widgets).

This flexibility provides offline immediacy and impact. Galleries – complete with slideshow and background music – can be created and updated offline, moved easily from Web host to Web host, or even burned to CD and shared with clients on the spot. To extend online presence on photo-blogs and social networks, Shozam widgets provide an eye-catching, sticky method for grabbing attention.

“Shozam is the best product for professional photographers to quickly and easily promote, protect and sell images online,” said Brooks Clayton, President of Mid South Color, Jackson, TN. “I’ve created Shozam galleries with hundreds of images in under 10 minutes, start to finish. And the results are top notch. We recommend Shozam to our customers, and include it as part of our complete photographic and digital service offering.”

Shozam removes dependency on online photo sites, eliminating commissions and reducing third-party fees. For those who want control, not “community,” Shozam users make their own business decisions and use vendors they choose. They control image compression and protection, the look and feel of the gallery and where it is hosted. Users monetize images, videos and galleries with integrated PayPal and Google AdSense™ for online advertising by simply filling in a few fields, and Shozam does the rest.

“We know the frustration with Web 2.0 services controlling and monetizing content,” said Razvan Neagu, President and CEO of Komotion. “We created Shozam so anyone can own and make money from their content, and showcase it online with a professional and custom look. It is the only offering that integrates ‘best of class’ features from existing online services, professional Web design and software titles into one, easy to use, portable online gallery creator.”

Users can get their own high-end results at a fraction of the time and cost of using a Web designer. Galleries with thousands of images can be designed and generated in minutes, not months. Gallery themes feature a Flash animated intro, standard static HTML code, and can be further personalized with the built-in Theme Editor.

Additional advanced features to showcase and sell images
• Image, video and audio support
• Image protection (watermark, right-click disable)
• Geo-tagging (Google Maps™)
• EXIF data display
• HTML custom code (add Web site banner, widgets, etc.)
• Search Engine Optimization (automatically adds metatags)
• Info page (Contact us, Biography, etc.)
• Customizable page links (to other Web pages)

Availability
The Beta version is free until the official launch of the product. Once the Shozam! Business Edition is released, Komotion will offer special introductory pricing of $100 off for the first 30 days after the product is released.

The Shozam Business Edition is estimated to retail at a regular price of $299.95 and will be available in April 2007. It’s also available for personal use, without ecommerce features, starting at $49.95. The Shozam Lite Edition is free. Trial versions are also available. Shozam runs on Microsoft Windows®.

About KOMOTION
Established in 1997, Komotion provides products and services the help businesses and consumers showcase their digital media online. The Company is located in Bellevue, WA. For more information, visit: http://www.komotion.com.

Published: Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Reader Comments

1. This article misses the most important thing: a link to the Shozam! Web site:
   http://www.shozam.com

   Razvan Neagu at 08:01pm on Wednesday, April 11, 2007

2. I have been using Shozam now for a few months, as a beta tester and now as a business edition user. I have created several galleries, edited, modified and used as many of the features of Shozam as I needed. I find it to be very stable, and most of all, very easy to use. I looked at many other programs to display my photography online but found none, short of learning how to "script\", that came close to offering what Shozam does. I expect to be using Shozam for years to come. Modest examples of the type gallery Shozam can create can be viewed at my website. Great program!
   
   Tom Purse
   Northwest Scenescapes

   Tom Purse at 04:28am on Saturday, May 19, 2007

3. I downloaded the Lite version of this program which looks great! Since then I've been trying to order it online with my credit card and it's impossible. I get error messages saying e-mail address does not match when it does, and that my address does not match that of my credit card, or that credit card details are incorrect. None of the error messages are relevant to the information I've supplied. Have contacted them explaining the problems and get standardized replies which basically tell me to follow the instructions given on their order form. - none has addressed the problems I have raised The latest is that my Bank has rejected the payment for non-specific details. Now I've reverted to ordering and paying by wire transfer. Now I'm wondering - if Shozam can't address problems when ordering, what likelihood is there for constructive support when (?if) I ever manage to get the darned thing.

   Jan at 08:36pm on Tuesday, July 24, 2007

4. RegNow handles payment processing and fulfillment of Shozam orders. You can contact them by phone at 1-877-353-7297, or 1-952-646-5331 (International). If you are still having issues, please let Shozam Help Desk know at http://helpdesk.shozam.com. We are happy to assist you.

   Razvan Neagu at 11:36pm on Tuesday, July 24, 2007