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StudioPlus offers an extensive library of free video training tutorials. Learn how to use your StudioPlus product more effectively, from exploring the basic features and setup to working with advanced digital workflow, marketing, and financial tracking. You can train yourself and your staff whenever and wherever you want!
When you click the video links below, you will be given the opportunity to watch the video in a viewer right on our website or, if you prefer, to download the video to your computer to watch at your studio. Each video page also contains a brief description of the video, an outline of the content or written step-by-step tutorial, and additional resources that may be helpful to you and your staff.
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Learn how Spectra Professional integrates with CaptureOne 3.7. (NOTE: Not available for CaptureOne v4 or v5.)
OnLocation is an add-on tool for Spectra Professional that lets you use Spectra in your studio and on location at the same time!
Discover all the special features in Spectra Professional designed for the wedding or event photographer. See how to create the wedding contract and track event revenue.
See the typical high school senior workflow in Spectra Professional - from adding and importing clients, group capture, and individual image importing - to lots of great reports, yearbook CD creation, pose-selection tracking, and more!
Watch this video to see how to remove a group of records that you no longer want in your database or reports.
See how the Spectra Professional Control Center works for you - automating database maintenance (including backups, updates and more!) and InspiredByYou connectivity.
Discover how to download even more reports to add to your reports menu in Spectra Professional!
Find out how how this powerful tool helps you easily filter data in order to select a specific group of records for reporting, marketing, and exporting purposes.
See how to select different printers for your printouts and where to design your own client, account, and session labels.
This video explains the session numbering options, tabs you can display or hide, and fields you can customize!
If you know a little HTML, use the HTML email feature in Spectra Professional to create emails that appear with graphics and formatting, just like a website.
This video explores options regarding client numbering, checking for duplicates, and which tabs are displayed on the Client information screen.
Learn how to customize the Spectra wizards, so they best fit the way you work!
Find out which Spectra preferences are specific to each user.
Find out all about how Spectra integrates with credit card readers (swipers) as well as cash drawers, labelwriters, and barcode scanners.
Discover how easy it is to have your staff clock in and clock out; and how to preview and print time sheet reports in Spectra Standard and Professional.
Learn how to easily control your staff's access to different parts of Spectra Standard and Professional, as well as their ability to perform certain tasks. Add and adjust levels of security - give supervisors more access than employees, but less access than owners.
See how triggers can turn Spectra Professional into a wonderful employee who will automatically send appropriately personalized emails (with or without attachments), print personalized letters, and create phone call records!
This video covers how to set up and assign session promotions in order to get valuable insights from Spectra's promotion sales and analysis reporting.
Find out how Spectra’s import and export features allow you to import and export client and prospects.
See how to set up Spectra to send email to clients and prospects individually, in bulk, and automatically.
Learn to create phone call records individually, in bulk, and automatically. Then use Spectra to remind you of your calls and tasks - in detail.
This video shows you how to design professional form letter templates and customizable labels.
Learn how to record information in Spectra for easy marketing based on birthdays, anniversaries, and much, much more!
Spectra Professional can help you manage your production time. Keep track of how many days an order stays at each status and find out how many minutes and hours your studio staff spends working on each task.
Spectra Professional has the ability to print bar codes for clients, sessions, invoices, and production orders. You can then use a bar code scanner to quickly look up records and advance the status of production orders.
See how Spectra Professional can simultaneously track all the different parts of customer order, even when using multiple vendors.
When a client orders prints or other products, production orders can be generated automatically by Spectra Professional or entered manually by your studio staff.
Production orders in Spectra Professional are used to record the orders you place with your labs and other vendors to fulfill your customer’s order. A single customer invoice may contain several production orders according to how many vendors are needed to fulfill the customer’s order.
Spectra Professional's proof orders are helpful for studios that shoot film and for those that wish to track proofs that are due to go out or be returned.
Spectra will help you track all your yearbook poses and create yearbook CD's too!
Easily maintain your online settings and look up web orders, right from the same software you use to run your studio.
Take your studio online with InSpiredByYou.com, the online hosting and ordering service from StudioPlus Software.
Rendering images is the process where Spectra builds new image files from the your originals, using the changes you’ve made in Spectra. You may render out images for proofing or preview purposes – such as printing proofs or loading images up to a website – or you may render images from an order for printing.
Use Spectra's composite feature to create digital products such as multi-image wall portraits, custom album pages, holiday cards, sports cards, or image effects. Quickly and easily drop your client’s images into the composite, instantly creating a custom digital product.
Designed for shooting tethered, Spectra’s Group Capture feature can save you countless hours of manual processing!
See how to add copyright information and watermarks to your images and then preview, print, and export professional proof and contact sheets.
Organize your post-sale workflow by learning how to link Spectra with your image editing software and how to use production orders.
Begin presenting your images to your clients using Spectra. Find the tools you need to be more efficient, increase average orders, and create invoices in one place.
Learn how to capture images into Spectra from a camera card, CD, or tethered. In one step you'll copy the images to the session folder, rename the files, create low-res preview files, and burn an archive CD.
Learn how Digital Workflow is used in Spectra and follow the steps to complete the setup for your studio.
Learn how to track commissions in Spectra Professional - earned by product or product line - and how to set up different percentages or rates for photographers, bookers, sales reps, and assistants.
Set up payment plans for your customers in Spectra Professional and then process them individually or in bulk! Even have Spectra auto-send email letters confirming payments.
Spectra Professional can help you manage gift certicate and gift card sales, redemptions, and donations. Find out how to check the available balance and run reports too!
This video explains how to post invoices, which is necessary to make the invoice appear on the sales tax report; how to transfer information to your accounting software (if it's set up to do so); and how to lock your invoices.
See how Spectra Professional can help you manage payments and prevent payments from being changed once the information is transferred from Spectra into your accounting software.
Learn exactly how to integrate your accounting software with Spectra Professional.
The Dashboard is a powerful tool in Spectra Professional. Discover the amazing ways it can help you set budgets and track performance.
This video covers some of the reporting options in Spectra, including invoice and payment lists, accounts receivable reports, and sales analysis reports.
See how easy it is to create professional invoices for all your orders! Learn when to use client-based and session-based invoices, and find out why all invoices for session fees, initial orders, and re-orders are session-based.
Set up additional options such as: price lists for specific session types, item costs, options & enhancements, price levels, and quantity-based pricing.
Set up your price list and sales tax to begin invoicing in Spectra Express.
Learn how to schedule sessions for a group of clients, in just a few clicks!
See how easy it is to schedule a session or appointment for multiple people/resources/days.
Learn how to sync Spectra with your Google calendar!
Learn about the very important session detail screen!
Learn all the features of the appointment detail screen!
Spectra's easy-to-customize Scheduling Wizard will guide you step-by-step as you add a new session or appointment for a new or existing client, create the invoice to cover the session fees, record a payment, print a confirmation, and more!
Learn to set up, view, and edit your appointments, sessions, and entire schedule more efficiently. See the shortcuts available to instantly see multiple schedules (even for multiple days), discover how to change what is displayed – and more!
Learn how to use the Spectra Database Utility to manage your database, including how to back up, restore, and compact & repair your data.
Learn how to add and look up clients and prospects in Spectra – and how to browse, sort, filter, and search for them based on almost any criteria. See how to easily track all the information you collect – and access it quickly and easily.
The Preferences Wizard walks you through some basic setup options, so you can begin to use Spectra right away!
Learn where everything is in Spectra and how to easily locate clients, sessions, and other records. Check out the power of your Home page, the features of the calendar, and see how workflow 'works.' Discover how all the customizable screens can keep your studio running smoothly and on schedule!
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