A Web-based software tool for photographers, advertising agencies and other imaging professionals, LiveEdit, is now available to the public. Allowing imaging professionals to cut costs and save time across the entire process, the revolutionary online program puts image workflow and images at the fingertips of its users anywhere, anytime.

For optimal creativity and time management, the new service was created by professional photographers. Giving photographers a few abilities, its intuitive interface is divided into to four core applications: Retoucher, Edit, Archive and Stock:

    * Collaboratively edit photo shoots
    * Compare and share retouching comments
    * Archive images
    * Sell photos 24 hours per day
    * Create layouts
    * Edit the color of images
    * Rate photos
    * Create Contact sheets
    * Enable clients to independently access high-resolution photos they need, when they need them

Darren Lipman commented: "Creative companies face business continuity problems because too often one person holds all of the knowledge about creative assets." Darren added: "Live Edit empowers everyone at a creative company to make the best use of creative assets."

Enabling them to showcase and sell more photos by creating a personal stock site, users are able to track their entire archive in one place, which will.

Including savings when it comes to storing and cataloguing photography, agencies and companies who utilize the service will find a myriad of benefits. The software has been successfully used by a variety of companies, including InStyle magazine, Conde Nast Publications, Proctor and Gamble, L'Oréal.

For photographers, LiveEdit (http://www.liveedit.com ) helps them save time and money when it comes to reduced production times, and helps keep everyone who uses it more organized - especially considering that imagery can be accessed with ease from anywhere on the planet.