Cropping photos is no longer complicated.
CroppingTool is an
advanced face recognition software for dating sites that automatically
crops the thousands of irregular snapshots submitted by your
subscribers to your desired size and aspect ratio. CroppingTool turns
sub-standard images into attractive headshots that create a clean and
consistent look to your dating website.
With CroppingTool you will ---
Save over 70% of your cropping budget
Eliminate manual or kludgey photo cropping processes
Increase your conversion rate and customer satisfaction
Make your site look more "together" and professional
Dramatically increase the perceived attractiveness of your members
Overview
Introduction:
The
dating web site industry is an extremely competitive one with hundreds
of sites fighting over the world's singles population.
Photos are
the principal asset of any dating site. Photos attract new subscribers.
The better your photos look, the more new subscribers you will attract.
Photos also have the enormous benefit of humanizing the site to create
a more "real" and appealing environment. Unfortunately, in most cases
the photos being uploaded by members have an opposite effect. The
photos are inconsistent - are of different sizes, quality and
resolution. They are often so sub-standard that the impression new
visitors get is one of a cheap and cheesy environment. That's why
AmericanSingles.com and Yahoo Personals among others spend thousands of
dollars on making sure their members' main photos are as consistent in
size and resolution as possible. Why? Curb appeal is one of a dating
sites most valuable qualities.
The problem:
Most dating
sites that crop photos use some variation of a manual cropping process
that may be semi-automated but usually involves some human intervention
to make work.
Any manual process that requires human
intervention is by default expensive and time consuming. And as your
member base size grows, it gets more so. Once you reach profitability,
you may be cropping thousands of photos per day. That is, if you care
about what your site looks like to new members.
Manual cropping takes time…
Members
who are eager to get started on your dating site often have to wait
hours or days to get their photos cropped and approved.
Making your customers wait for their photos to be approved can cause problems too:
The member may get frustrated and lose interest
The member could be ignored by other members because of the missing photo
Members
may not understand why their photo is unavailable and consume your
customer support resources asking about that. Sound familiar?
Your goal should be a minimal approval time.
Manual cropping could get really expensive…
Many
dating sites use off-shore resources to reduce the cost of cropping. A
reasonable solution yet, dealing with off-shore resources is many time
complicated, difficult and has its own problems such as communication.
Also, this doesn't solve the time problem.
The solution:
As
the leading provider of online dating photo services we understand the
importance of photos and we know the pain (financial and otherwise)
that surrounds the photo cropping problem.
We've created the
perfect, painless solution to this problem -- an automated tool that
will crop photos as soon as they are uploaded by your member --
quickly, effortlessly and without human intervention. For pennies on
the dollar, you can now turn those sub-standard snapshots that degrade
the overall appeal of your site into attractive, consistently-sized
headshots.
How it works:
Our tool is easy to integrate with your site and implement.
1.
Installation: Depending on your needs and system configuration, you can
either install our software on your server (local install) or use the
software on our server (remote install).(tell me more)
2.
Integration: Integration is dirt simple. You'll simply call the
cropping function from your program code wherever and whenever you'd
like the cropping function to be performed (tell me more)
Programming languages we support:
All programming languages are supported (ASP / VB6 / VBS, .NET, PHP among others).
Capabilities:
Our
technologically amazing cropping tool uses advanced algorithms to crop
close to 90% of all images that have a "human face" -- blurry and fuzzy
photos as well as clear ones. Even photos that show profiles or partial
profiles can be cropped perfectly. Black and white, color, sepia toned
or photos with sub-standard color balance or contrast will also be
cropped into attractive, consistent headshots. Please visit our online
demo!
Cropping size:
You determine the size of the cropped
area. Most dating sites currently crop at around 100 pixels wide and
100 pixels high (give or take). This is an adjustable parameter you can
control.
Pricing:
Please contact us about pricing.
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