5 Types Of Photo For Designing Your Own Photo Memory Book

A photo memory book is a great looking and long lasting way to remember some of your favourite moments. It is also a great looking way to create a stunning photo idea to give to any loved one in order to help them celebrate a birthday or anniversary.

PR Log (Press Release) – Mar 30, 2010 – The greatest feature of personalised photo memory books is their flexibility and this means that you can use virtually any style and type of photograph in order to create the exact type of photo memory book that you want to include. http://www.bagsoflove.co.uk/books/


A Photo Memory Book

The photo memory book is completely customisable. You can add one or two photos to customise the front and back cover of the photo book and you can include one or more photos for every single side of every single photo memory book page. More complex designs enable you to add two or more pictures per side but the simple and elegant standard layout offers printing across the whole page of a single photo.


1 – Personal Photos
Personal photos are a great way to create a lasting photo memory book for yourself. Use pictures from major achievements and events in life or just use your favourite pictures of yourself. If you can't find enough pictures that you like then ask friends and family if they have good pictures of you that can be included. Also consider updating old paper print pictures by scanning them on your printer or computer and adding these.

2 – Family Photos
Family photos are another beautiful addition to a photo memory book and these can be used to create a photo book for yourself or as a gift to another family member or close friend. Use pictures of individual family members and add group photos too. Depending on the size and style of photo book you choose, you have anywhere from 30 to 80 sides to personalise according to your own design requirements.

3 – Wedding Photos
A wedding is the biggest day in a couples' lives and it is also a day when the whole family get together to celebrate. Add professionally taken photos as well as those taken by family members, friends, and other guests in order to gain a great combination of professional, staged shots, and more candid shots as well as a variety of pictures of the happy couple and their guests.

4 – Romantic Photos
Valentines Day is the most romantic day of the year and it should be celebrated with romantic gestures and gifts. A special Book of Love is a 20 page book with a soft cover. Choose a picture for the cover and a picture for the left side of each of the double page spreads. Also write the text that is printed on the right hand side in order to accompany each photo.

5 – Newborn Baby Photos
The arrival of a newborn baby is another of those occasions that will be celebrated by the whole family and by friends and other loved ones. There will be many photo opportunities in the first few weeks alone and this means an ample photo collection to create a stunning photo memory book. The photo book is designed to last for many years so baby will be able to look at their own pictures as they grow up too. http://www.bagsoflove.co.uk/books/
 
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Contrado Imaging Ltd a specialist company operating in the personalised bespoke imaging sector for consumer and commercial markets.
Contrado focuses on making digital photo products specifically to order with the customer's own photographs or artwork.

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Inkjet Supplier Photo Paper NOW - New Website

Photo Paper NOW have launched a fantastic new website shopping cart – it is the easiest to use on the internet! There you will find inkjet photo paper, t-shirt transfer paper, magnetic paper, art canvas, gloss / satin / matt single and double sided

PRLog (Press Release) – Oct 08, 2009 – Photo Paper NOW have launched a fantastic new website shopping cart – it is the easiest to use on the internet! There you will find inkjet photo paper, t-shirt transfer paper, magnetic paper, art canvas, gloss / satin / matt single and double sided papers – as well as many more inkjet Papers - it is so User-friendly.

And the service doesn’t stop there – in a recent poll of their clients 98% said they received superb customer service:
· This included form the online help system that allows people browsing the Photo Paper NOW website to chat to someone who is an authority in Inkjet Photo Papers
· The help doesn’t stop there, the simple order process allowing you to pay by credit and debit cards, paypal and sage pay.
· The delivery and packaging that follows also demonstrates that Photo Paper NOW intends to be the leader in its field.
· All customers received the orders quicker than anticipated and in very strong protective packaging that showed that the paper is valued and cared for through to delivery.

They have also recently made wholesale reductions to their shipping charges – based upon their strong relationship with their multiple delivery partners. These reductions even include FREE shipping for order over £45.

Multiple customers have written in to Photo Paper NOW to expressly thank them for their high quality products and service – as well as the value for money approach that the Business Development Director, Simon Harris, ensures is delivered.

Simon stated “The Inkjet Photo Paper Industry is a very competitive one, with cheap low quality papers available from the Far East, and the Printer manufacturers charging an excessive profit on their papers, there is room in the market for high quality online paper merchants to flourish – Photo Paper NOW is at the fore-front of these companies and is continually achieving growth and striving to excel in the areas of product quality and customer satisfaction – we look forward to serving you soon!”

www.PhotoPaperNOW.co.uk looks forward to your next visit.
For ideas on how to use Inkjet Photo Paper creatively please visit our support site - http://support.photopapernow.co.uk/

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Photo Paper NOW is a dedicated online paper merchant for quality inkjet paper. Our range covers the highest quality papers - sourced with the EU for our valued customers

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Tecagora Solutions Releases Snapact Photo Manager v1.4

Tecagora launches an update to Snapact Photo Manager which includes new Acquire Wizard designed to simplify the process of transferring photos from a camera or any external device to computer.

PRLog (Press Release) – Oct 06, 2009 – Victoria, British Columbia - Tecagora Solutions Inc. is pleased to announce the release of Snapact Photo Manager v1.4 with new Acquire Wizard.

Since the release of Snapact v1.3.1, the team at Tecagora has been researching, defining, and designing a process that will allow its Snapact users to easily acquire photos from their devices, while also giving them the flexibility to view and decide which photos they wish to transfer from those devices.

“Our goal has always been to create a photo viewing and management tool that is simple and easy to use”, states Bruce Kwan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Tecagora Solutions. “In order to view and manage your digital photos, you must first acquire them from your digital camera, external hard drives, USB flash drives, or memory cards. By integrating the new Acquire Wizard, we have given our users the ability to view and select which photos they wish to transfer from the devices to their computer, rather than transferring all the photos and later having to view and select which photos they wish to keep or delete”, says Kwan. “The new Acquire Wizard will also eliminate the process of importing unwanted photos and using up more hard drive space.”

In addition to the Acquire Wizard, Snapact Photo Manager v1.4 includes minor bug fixes.

To learn more about Snapact or to download your copy of the Snapact Photo Manager and register for your Snapact Online Photo Sharing and Social Networking account, please visit http://www.tecagora.com

About Tecagora Solutions

Tecagora Solutions Inc. was created to develop, market, and deliver leading edge technologies with the vision of revolutionizing the world of photo sharing and social networking. Founded by professionals with extensive experience in software development, global business development, sales and marketing, Tecagora's mission is to understand the needs of its customers, currently from 139 counties around the world, and to offer innovative software solutions to meet those needs.

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Tecagora Solutions Inc. was created to develop, market, and deliver leading edge technologies with the vision of revolutionizing the world of photo sharing and social networking. Founded by professionals with extensive experience in software development, global business development, sales and marketing, Tecagora's mission is to understand the needs of its customers, currently from 139 counties around the world, and to offer innovative software solutions to meet those needs.

Categories : Technology, Photography, Software
Tags : snapact, tecagora, photo, manager, sharing, social networking

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New Alien Skin Software Photo Bundle: get 5 Award Winning Plug-ins & Save 10% from SmartImages.com

Five award winning Alien Skin Photo Plug-ins now available to buy as a Photo Software Bundle from Smart Images saving you over $500 compared to buying them separately. The Photo Bundles includes Blow Up, Bokeh, Exposure, Image Doctor and Snap Art.

PRLog (Press Release) – Oct 05, 2009 – Five award winning Alien Skin Photo Plug-ins now available to buy as a Photo Software Bundle from Smart Images, saving you over $500 compared to buying them separately, but it gets even better - throughout October you can save a further 10%! http://www.smartimages.com

The Photo Bundles includes: Blow Up, Bokeh, Exposure, Image Doctor and Snap Art. Each plug-in is designed to improve the photography workflow by improving image quality and saving time. Meaning more time being creative behind the camera, something every photographer wants! Go to www.smartimages.com/p337/Alien_Skin_Photo_Bundle_(Mac/Win)/product_info.html

Alien Skin software create powerful yet simple, easy to use plug-ins that really do make a difference. The Alien Skin Photo Bundle means photographers will be fully armed to cope with all those post-shoot essentials like; quickly and easily enlarging photos using Blow Up 2; utilise Bokeh to alter the focus and depth of field in photos after the picture has been taken; restore old photos, remove unwanted blemishes and objects in photos fast and reliably with Image Doctor; simulate the look and feel of traditional film using the 300 plus presets in Exposure 2; and turn photographs into beautiful works of art with a click of a button with Snap Art 2. Take a look at http://www.smartimages.com

Sarah Bailey of Smart Images states “The Photo Bundle from Alien Skin gives the photographer a complete set of plug-ins to speed up their workflow and enhance creativity.” The result is higher quality output of digital photography, meaning happier clients and more business for photographers – we hope!

About Blow Up
Blow Up enlarges photos while keeping them crisp and clear. Blow Up 2 takes the complexity out of preparing photos for printing with a user interface that intelligently handles resizing, cropping, and sharpening. The sophisticated enlargement algorithm produces photos dramatically sharper and more detailed than any other method.

About Bokeh
Bokeh accurately simulates focus effects created by real lenses. Photographers use Bokeh to draw attention to their subject by manipulating focus and depth of field after the shot has been taken. From changing the depth of field to placing a radial sweet spot and adding a vignette, Bokeh has many tools for realistic blurring and altering the mood of a scene. Bokeh is the first software based on mathematics sophisticated enough to produce a natural blur and creamy highlights.

About Exposure
Exposure accurately simulates a wide range of film stocks, including ones that were discontinued such as Polaroid®, Kodachrome®, and Scala®. Attention to the subtleties of film grain, contrast, saturation, and color cast brings back the unique looks of classic film. With over 300 presets for films, special effects, and dark room techniques, it is easy to get started with Exposure.

About Image Doctor
Image Doctor is a complete toolset for photo restoration, smart object removal, blemish concealment, skin softening, and JPEG artifact repair. Even severely damaged old photos can be restored. Portrait touchup with Image Doctor results in blemish free and smooth yet realistic skin.

About Snap Art
Snap Art turns a photo into a beautiful work of art with a single click. Choose from ten natural media and hundreds of styles, such as oil paint, watercolor, and pencil sketch. Detailed simulation of individual brush strokes and canvas texture gives results that are indistinguishable from handmade art. You make the creative choices while Snap Art takes care of all the tedious work of drawing brush strokes.

About Smart Images
http://www.smartimages.com Smart Images is the fastest growing online Digital Photography Store. Buy photography software & hardware online, experienced staff & competitive pricing. Smart Images is committed to offering quality digital imaging solutions at discounted prices.

To speak with a US Sales Team Member call +1 201 793 8582 and to speak to a UK Sales Team Member call +44 (0)20 8133 6710.

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Smart Images is the fastest growing online Digital Photography Store. Buy photography software & hardware online, experienced staff & competitive pricing.

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Pixmac Reaches 7 Million Of Stock Photos In Just A Year!

The Pixmac microstock agency is proud to announce that we now offer 7 million stock photos for our customers. Only a few competitors can say the same. Our collection consists of 3 sources. Two are creative and one editorial called “Celebrity”.

PRLog (Press Release) – Sep 24, 2009 – Pixmac is the fastest way to get a stock photo or illustration for your design for a price that might surprise you.

When the pink company launched its marketplace in September 2008 it might have seemed like just another microstock company that is trying to make it. But look how much we have grown in a year! Pixmac has partners in 9 major markets and its sales are growing faster than expected.

Our company is growing faster than other competitors in the microstock market according to respected site Alexa.com and the amount of pictures grows with it. Not only that, Pixmac invented the “One Stop Shopping” way to get inexpensive quality photos in a matter of seconds without need of registration. Lee Torrens, a well known microstock blogger, says: “I LOVE your one-stop-shopping idea! It has always been a missing element of microstock agencies...” Yes, Pixmac focuses on speed and user friendliness.

Pixmac offers a lot now and has more in the oven to offer our customers. For example, Pixmac is working with a University on a project that will change your searching abilities and will make searching quicker and easier. We are also adding another few million photos to the database soon and working on some nice stock photo searching tweaks.

This week we're launching a new updated website together with features such as Moneybookers payment method which added with payments by PayPal and/or Credit Card. Also we have included a popular feature that sorts search results by downloads or date.

Vitezslav Valka (CEO) comments: “I’m always thrilled to see our customers happy with the user interface. Everybody deserves an easy tool that just works. I’m watching everything that happens in the company and believe me, it’s better than Red Bull and Duracell together!”

And one last thing for insiders. Watch our Twitter for special offers!

Categories		:	Microstock, Pixmac, Photography
Tags		:	stock photo, royalty free pictures, pixmac, microstock

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Online Theft Costs The Photo Industry Up To $10 Billion

In contrast to illegal film and music downloads, file sharing of copyrighted images goes largely unchallenged

PRLog (Press Release) – Sep 17, 2009 – Chicago, Illinois – Vivozoom (www.vivozoom.com), the microstock business with the first and most extensive image warranty, has announced that the tacitly accepted practice of stealing stock and microstock images adds up to as much as $10 billion annually. While the entertainment industry targets the worst violators who share music and movie files online, the practice of image theft rages at the expense and embarrassment of stock and microstock customers unknowingly using unauthorized images, and of photographers whose revenues are cannibalized. This cycle is something Vivozoom is aiming to end by setting a standard for protecting both purchasers and photographers by legally defending any of its customers for damages and costs totaling up to $25,000.

The confusion over image rights in general can lead to the downloading and use of unauthorized photos. The Los Angeles Times was recently called out on various blogs (for example: http://thomashawk.com/2009/08/so-the-los-angeles-times-t ...) for lifting copyrighted, all-rights reserved photos of wildfires from the image-hosting site Flickr.

According to PicScout (www.picscout.com), a company that uses image-recognition technology to track content on the Internet, some 85 percent of the rights-managed images detected on commercial websites are being misused, as reported by its customers over the last seven years. Stock and microstock theft totals up to $10 billion, based on PicScout’s 85 percent figure and annual revenues of $2 billion for the stock image market.

Even with such losses, the stock industry has not responded with the same vigilance as the music or film industries. One photojournalist, Leif Skoogfors, who over four decades has covered wars in the Balkans, Central America and Northern Ireland for such publications as Time and Newsweek, estimates he has lost $180,000 in income on just two of his photos widely lifted from the Web. “Nearly everyone who uses unauthorized copyrighted photos has a good chance of getting away with it,” Skoogfors said. “Often, they aren’t even aware they’re illegal.”

“This is not an isolated incident,” said Skoogfors’ attorney Nancy R. Frandsen, who specializes in copyrights and trademarks for the law firm of Woodcock Washburn and has represented both sides in the larger intellectual property dispute. “It is the same copyright infringement issue that the music industry is fighting – but who has more money and therefore more power to lobby the government?”

Lawrence Gould, co-founder and CEO of Vivozoom comments: “The ease of online access, through tools like Google Images, is challenging the concept of image copyright. When thousands of images are easily found and copied with a couple of mouse clicks, it’s easy to see that people may not realize that there is a cost associated with the use of some images.”

Gould, who has logged more than two decades in the stock industry, previously as director of Tony Stone Images and CFO of Getty Images, sees no major obstacles to the continued use of unauthorized images online. Vivozoom aims to address these issues by guaranteeing ownership of all its images, making it the only microstock company to provide a warranty (www.vivozoom.com/warranty.html).

“No one wants to halt the benefits that come with ease of use online,” Gould said. “But photographers and distributors deserve to get paid for their work while our customers deserve the peace of mind. In a culture where theft is euphemistically known as file sharing, how can these working professionals survive when perhaps the most underreported online crime is ignored?”

About Vivozoom
Vivozoom (www.vivozoom.com) is a new microstock-licensing company that combines carefully selected images – all photographers contribute by invitation only – and the industry’s first and most extensive ownership guarantee. The company promises to legally defend its customers for damages and costs totaling up to $25,000. Established by former Getty Images executives Lawrence Gould and Tom Donnelly, Vivozoom features an easy-to-use Web site offering the work of such microstock celebrities as Andres Rodriguez, Yuri Arcurs, Ron Chapple and Kirsty Pargeter.

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