Archive for Web Photo Services
Pictage Acquires ShootQ
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July 7, 2010 – PRESS SUMMARY - Pictage announced their acquisition of ShootQ, a web-based software company offering the industry’s most advanced business management solution. The combination of Pictage and ShootQ will will give photographers a comprehensive platform to manage their workflow, promote their brand, connect with community, and sell their work. Read More→
Shutterfly Photo Books “Friend” Facebook
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May 22, 2010 – Here’s something that all of you 400 million + Facebook users may be interested in. Shutterfly, the #1 photo book provider, announced the integration of its Simple Path photo book creation experience with Facebook, allowing users to access their photos and their friend’s photos to create premium quality photo books in minutes.
Picasa Makes it Easy to Share Photos on Google Buzz, Blogger and Twitter
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May 2, 2010 - Google just updated their Picasa service by adding links to make it easier to share a photo or an entire album on Google Buzz, Blogger and Twitter. When viewing a photo, you’ll now see icons to the right for each social network. Simply click the appropriate icon, customize your message and post it. Google also updated the “Link to Photo” URL so that the album name is hidden on the viewer’s photo page, making it possible to share just one photo within an album keeping the rest of it private. See the Google blog for more details.
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PhotoShelter Releases Free Report “The Photography Blog Handbook”
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May 2, 2010 - PhotoShelter just released the latest in their popular series of free reports for photographers titled “The Photography Blog Handbook”. The handbook provides essential internet marketing guidance for aspiring and pro photographers looking to grow their photography business online. This 35 page e-book tackles some of photographers’ most commonly asked questions about managing a photography blog, like Why should I blog? How can blogging really help me get more business? How do I make the time I spend blogging worthwhile? And, who’s reading this thing anyway? Here’s a link to download your free copy of The Photography Blog Handbook. Read More→
Peachpit Announces Free Online Resource Center for Adobe Creative Suite 5
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May 2, 2010 - To accompany the Adobe CS5 launch, Peachpit, publishers of technology books, eBooks and videos for creative people, announced the launch of their CS5 online resource center and the publication of new books and videos designed to enable readers to get the most out of the powerful features of CS5. The resource center offers complimentary excerpts, video tutorials, detailed book descriptions and articles from CS5 experts. Their new books and videos are aimed at all levels of users and cover all that’s new in CS5, including Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Flash Catalyst and more. Read More→
Pictage Adds Slideshows for Premium and Pro Subscribers
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April 23, 2010
PRESS RELEASE
Pictage Announces General Availability of Slideshows Application for Professional Photographers to Quickly and Easily Showcase Images to Clients
Leading Online Platform for Professional Photographers Incorporates Powerful Service for Creating, Displaying and Distributing Engaging Slideshows in Just Minutes; Slideshows Enables Pictage Members to Effortlessly Share Images with Clients in Professional Online Presentations with Music and Effects
TORRANCE, Calif.–Pictage (http://www.pictage.com), the leading professional photographer community and online platform for marketing, selling, and fulfilling professional photo products, today announced the completion of beta and general availability of Slideshows, an exciting application that allows professional photographers to easily create multimedia presentations of professional photos in just minutes, and then effortlessly share them with clients and prospects by e-mail, via Web sites, blogs, and social media profiles, or in person. Available for free to Pictage Premium and Pro plan subscribers, the powerful tool simplifies a photographer’s marketing workflow, and complements the company’s many other services designed to save time and enable photographer success. Read More→
Jalbum and Jack Hollingsworth Team Up for Themed Shoots
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April 23, 2010 – Photo-sharing service Jalbum.net announced a new collaboration with my friend and world-renowned photographer Jack Hollingsworth. Together they’ve created a series of photo shoot events geared around a specific theme. Jack will lead and tutor the Jalbum community of photography enthusiasts in these events with the first theme being Close-up photography followed by Portraits, Street, Urbex and HDR photography. Each theme will be introduced in a blog post and will also have a competition element and a user group on Jalbum.net where anyone can participate.
Jalbum is also releasing a new gallery template designed by Jack’s team. The gallery template geared towards pro photographers includes YouTube and Vimeo integration, smooth transitions and a slide show option. The template will be available for download and use on any web site. Read More→
Pictage Offers New Monthly Subscription Plans
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April 15, 2010
PRESS RELEASE
Pictage Introduces New Monthly Subscription Plans to Give Professional Photographer Members Greater Choice and Flexibility
Online Photography Services Leader Now Offers More Affordable Subscription Rates with Broader Range of Support Options to Further Empower Photographers and Enable Success
TORRANCE, Calif. Pictage.com (http://www.pictage.com), the leading professional photographer community and online platform for marketing, selling, and fulfilling professional photo products, today announced the availability of three new monthly subscription plans that give its professional photographer members greater choice, increased flexibility, and more affordable pricing to better assist them with building their respective businesses. Read More→
Now You Can Add Music to Your Zenfolio Photo Presentations
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March 13, 2010 - Zenfolio a premier provider of online photography presentation and sales solutions, in a direct response to their community has partnered with Triple Scoop Music to offer their users a unique way to add music to their photo presentations on their Zenfolio website. Music files can be selected to play when a visitor enters a photographer’s portfolio home page, views customizable full-screen slideshows or along with embedded slideshows on external websites.
Through this partnership, all Zenfolio users will gain access to 50 high-quality songs from TSM available for use at no extra charge. Supplementary Triple Scoop Music subscriptions are also available for the low fee of $20 per year for an additional 25-song collection or $40 per year for the entire Zenfolio library offering an additional 100 songs. Read More→
Pictage Unveils New Brand Identity and Tag Line
Posted by: | CommentsMarch 13, 2010 - Pictage introduced a major corporate rebranding campaign, which includes the introduction of an exciting new visual identity, an original and more focused tag line, a revamped company website, rebranded products and services and an innovative trade show booth that could be seen at WPPI.
Their new tag line “Empowering photographers. Enabling success.™” clearly emphasizes the company’s focus on and commitment to providing its members with the practical business tools, inspirational support and artistic encouragement they need to be successful. Read More→
- posted on 07/31/2010
