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Wedding Albums, Should You and Why

Many of my prepackaged Wedding contracts today come with what is called a Wedding Album. The wedding album has come a long way in the last ten years or so. Gone are the days of the 50 4×6 albums in an ornate album much like the ones that your parents wedding photos are displayed in. No, today’s albums are truly works of art designed to do more than simply display the images from the couple’s great day. They are designed to tell a story, the fairytale if you will, of this couples love and how it blossomed into the marital bliss of the wedding day. Today’s albums are essential to your wedding package offerings.

Everyone has their own style and while we are photographers at heart and not necessarily Graphic Artists many times we can get by with just simple Photoshop skills to get things done. Many imaging companies today offer software to make this process easier. I have used several from several different printers for several different styles of books. I can say 1st hand that the software can range from very easy to use (beginner) to more of a moderate user level. They all offer their own version of free templates and most let you do some minor editing to those templates. Fortunately for those of us not graphically inclined there are plenty of Graphic Designers out there who have created custom templates for you to purchase to use for your photography album clients. Read More→

Droidography – HP iPrint Photo

iPrint PhotoWelcome back to my column.  How many times have you wanted to print a photo directly from your Droid to your printer?  I had wanted to do that an stumbled upon the iPrint Photo from HP a couple months ago.  Its pretty cool!  However, you need some specific hardware for it to work.

First you will need a HP Wireless Printer…ours is an HP OfficeJet 4500 Wireless running on our Wireless DSL home network.  Then you will need to download the app and be within range of your wireless network when you want to print.

Once you install and launch the app, you will be asked to select a photo.  Once you have done that, you can click on the photo to edit it.  If you choose to edit it you can crop it to print just the image you want.  If you choose to leave it as is, from the main screen you can click on one of the two other buttons available on the main screen at this point.  Print is the lowest one on the screen and its obvious what it does.  The other button allows you to go into settings and select your printer.  You MUST have your phone’s Wi-Fi on in order to print or search for printers on the network, just FYI.

Once your wireless printer is found, you can select paper size, image size, paper type, # of copies, and paper source.  Additionally, you can view these settings from the main screen.  All in all its a pretty neat way to get a hard copy of that cool pic you snapped with your Droid. Read More→

2011 WPPI Coverage – MOO.com

MOO.com Business Cards for PhotographersMOO.com LogoI had the chance to meet with Paul Lewis, Head of Marketing from MOO.com, at the 2011 WPPI Trade show and Convention, to talk about their unique and personalized printed products. MOO’s Printfinity option allows you to print a different image on every card to show off your portfolio. Products include: business cards, mini cards, postcards and sticker books. One of the new products coming for summer are business cards with rounded corners. Be sure to check them out online at MOO.com.

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2011 WPPI Coverage – Pinhole Pro

Pinhole Pro Logo

I had the chance to meet with Bart Robinson, VP Digital Technologies Group of Pinhole Pro, at the 2011 WPPI Trade show and Conference, to talk about their new web service. Pinhole Pro provides another revenue stream for photographers. Now you can shoot, burn and earn additional income when your client’s purchase premium products from Pinhole Pro using your unique code.

Simply shoot the event, burn the images to disc and give the client your special code. They upload the images to Pinhole Pro to create beautiful products and you continue to earn money long after the event has passed.

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