Creating a unique photo book and printing just one copy of it, or maybe another two for the grand parents, has become increasingly popular in many British families. Some businesses are also discovering the beauty of professional, glossy photo book print at minimal print runs. This allows to experiment with different images and lay-outs and to keep stocks of promotional material low. The market for online consumer photo printing is very competitive and businesses can benefit from the low prices and high quality of some of the photo labs.

Why would a business want to print books in extremely small print runs?

Businesses, large and small need to present themselves and what they do. An architect or creative furniture maker should be able to show prospective clients references of past work. Hair stylists have started to do the same. With a couple of copies of a book showing exemplar haircuts in the waiting area, the stylist may influence clients wishes for a hair cut by the stylist's past work.

Creative professions

Creative people love photo books, those in creative professions are no exception. From creative carpenters to cabinet makers and bathroom and kitchen designers, many use photo books to illustrate different styles and real projects they have realised. Of course, those images work on websites, but taking a book to a client to show or displaying some in reception or the show room looks really professional. 

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Internet-fotoudbyderen FotoInsight lancerer i dag den nyeste version af FotoInsight Designer software til Windows, Linux og Mac OS med nye fotoalbummer på fotopapir.

Århus, 23.06.2010. - Europas mest populære fotobogsprogram til Windows, Linux og Mac OS laver fotobøger på op til 130 sider på kun tre minutter. Ud over de allerede kendte fotobøger giver den nyeste version af FotoInsight Designer nu også mulighed for at lave albummer på fotopapir. Ifølge producentens oplysninger holder farverne sig levende i længere tid på moderne fotopapir. 

I FotoInsights nye album med fotopapir ligger hver eneste side helt fladt

FotoInsight påpeger at siderne i de nye fotopapir-albummer ikke længere buler op, men at albummerne kan åbnes 180 grader og ligger helt fladt. Til de nye albummer med fotopapir benytter man nemlig en ny bogbindingsproces, fordi der bruges tykkere og mere kraftigt papir end i de andre CEWE fotobøger. Den nye indbindingsmetode gør at siderne ligger fladt uden at bule op i midten. Billeder der går hen over to sider, ser meget flottere ud på flade sider. Direktøren for FotoInsight, Klaas Brümann, forklarer: "Med det kraftigere papir og de lysende farver i de nye fotoalbummer man en meget større kvalitetsoplevelse end med de gængse, kendte CEWE-fotobøger. Vi regner med at fotopapir-bøgerne især bliver populære blandt professionelle brugere og til bryllupsalbummer!" 

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Cambridge. 7 June 2010. - The modern day father comes in various forms. Today’s father is no longer always the traditional, married breadwinner and disciplinarian in the family. He may leave the house to go to work or work from home, he can be single or married; gay or straight; a biological, adoptive or step-parent; and a more than capable caregiver to children facing the physical or psychological challenges of growing up. 

Well into the nineteenth century, fathers’ roles were primarily to serve as breadwinners and the conveyers of moral values and religious education to their offspring. However, with the advent of industrialization and urbanization and as factories emerged as major sources of employment, several generations of fathers became distanced from the household and their families.  

Family patterns in the post-industrial society are changing again. With a large proportion of mothers leaving home -many providing household income- the arrival of the Internet and distant working opportunities, many modern fathers' roles involve them much more in the home.

When celebrating fatherhood, it is time to remember that like any other member of the family, fathers too have their own interests and lives.  Despite the changes in the male role, the contemporary debate recognizes men commonly as being competitive and with a greater need to ream. Even many modern fathers follow sport events in a group of friends. What could the loving football fan enjoy more than his own 'World Cup ware'?

A sport bottle personalised with own photographs and texts for the gym or a bike ride or a traditional one pint beer mug with image onprint are presents for Dads with a difference. Creating a unique supporter shirt, caps or a bbq apron for a World-Cup-Party at home is fun. For the bread winner who leaves to his office a crystal pen holder block with a laser engraved photograph will avoid having to leave the family totally back home.   

The ideal modern father is the one who parents from his heart and models respect towards his children’s mother, who wears an apron too and can be seen using a mop, a washing machine, or any home appliance that was taboo in past generations, one who thinks his responsibility as a father is more than bread-winning and disciplining, one who cares not just for the physical needs but bonds with his children and supports their emotional needs. 

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FotoInsight lancerede i dag en række nye fotogaver af glas. De nye gaveartikler omfatter billedrammer, nøgleringe, penne og et krystalhjerte. Hvis du mangler inspiration til en gave til Mors eller Fars dag, har onlinebutikker som FotoInsight en lang række gaveartikler, som kan forsynes med brugerens egne fotografier.

Århus, 21/4 2010 – FotoInsight, en førende uafhængig digitalfototjeneste, lancerede i dag en række nye laserindgraverede fotogaveartikler af glas, bl.a. billedrammer, nøgleringe, penne og et krystalhjerte. Til de nye gaveartikler benyttes en avanceret teknologi til at indgravere billeder inden i en massiv glasblok. Glasartiklerne lanceres i tillæg til FotoInsights i forvejen omfattende udvalg af fotogaver, trykte fotoalbum, plakater, postkort og kalendere. FotoInsight forventer, at de nye fotoartikler af glas bliver populære gaver til Mors dag.

Efter den amerikanske borgerkrig introducerede man i USA Mors dag inspireret af den britiske udgave. Det var meningen, at det skulle være en dag, hvor kvinder samledes i en protest mod krig under mottoet Mors dag for fred. Det varede imidlertid kun et par år, før Mors dag blev forvandlet til årets vigtigste kommercielle begivenhed. Nu handlede det om at give gaver som tegn på, at man værdsatte og agtede sin mor, og snart spredte den sig til resten af verden. Den ideelle gave til Mors dag bør derfor være lige så personlig som forholdet. I fotogaver kan man ofte kombinere det nyttige eller fornøjelige med det personlige. 

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Tryk på lærred blev hidtil kun fremstillet af værksteder der for dyre priser trykte kunstværker i håndarbejde på lærred og spændte det op på rammer. FotoInsight har gjort processen automatisk og tilbyder nu denne dekorative vægudsmykning med ens egne billeder bådet til hjemmet og kontoret via internettet.

Århus. 25.02.2010. – Det har aldrig været nemmere at lave gode fotos. Masser af digitale fotografier kan komme til at se rigtig flotte ud på et stort lærred på kontoret, i mødelokalet eller hjemme på væggen. Hidtil blev fotos kun trykt på lærred af små værksteder – til skyhøje priser. FotoInsight gør nu processen automatisk og giver dermed mulighed for at man kan få sin helt personlige vægudsmykning for en billig penge.

FotoInsight, en specialist som bruges af både professionelle og hobbyfotografer, trykker fotos på lærreder med 300 dpi i størrelser fra 20 x 30 cm (digitalt billede med mindst 800 x 1.100 pixel) og op til 60 x 80 cm (hvor 2.500 x 3.300 pixel anbefales). Billedet spændes op på en kileramme og kan hænges direkte på væggen. FotoInsight bruger moderne fibre der er optimeret med hensyn til holdbarhed og farvebrillans, samt standardstørrelser der i vid udstrækning muliggør en automatiseret produktionsproces. Ifølge FotoInsight har man derved for første gang nogensinde mulighed for at opnå en vedvarende høj kvalitet og lang holdbarhed til priser der ligger langt under dem der hidtil var gængse på markedet.

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Biskop Valentin von Terni är känd som en helig martyr. Han avrättades den 14 februari 269 på grund av sin tro. Biskop Valentin ska ha trotsat förbudet från den romerske kejsaren Claudius II och vigt förälskade som han enligt legenden skänkte blommor från sin trädgård. En modern Alla hjärtans dag-present för flickvännen, pojkvännen eller partnern behöver något mer personligtän vad köpta blommor ge. 

Göteborg och Cambridge, 22 januari 2010. -- Den internationella onlinefototjänsten FotoInsight erbjuder från och med idag och i god tid inför Alla hjärtans dag en bildpanoramamugg som trycks med en ny teknik. Den här nya presentidéen utökar sortimentet för Alla hjärtans dag i år så att det går att få presenter med en riktigt personlig touch. Muggen med panoramafoton utökar FotoInsights redan tidigare omfångsrika sortiment av fotomuggar och koppar.

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Biskop Valentin af Terni er helgen og martyr. Han blev henrettet på grund af sin tro den 14. februar 269. Ifølge sagnet viede biskop Valentin forelskede par på trods af forbud fra den romerske kejser Claudius II, og det hedder sig at han gav de nygifte par blomster fra sin have. Når man i dag vil give en valentinsgave til kæresten eller ægtefællen, har man dog brug for noget mere personligt end en købt blomsterbuket.

Århus og Cambridge, 20. 01. 2010 . -- Den internationale online fotoservice FotoInsight tilbyder nu – i god tid til alle der har brug for gaveidéer til valentinsdag – et foto-panoramakrus hvor der gøres brug af en ny teknik med tryk hele vejen rundt. Denne nye gaveidé giver nu endnu bedre muligheder for at vælge en personlig gave til dette års valentinsdag. Kruset med panoramafoto er et interessant supplement til FotoInsights tilbud af fotokopper og fotokrus der i forvejen er meget omfattende.

Hos internet-fotoudbyderen FotoInsight bliver dine digitale billeder til personlige valentinsgaver, som modtageren vil glæde sig over i flere år.

• Hjertekugle med dit eget billede – fotoet sættes ind i midten.

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For at sikre at der kan fremsendes fotogaver over hele Europa til jul udvider FotoInsight nu sin internationale tilstedeværelse. 

Århus, Oldenburg og Cambridge. 1.12.2009. - FotoInsight har siden november 2003 tilbudt udvikling af fotos og et bredt udvalg af fotogaveartikler til både private forbrugere og virksomheder. Nu vil fotoudbyderen også tilbyde sin service i Danmark. Virksomheden er vokset kontinuerligt i de første seks år den har eksisteret, og sælger nu aftryk på ægte fotopapir, fotobøger, fotokalendere og fotogaver i over 32 lande og på syv sprog. Ekspansionskursen førte virksomheden til Italien i oktober 2005, til Spanien i februar 2006 og til Frankrig i april 2007. Hver af de internationale websites og kundeserviceafdelinger passes af et team af medarbejdere med det pågældende modersmål. Kvalitet og hurtig forsendelse i hele Europa sikres af seks strategisk placerede produktionsafdelinger, der garanterer alle fotogaver der bestilles inden d. 15. december, bringes ud i Danmark før jul.

Direktøren for FotoInsight, Klaas Brümann, mener: "Danmark har et højtudviklet, digitalt fotomarked med særdeles kræsne forbrugere, og vi har allerede for flere år siden vundet mange trofaste kunder her med vores engelske service. Vores erfaring viser at der er masser af potentiale i FotoInsights kvalitet og tilbuddet med den avancerede CEWE FOTOBOG. Vi går ind på markedet med nye produktideer og en tro på at de danske kunder vil sætte særlig høj pris på vores permanent høje kvalitet." FotoInsight udvikler fotos ved brug af patenteret laboratorie- og trykteknologi fra Tyskland, Schweiz og Israel. Sammen med det engelsksprogede internationale websted betjener FotoInsight kunder i alle vesteuropæiske og de fleste centraleuropæiske lande og er dermed en af de førende internet-fotoserviceudbydere i Europa.

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Canvas printing is popular for a family portrait from a professional photographer or a wedding picture. But any well achieved photograph in sufficient resolution could decorate an office or home. A framed poster or canvas print from a photograph is in any case more personal than a poster from a furniture store. A few years ago, during a visit to a well know Swedish furniture chain, I noticed that most of the posters on the shelf had already been there in my own youth. This popular chain charges about £30 for a framed print. Own photographs printed onto a canvas cost about twice as much, but are infinitely more individual than posters from stock and they preserve personal memories.

Instead of standard decoration for our teenager's room we printed a photograph from her skiing holidays which she chose, onto a large canvas. The print was so good and popular, that many more poster and canvas prints have followed since. It doesn't really matter if a poster print from an artist makes a higher cultural claim. Own photographs reflect the photographers impressions, and thanks to digital technology, these can be reproduced, just like when telling a story through pictures instead of words. Most people with digital images from holidays, parties or family pics have such images which should be on display.

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When well being and friendship become more important than material goods, then the way presents are selected changes, too. Ann Green has put together a list of Christmas gifts available online. The gift ideas range from the decorative, the practical to family friendly games. They all have in common, that they can be personalised with own images. 

Berlin, London, Cambridge. 6 Nov. 2009. Finding the right Christmas present for your friends and family is a challenge you have to face every year. When a few basic rules are observed, finding original and affordable presents can become quite easy. Last minute purchases should be avoided, it only causes stress at the wrong time of the year.

Christmas, celebrating reunions

Searching for and buying Christmas presents can be completely relaxed when done from home on the Internet. Questions like: "What would she like or what would be useful to him?" or "Does it have to be that expensive?" have become redundant in our affluent society, where people have already bought the things they want and what they have not bought yet they don't really want. For this Christmas here a list of individual gift ideas to preserve personal memories and to celebrate families and friendship. These are largely photo gifts, personalised with own images.

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Berlin. London. 5 Nov. 2009. Printing-1 produces long lasting photo book. Now the online photo book specialist is adding an gloss vanish option to sealing the photo book pages. This ensures that after the whole family has browsed through the new photo book at Christmas it will still look like new. As an environmentally aware enterprise, the printer ensures through compliance with ISO 14001* that the pages in photo books from Printing-1 remain free of toxic substances.

Glossy prints last longer

For three years Printing-1 has been offering customers the opportunity to design their individual photo book. To the range of photo canvas prints and photo books as well as photobook calendars Printing-1 now adds the glossy photo book. For this the complete photo book pages are coated with an environmentally friendly glossy varnish, which improves brilliance and detail. 

Environmentally friendly diversity

Customers can choose among seven different photo book formats with up to 250 pages. A longer lasting book binding is achieved with a Polyurethan (PUR) glue, which keeps the photo book pages in place. Thanks to the new High-Gloss finish option, the printed surface is protected from wear and de-colouring, ensuring a long life for the book and the photographic memories within. The new hi-gloss can even be used with a good ecological conscience.

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Ever more and better images rest on ever smaller storage media. FotoInsight uses increased image resolution for innovative photo products and offers during October 2009 only 1/3 discount on photo calendars orders.

Cambridge. 7  Oct. 2009. - A professionally printed calendar using own photographs must rank among the most convenient photo gifts for friends and family. But photo labs can only print calendars, once the images have been uploaded. In the days before Christmas calendar production is running at full capacity. To entice early birds, FotoInsight offers 1/3 off on photo calendars during October with the discount voucher "EARLYBIRD". Those ordering their personalised Christmas gifts in October can therefore make real savings.

Photographic calendars can be ordered by uploading 13 digital images online. Alternatively FotoInsight also offers free Designer software, with additional calendar models, many calendar templates and many more editing tools than an internet browser could handle. Editing the calendar through a special software tool allows for example to freely position any number of images on a single page. This is useful when an event should be enhanced by scanned holiday memories, like entrance tickets, postcards or maps – these can now be integrated into a professionally printed photo calendar. The increase in design flexibility follows requests from customers, ordering photographic calendars year after year for friends and family.

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Cambridge, 20 August 2009. - Europe's most popular photo book software is now also available for Linux and Mac OS. Against an ever growing number of photo book services, FotoInsight is increasing its technological lead with the introduction of version 4.5 of FotoInsight Designer. The application is available as a free download on the photo service's website and it can create a 130 page photo book lay-out in under three minutes. The new release of the order software adds photo albums processed on thick, lustre finish photographic paper pages. The new photo paper album styles ranging from 26 to 82 pages (in steps of eight pages) are only available in the FotoInsight Designer software.

In FotoInsight's new Photo Paper Album each page lays flat

FotoInsight states that the book bulge in the new photo paper albums disappear, as the pages lay flat when the book is opened 180 degrees wide. A new binding process is being used for the album pages, which are thicker than pages in CEWE Photobooks. This allows the pages in an open photo paper album to lay flat, rather than bowing or arching up towards the spine. Flat pages make it easier to view images which spread across a double page. FotoInsight's Managing Director Klaas Brumann states: "The new printed photo album's thicker pages provide a premium feel over traditional coffee table style photo books. We expect the new photographic paper books to be popular with professional users and for wedding photo books!" 

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Cambridge. 23 July 2009. - When the start of a new school year approaches, the school bag needs filling. The online photo printer FotoInsight from Cambridge offers a new service to individualise such items. The idea is to personally engage the youngsters with their school supplies, to ensure that they will look after them. In addition, own pictures of a pet, a group of friends or from the holidays keep positive memories alive. An aluminium water flask with a personal photograph is less likely to be kicked in-lieu of a football. The school bag will be treated with due care if the the own image has been printed onto it. FotoInsight now prints digital photographs onto practical items like spiral note pads, money boxes or fluffy key rings.

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Online poster and canvas services will usually only print the customer’s image. FotoInsight is launching its new “Deco Shop”, where a matching, natural wood frame can be combined with a mounted canvas or laminated poster. Large format prints from own digital photographs will then be delivered mounted and framed, ready to decorate the wall at home or in an office.

Paris and Dublin. 23 June 2009. – The resolution of digital cameras is rising constantly. Many digital photographs could impress at home or in an office meeting room, when printed as a laminated poster or a stretched canvas in a floating frame. With the right image it makes a worthy present.

FotoInsight, a specialist serving amateur and professional photographers alike, prints canvases in different sizes from 20x30 cm (minimum resolution 800 x 1100 pixel) to 60x80 cm (2500 x 3300 pixel recommended). FotoInsight states that it uses man made optimised fibres and fade-resistant "archival" inks to guarantee longevity and brilliant colours. The hi-tech inks penetrate deep into the fabric and can therefore be printed and mounted over the edges of the wooden frame. Standardised sizes allow a largely automatic production process. According to FotoInsight this ensures constant quality and long durability at lower prices for the first time.

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Easy to use authoring tool to collect, store, organize and publish information.  

London. 23 June 2009. - vetafab Software is releasing a new version of it's Windows application lexiCan. According to the developer, the upgrade improves productivity and collaboration. Individuals and teams use lexiCan to manage information and knowledge for projects, in business management, research and idea gathering. The developer is also introducing a new read only client lexiCan Reader, which allows users to publish content such as guides, manuals, references, support data bases, knowledge bases within a network with one click, making publishing as easy as editing. The software remains simple, no special training is required.

Similar to a personal Wikipedia, lexiCan allows users to build articles using texts, pictures, tables, links to websites and files. Using the title as a reference, articles can be accessed in seconds even in voluminous collections, overcoming the daily burden of clicking through folder hierarchies as done in Windows Explorer. Unlike Wikipedia, lexiCan purely works as a desktop application based on Microsoft .NET framework, enabling user convenience, such as setting links per drag and drop or dropping emails from Outlook into a description. lexiCan features full text search that includes embedded files. The developer points at several other intuitive retrieval features, like an automated view on pictures, embedded files and tags. Articles can have multiple tags which lexiCan displays as a list or clout. The article tree can be structured in the application's Outline section.

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Canvas printing is popular for a family portrait from a professional photographer or a wedding picture. But any well achieved photograph in sufficient resolution could decorate an office or home. A framed poster or canvas print from a photograph is in any case more personal than a poster from a furniture store. A few years ago, during a visit to a well know Swedish furniture chain, I noticed that most of the posters on the shelf had already been there in my own youth. This popular chain charges about £30 for a framed print. Own photographs printed onto a canvas cost about twice as much, but are infinitely more individual than posters from stock and they preserve personal memories.

Instead of standard decoration for our teenager's room we printed a photograph from her skiing holidays which she chose, onto a large canvas. The print was so good and popular, that many more poster and canvas prints have followed since. It doesn't really matter if a poster print from an artist makes a higher cultural claim. Own photographs reflect the photographers impressions, and thanks to digital technology, these can be reproduced, just like when telling a story through pictures instead of words. Most people with digital images from holidays, parties or family pics have such images which should be on display.

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Photo sharing from Flickr, Facebook, Picasa and geotagging site "locr" come to personal printed photo albums. Today FotoInsight launches a new version of FotoInsight Designer, now also for Macintosh and Linux. The service adds new photo book formats and new features like fading frames and festive templates.

Cambridge, 17 March 2009. - Against an ever increasing number of photo book services, FotoInsight is increasing its technological lead with the introduction of version 4.5 of FotoInsight Designer, which is now also available for Linux and Mac. The ease at which photos can freely be inserted into the book or into templates now also extends to clipart, maps, text and images from photo sharing sites like Flickr as well as the geotagging site "locr" and Wikipedia GeoNames. The photo sharing sites become an online interface for photo book building with family and friends, as users can now complement their printed photo albums with additional pictures (e.g. the Eiffel Tower form a different angle) from photo sharing sites, straight from within the FotoInsight Designer software. 

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Internet specialist ECCE TERRAM exhibits ground breaking innovative software solutions at PMA in Las Vegas – Booth # Q176-4

Oldenburg, Germany. February 13, 2009. - ECCE TERRAM – the innovator and provider of solutions for the digital photo market – will be showcasing its expanded software solution for photo laboratories in the area of ordering programs at the PMA 2009; Along with the 2.0 version of the “iPhone Photo Order Client,” the first Offline Client solution for PC with multi-touch capability is being presented among other things. The company thus again raises the claim of presenting technically sophisticated and innovative solutions.

In many laboratories, online photo orders in which digital images are printed on traditional photographic paper exceeded the volume of analogue photos in 2008. Digital image processing continues to be a vigorously growing industry. Numbers from the 2008 Holiday Season retail trade in many places show that the economic crisis ihas n no way dampened the pleasure provided by digital images. Consumers’ desire for unique moments or very personal photo gifts remains strong. Very few software developers have the experience and knowledge to create a complete solution – from consumer to production, for wholesale laboratories and photo services in the online and in-store market. ECCE TERRAM’s experience uniquely serves these end to end requirements.

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A Dozen Gift Ideas which have not Increased in Price

Cambridge. 25 November 2008. After many years, this will be the first Christmas in a recession. Almost 8 in 10 Britons responded that they are taking steps to make Christmas more affordable, according to research by Birmingham Midshires. The survey of more than 2,000 adults revealed the average Christmas spend will drop by £102. The costs of many important goods of daily life have increased in the current year, the inflation has reached new heights and families are tightening their belts. Not every wish will come true this year.

The recession is a good opportunity to re-think priorities in life

The sad news for children is that 14 per cent of parents will be giving their children smaller stockings this year. And Grandparents need to receive attention, too. The trend is to personalise gifts, self made presents, handicrafts, family entertainment, or a games evenings. Many families could be helped if they communicate the importance of unity at Christmas, setting a strict price limit for presents. Here a dozen gift ideas which have not gone up in price:

• Photo calendars are a classic among the Christmas gifts – printed through a photo lab, calendars look really professional. All photo calendars like the kitchen, table and wall calendars from FotoInsight are also good value! See a  photo calendar test  here.

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The leading players in the imaging industry's fastest growing segment - Photo Books - are getting ready to showcase their latest developments. FotoInsight announces an upgrade to its "Designer" software and new, even larger Photo Books.

Cambridge. 19 November 2008. -- To provide space in which the favourite photographs can shine, photo book services like FotoInsight Ltd are constantly improving their software and their range. So far, most books printed with own photographs are limited to less than 100 pages. With the upcoming version 4 of FotoInsight Designer its photo books can feature up to 130 pages for the first time. After introducing the Photo Book XL (12"x12" / 30x30cm) last year the software upgrade will add a new "Photo Book XXL" format (H12"x16" / H30xW42 cm) in stylish faux leather and with a traditional screw bound. In the new XXL format landscapes can be spread over 80 cm wide double pages. For this, FotoInsight is increasing the print resolution to 360 dpi.

The software upgrade announced for the UK Retail Imaging Show has finally been launched. The clever 'Assistant' in the FotoInsight Designer photo book software will then be able to design a 130 page extra large photo book in under three minutes, For this the application automatically lays out the pages with the chosen images and can put these in order of date, file name or event.

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Online poster and canvas services will usually only print the customer’s image. FotoInsight is launching its new “Deco Shop”, where a matching, natural wood frame can be combined with a mounted canvas or laminated poster. Large format prints from own digital photographs will then be delivered mounted and framed, ready to decorate the wall at home or in an office.

Cambridge. 7 November 2008. – The resolution of digital cameras is rising constantly. Many digital photographs could impress at home or in an office meeting room, when printed as a laminated poster or a stretched canvas in a floating frame. With the right image it makes a worthy present.

FotoInsight, a specialist serving amateur and professional photographers alike, prints canvases in different sizes from 20x30 cm / 12”x8” (minimum resolution 800 x 1100 pixel) to 60x80 cm / 32”x24” (2500 x 3300 pixel recommended). FotoInsight states that it uses man made optimised fibres and fade-resistant "archival" inks to guarantee longevity and brilliant colours. The hi-tech inks penetrate deep into the fabric and can therefore be printed and mounted over the edges of the wooden frame. Standardised sizes allow a largely automatic production process. According to FotoInsight this ensures constant quality and long durability at lower prices for the first time.

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September is the month of the world's biggest trade fair for the photographic and imaging industries, the bi-annual Photokina in Cologne. The leading players in the imaging industry's fastest growing segment - Photo Books - are getting ready to showcase their latest developments. FotoInsight announces a upgrade to its "Designer" software and new, even larger Photo Books.

Cambridge. 22 September 2008. -- To provide space in which the favourite photographs can shine, photo book services like FotoInsight are constantly improving their software and their  range. So far, most books printed with own photographs are limited to less than 100 pages. With the upcoming version 4 of FotoInsight Designer its photo books can feature up to 130 pages for the first time. After introducing the Photo Book XL (12"x12" / 30x30cm) last year the software upgrade will add a new "Photo Book XXL" format (H12"x16" / H30xW42 cm) in stylish faux leather and with a traditional screw bound. In the new XXL format landscapes can be spread over 80 cm wide double pages. For this, FotoInsight is increasing the print resolution to 360 dpi.

The software upgrade announced for Photokina shall be launched online on the 16th of October 2008. The clever Assistant in the FotoInsight Designer photo book software will then be able to design a 130 page extra large photo book in under three minutes, For this the application automatically lays out the pages with the chosen images and can put these in order of date, file name or event.

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The best way to create a calendar with your own photographs

There are three different ways to make your own photo calendar. If you have many photo prints which you prefer to stick onto paper and if you want to add hand drawn images, an old style pre-printed calendar template will still be useful. More versatile and interesting is making photographic calendars through software, and the result looks most professional when printed by a proper photo service. For this you normally have to use the software which the (online) photolab provides (usually) for free at http://fotoinsight.co.uk/calendar

FotoInsight offers wall and desktop calendars. All calendars are printed professionally on 250 gr/m2 paper using Indigo technology (except the Desktop calendar in tin box which is processed on photographic paper) and cost between £4.99 and £16.99 per calendar plus £2.80 delivery (Europa wide, also with seperate delivery address).

Printing-1 is the independent option for photo book calendars for Mac OS and Windows PC users, but no wall calendars. Printing-1 websites includes a kind of photo sharing service, which allows to show the layout to others online prior to a print order: http://www.printing-1.co.uk - Discount: First order £5 off.

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Cambridge, UK. 17 July 2008. – According to FotoInsight, thousands of its online photo printing customers have taken advantage of its new production processes. Modern fabrics, optimised for ink absorption and long durability and standardised sizes which allow a largely automatised production process result in professional quality of a high continuity and durability at lower prices.

Thousands of digital camera users have used FotoInsight to have their photos printed into a photobook or on a canvas. The product has been so succesful, that FotoInsight is now extending its canvas offering to the Mediterranean countries. FotoInsight's Managing Director Klaas Brumann explains the move: “Photo canvas prints are an ideal gift, but sending large format parcels is costly. FotoInsight offers direct shipment of canvases to overseas addresses, ideal for birthday or Christmas gifts. France and Spain are among the most popular holiday and retirement destinations. We expect that both our English and local language services will be popular in the Mediterranean countries.”

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A New Photo Book for 60 cm Wide Landscapes Spread Across Double Pages. The new version of the FotoInsight Pro software is available as a free download.

Cambridge, 22 Apr. 2008. – Most households use digital cameras and a growing share take high resolution pictures which can be enlarged to poster size. While computers, mobile phones and cameras have a tendency to become ever more compact, the resolution (or number of pixels) of digital images is growing ever larger. In line with it grows the demand for large format prints. FotoInsight serves this trend with posters, canvas printing and the new XL photobooks, in which pictures can extend across a 60 cm wide double page spread.

“The digital image quality has improved vastly. The demand for our large format print products like poster- and canvas print has experienced enormous growth” explains FotoInsight’s Managing Director Klaas Brumann and adds: “It was therefore only logical to add a large photo book format; the new XL photo book to our range.”

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The trend to personalised gift production continues. FotoInsight prints photos uploaded over the internet onto gift items. For this year’s Mother’s Day and Easter, FotoInsight expands its range of photo gifts adding the Panoramic Photo Mug.

Cambridge, 29 Feb. 2008. – FotoInsight of Cambridge, a leading independent digital photo service in the UK, announced today a new Panoramic Photo Mug. To apply the wider, panoramic photo onto mugs FotoInsight uses a new rotating print process. The new photo mug is launched in addition to FotoInsight’s already extensive range of photographic gift items, printed photo albums, poster, greeting cards and photo calendars.

Mother's Day is a day honouring mothers, celebrated in many places around the world. Mothers often receive gifts on this day. When searching for Mother’s Day or Easter gift ideas the personal touch and lasting impression are desired which chocolates and flowers can’t provide. Online digital photo services like FotoInsight can help by transforming an individual photograph into a present that will be cherished and remembered for years to come.

• Active families who want to remember their holidays will find the photo book printed from own digital photographs ideal. With a variety of creative themes and page layouts, these one-of-a-kind photo gifts will help to remember a romantic get-away or the every-day moments shared. Photo books in a full colour and fully editable cover start from £14.99 for 26 pages in colour (plus p&p). FotoInsight is promoting Large and XL Photo Books with a £5 voucher (simply write 5YEARS into the voucher field).

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While industrial mass production has been moving to the East and Far East, modern computer controlled production processes increase the flexibility of Europe’s industry, making ever smaller production runs possible. FotoInsight of Cambridge specialises in one of a kind photo gifts for added inspiration at the time of San Valentine’s and Mother’s Day, with an extensive range of gift ideas, to which the photo service applies the user’s digital photographs.

Cambridge, 21 Jan 2008. -- FotoInsight, a leading independent digital photo service, expects the crystal photo ware to be popular as Valentine’s and Mother’s Day gifts. “Love is a special feeling and so it must be expressed in an extraordinary way, Valentine's Day is the perfect occasion. So Valentine's Day gifts are important to make your day memorable in its way” states Catalina Martínez, Head of Communication at FotoInsight Ltd.

When searching for Valentine’s Day gift ideas for a girlfriend, boyfriend, wife or husband the personal touch is desired and candy and flowers can’t provide it. Online digital photo services like FotoInsight can help transforming an individual photograph into a Valentine present that will be cherished and remembered for years to come.

• Love Crystallised: FotoInsight adds to its selection of photo gifts designed to display and preserve cherished photographs. New offerings this Valentine’s Day include crystal heart with a 3D laser engraved photograph, picture frames, crystal key rings, pen holder glass block, hearts of glass with a laser engraved photograph and photo mugs from frosted glass. Special about the crystal key ring is an LED light to illuminate the engraved image.

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The ECCE TERRAM Internet Services company will go to Las Vegas to present its Photo2lab Software Suite on the main photo trade fair PMA, which will take place from 31 January to 2 February 2008. Integrated into the Photo2lab Software Suite is the HDX4 Photo Manager of HDX4 GmbH. This is a HDX4 Photo SDK for professional picture optimisation.

Dortmund. Jan 21st, 2008. - HDX4 GmbH has specialised in the development of software all about the topics of burning and multimedia. A suitable tool for digital photography is the SDK HDX4 Photo Manager, which other companies can license to upgrade their own software with new functions. SDK includes the two modules HDX4 Natural Enhancement and HDX4 Upscaling, both proprietary developments from the technology laboratories of HDX4 GmbH.

A distinctive feature of the HDX4-modules is that they can help to turn any snapshot into a really professional photograph – it only takes a mouse click. So far, photographers rather used trial and error to adjust brightness, contrast and colours; now the software can detect imperfections of pictures and corrects them without need for further user intervention. Frank Simon of ECCE TERRAM: "Thanks to the HDX4-functions, dark pictures with low contrast and matt colours are definitely a thing of the past. Suddenly, the sky prints perfectly blue and details, which were in the shade become visible again."

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The project, Ethanol & Orphans, is looking for celebrities who think it is a good idea and who will endorse the project.  The project sponsor is the not-for-profit charity, Our Family Orphan Communities, Inc. 

The Ethanol & Orphans project is currently underway in Vietnam where we will be building a cellulose ethanol refinery and using the profits to build:
 - a Self-sustaining, high-tech, green Community for street orphans where they will be raised in families with surrogate parents and grandparents, given care, skills (job, computer, familiy/life) and supplemental education.
 - a Medical clinic supported by the profits from the refinery so those who cannot afford it can still receive treatment.
 - more care for disabled children (who are still today being born with birth defects from Agent Orange which was used in the war in the 60's and 70's) so they can learn to be self-sufficient even with disabilities.

We are looking for people who care about:
 - improving the environment
 - using less petrochemical fuels
 - helping developing / third world countries to improve
 - street children living barely surviving
 - disabled children who need assistance
 - providing medical/dental care for those who cannot afford it
 - protecting food sources (we will use sugarcane for the refiery, NOT grains)
 - providing education for children, the future leaders of their country
 - and more humanitarian projects

The celebrities will be asked to speak about our project when they can, and to allow us to use thier comments/picture/name in our website and promotion materials.

For complete details about the project, see: http://www.orphancommunities.org
For questions, write to us at: info@orphancommunities.org
 
Please forward this to others who you know will be interested in supporting this project.

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