 Great Tips and Ideas from Print-your-own Specialist OPUSalbums.com |
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Blogs for Profssional Phtographers and serious Amateurs on the use of OPUS albums and Innova Papers |
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Blogs for OPUS Partners in computer consumables, photography, scrapbook supplies, wedding supplies, stationery etc. |
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How to design a good inkjet photograph album - digital scrapbook or photo story book. - The definitive guide to making a first class digital photo album. Three e-books in one. |
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A great way to say 'thank-you' for a friend's hospitality - using Print&Bind or PhotoAccordion |
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 People wish to keep their photos and their records for lifetime or even generations, yet many appear unconcerned about the fact that in a few years' time current devices and on-line services may no longer be in use, and even the file formats might not be supported. Old fashioned printed books and documents are still the best. Fortunately they are much easier to produce now. |
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Photographing a wedding
Posing and Photographing the Bride
The Bridegroom and Groups
Photographing the Wedding Cake Ceremony
Photographing after the Ceremony |
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 Ten Tips to transform wedding photos into wonderful preserved memories.
There’s nothing like a wedding for creating photo opportunities. Here is advice for the bride and groom, the parents, guests (especially camera-buffs), and even somebody who wants a novel wedding gift idea. |
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OPUS Albums for the Official Photographer at at Wedding |
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 The events of a holiday form a story. Whether it is a three week adventure or a three-day short break, there is plenty of material to put it into a form that you will remember – and can look back on after years. |
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 There is only one opportunity to capture the key events in your new baby's life. Once captured OPUS is the ideal medium to keep and share those precious moments. See ten tips for baby albums |
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 A party can be a simple gathering, or it can be a lavish or formal event. It is about people – and activities. All these produce memories - albums for you, for your hosts and for the guests. |
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Adults love children’s parties as much as the children. They are the ones too who enjoy looking back at a well produced record of that delightful birthday party or other event. Here are some tips to guide you in creating an album – for your own record – or for the parents, grandparents for that occasion. |
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With OPUS Albums you are working with the spcialists. |
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Print photos and story of 2007 football in OPUS photo album. Photos of champions league, FA cup, chelsea, manchester united, goal, pass, save, fans, red card. |
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Innova Art Paper - Specifiations for OPUS albums and cut sheet Paper |
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 You want a book that
1. Reminds you of the family – or events of the past year.
2. Gives you an year planner for 2010
3. Good to give to your friends, customers etc.
Then here is a quick, easy and economical method using Print & Bind or Pics Book Jr |
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We look forward to going back over our photographic memories. Our photo album collection is the most accessible. Boxes of transparencies, photo prints, videos are not – and will be ignored. The same applies to the digital age. Photos left on computers, CD’s and online services are as invisible and subject to commercial failure and technological obsolescence. Only an easy computer printed photo album is secure. With modern software and supplies it is so easy and effective. |
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In 15 years time will your computer read today's DVDs - will Windows 2022 support JPG files? |
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A pile of photos - or a well-designed album which you can be proud of - Which would you prefer? |
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A Print & Bind picture can cost you 7½p or less - compate that with an instant service mini-lab or your own 6x4 photo printer. Compare it with your priceless memories! |
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My Photo Accordion – the ULTIMATE BUSINESS CARD
Frasser Hay says "Print your business card on both sides" – mine is printed on ten sides. You can get your whole message across – or several messages.
Your problem is being remembered – you have to stand out and be a bit different. Fold a photo accordion dramatically in front of your prospect – you will move along the sales cycle immediately. |
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You pay your money, you get your choice - but there s a beneift from getting quality album printing software. The cheaper ones are not good on printing. |
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Frankly I don't worry about the templates at all. Whatever program I'm using - dg Foto Art, Fotoslate4 or Photoshop I just make sure that there is a 1" binding pages. If double sided this will be on the left hand side for odd page numbers and the right hand side for even pages. If you have a background then it is best if that fills the whole A4 sheet. |
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Last Saturday (3rd November) was a glorious day for colours. Despite winds this weekend looks good too. You don’t have to go to New England. In the South East, Sheffield Park – near Haywards Heath in Sussex is gorgeous. Here are the PhotoArt and Print&Bind albums from this event. |
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2008 Blogs |
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dg foto art v. photoshop cs |
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Using Dg Foto Art wedding photographer Paul Callaghan was able to increase throughput, increase the price of an album by 60% and sell more. |
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Ideas for all album makers, scrapbookers and every user of an inkjet printer from the hobbyist to the Pro |
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For Christmas consider a Year Book, Unibind Calendar, Greeting Card, give software ike dg foto art or Fotoslate4 or a range of albums to produce or make up for your friends |
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A brief look at the new Innova Fine Art Photo inkjet papers, and how they rate compared to the Hahnemuehle and Canson/Arches papers. |
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Why you should use Dg Foto Art for your Weddings in 2009 |
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Dg Fot Art - Special offers at Focus on Imaging 2009 |
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Make your own Wedding album - Print your own wedding photo - Design your own wedding invitation from OPUSalbums.com |
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Which Print-your-own Album should I use. Should I use the OPUSalbums.com Photo art or Pics Book Album? |
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Be part of the Innova Art Community with Facebook Innova Users Group & Wordpress Innova Art Blog from OPUSalbums.com |
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Social and social-business networks (Facebook, Myspace, Linked-in, Xing or my favourite Ecademy) are proliferating – and are increasingly becoming messaging networks. Meanwhile messaging networks such as Twitter are becoming social networks. Also databases – especially photographic databases such as iStockphoto and Flickr are putting in networking (forum) facilities and messaging capabilities.
How does the photographer use these to advantage? |
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 Pay-per-click has its uses. When introducing something or making changes and wanting to test its effect on a volume of traffic it often fulfils a need. However for the most part PPC is a waste of time and more importantly a waste of money. I was paying £130 a month for 120 clicks a day – for browsers not buyers.
I was going to can PPC completely then came up with a really good way of using Google Adwords. I cut costs by 80% - and increased conversions by 20% |
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Whether you are the official wedding photographer or just a family member or friend taking pictures remember that there is far more to the occasion than getting some good formal or posed pictures. The story book should reflect the spirit of the occasion. |
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One effect of the advances in software is that all of us have become creative designers. Maybe we are not good as the pros – but with the wealth of templates etc we can produce well balanced and well laid out documents.
So how do we stand out from the crowd, in an ever increasingly competitive market? The quality of printed documents must be one way. Here are some suggestions using the products from opusalbums.com – documents you can design and print yourself with limited investment. |
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 OCTOPUS blog: Gallery Prints and prints made from fine art or historic photos can be an amazing form of personal expression.
- They can be printed in any format from a 6x4”/A6 postcard up to a 60” wide mounted picture.
- They can be mounted or bound in an album.
- And the original can be FREE
Produce them on Innova Paper from OPUSalbums.com |
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Make a Wedding into a Story |
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I just wanted to tell you how pleased I am with Essentia FotoArt. I have put a wedding album together for my partner's daughter as a trial - 300 images into 110 pages. Lovely.
I had been using Photoshop for putting together photobooks, from holidays, birthdays, etc, and, in general, it was taking about 10 pages an hour. |
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It's holiday time - and you will be taking a lot of pictures. These pictures are cherished memories.
We have three economically priced albums, using our very popular and high quality Olmec double sided gloss paper. - Pics Book Jr with its unique invisble staple binding, Flexalbum - hard covers and no limit on the number of pages - and the very economical Print&Bind. All of these have special 2009 vacation deals. |
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If you make Photobooks of topics of interest, people will read and buy them. With Photobooks you can offer download versions - but people really want the hard copy. But where do you find good photos free? You can get excellent topical pictuest legally and honestly with public domain information. Or you can supplement your own work with free sources, especially if you are making photobooks.
This blog looks at the various sources - from the US Government and elsewhere. |
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List of Standard Photo Paper Sizes - R Sizez, 7x5, 10x8 etc from OPUSalbums.com |
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Customer Letter - We're back from Auystralia full of Ideas |
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UPS and Parcelforce are OK - DHL has let us down. Booked by Interparcel, Parcel2Go, Parcel2Ship |
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Happy Christmas and Best Wishes for 2010 |
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Daniel Roberts presents his Christmas Message to customers and friends. |
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January 2010 Digital Photo Paper Sale - Olmec, Innova paper from OPUSalbums.com |
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 But what struck me about the cards:
1 The hand made cards were natty,
2 The wordy, hand drawn ones were amusing
3 The photographic ones were utterly boring.
And of course none of them carried the message “This is from me to you”
So much mord can be done with the 'Photo paper how you like it programme' |
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