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Before you get engrossed with Black Friday and all the sales and bargains, finalize your plans for this years photo greeting card. Talk to your photo buddies and schedule for one of them to come take your family picture.
No photo buddies? Lots of local photographers have special deals this time of year to take a [...]

One of the newest entries into the personal printer market is the Epson Picturemate Dash. It’s another $99 portable printer from Epson, a proven product line for them. The Picturemates have always gotten great reviews and the Dash is no exception.
I guess they picked the name because of the builtin handle and addon battery. You [...]

The October/November issue of After Capture magazine has an article on a great product. QuickMats3 is a set of Photoshop templates that create realistic looking single or double mats for your photos.
You can create custom sized mats, use the included number and letter cutouts, and even create digital mats with multiple openings (up to 40!). [...]

This month’s guest speaker at our photo club was Jeff Johnson, a Colorado photographer who does a lot of nature photography. You can find Jeff’s work online at his Soul Images Gallery website.
One of the key things he stressed during his presentation was his goal as a photographer: Create images that evoke an emotional response [...]

Last week there was a post about the new Vintage themed photo books from MyPublisher. If you’ve decided to take Grandma’s old photo album and make a new photo book, you’ll need to scan all those old pictures. Here’s some hints and suggestions to help ensure your success.
Be careful with the old album - The [...]

A few months ago Mpix jumped on the photo book bandwagon. Their software is a whopping 65 meg download, but they give you a lot of flexibility in designing your book and each page.
They have both soft and hard cover books in a few different sizes. Hard cover books are available in 5×5, 10×10 and [...]