These new 4×4″ mini accordion books are a response to wedding photographer’s requests for a purse-sized book with the same square format as their albums.

These mini books make a great lagniappe for your brides.

Each book comes with 5 panels on each side for a total of 10 4×4″ full bleed panels. Covers can be standard blue, red, caramel or black leatherette, or can be customized with your image or artwork.

4×4″ mini accordion photo books are $18 for two with standard cover, or $24 for 2 with custom cover.

If you’re having trouble picking the 5-8 best keywords for your website, take advantage of Google’s auto-complete feature.

How does auto-complete work? As you type each letter into the search box on the www.google.com homepage, Google sifts through millions of other online searches to “guess” what you are looking for. The more letters you type, the better Google gets at guessing. Since most people hate to type, they click the terms on the screen, and over time the top searches get more popular.

These “top searches” can be used to help you verify the best keywords or 2-3 word keyword phrases.

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The Summit is the newest album available from JD. It is available in two unique sizes: 20×10″ and 12×6″. The Summit uniquely showcases professional square prints in a vertical album – nothing you’re customers can get at a discount store photo lab!

Features:

• Vertical opening to square format guarantees WOW from your clients. When opened the albums display a square image of 20×20″ or 12×12″. this means that you can display panoramic or square page designs with this album.

• Deluxe Presentation Case – the 20×10″ size comes in a black briefcase for transportation, and the 12×6″ album comes in a deluxe leather-wrapped presentation box. Both have fabric liners to protect the cover material.

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Our new offset folded greeting cards have a fresh, contemporary design that can be used for graduations, holidays, or for marketing materials.

What makes these cards so interesting is the offset fold that shows a “sneak peak” of the inside page design. This encourages the person holding the card to open it and see what is inside.

The 1/2″ vertical view created by the offset fold creates some interesting design options. It could be used as a continuation of the background art on the inside page, it could be a contrasting design element (see sample) or for a marketing card it could even display a vertical teaser text like “Learn more…”

The cards are 4×8″ folded, come with envelopes, and are available now in ROES in the press-printed products catalog.

Brad Hawks will present a “Creating the Image” workshop on March 14, 2011 at 7pm sponsored by the Mid-Michigan Professional Photographer’s Association. The program is free to MMPPA and DPPA members.

During the 3-hour program, Brad will show step-by-step examples for creating the effects that has made his senior portrait work so popular. This includes the latest image effects in Photoshop, Nix, Alien Skin, AutoFX and Painter.

He will also be giving away $1,000 free software to folks attending the workshop.

Details:
5:30pm: Dinner at The Frankenmuth Brewery, 425 S. Main Street Frankenmuth
6:30pm: Registration
7:00pm: Program at Rummel Studios, 130 W. Tuscola, Frankenmuth

For more information, contact Tina Timmons at tina@mich1.net or visit the Mid-Michigan PPA website.

We occasionally see images coming off the digital printing presses with cropping problems. If you grew up using film, you remember that everything was printed out to the edge.

However, images printed on digital presses (photo books, holiday cards, etc) are different. Friction rollers have to grab a bit of the edge of each piece of paper to pull it through the machine. To keep the rollers from gumming up, the edges don’t get printed. This means that every piece of paper that goes through the printer has a bit of white border on all four edges. To create a full-bleed print, we trim off these edges.

To account for trimming, here are three tips you should know:

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JD Photo Imaging will be at the WPPI Expo in Las Vegas from February 21 – 23 in booth #1034.

In addition to showcasing our newest products, JD will give away several valuable prizes at the show. To register, simply stop by the booth.

In addition, we have 5 free passes to the WPPI Expo to give to away to our customers. If you plan to attend the Expo, email Molly Hicks at molly@jdlab.com for more information.

We look forward to seeing you at the show!