You can now order 2 flat cards, 2 designer cards, or 2 folded greeting cards with envelopes and your custom images for only $2 in ROES. No shipping or minimum order fees. Pearl, linen, standard paper and standard paper with coating are all available at the same $2 price.

These new studio samples will make it even easier to get holiday card orders from your clients.

Instead of showing clients generic card designs, you can show them a card you’ve customized with their image. Keep one card as a studio sample, and share the other one with your client.

To place your 2-card order in ROES, create a card as you would normally, then select one of the “2 Card Sample” options. The cards will be printed at the lab, and sent to you via first-class mail. No shipping or minimum order fees apply.

Note that you can combine several 2-card sets for different customers into a single order, or you can print different samples for the same client.

Betsy Finn, one of our young and talented clients, will give a talk entitled “Getting Technology to Work for You” at the Mid-Michigan Professional Photographer’s Association meeting on Monday, November 14, 2011 at 7pm. For more information, visit their website or contact Tina Timmons at tina@mich1.net.

Betsy is known locally and nationally as both a gifted speaker and a photographer who has combined her love of photography with her business and marketing sense, especially as it relates to technology and online marketing. She generously shares this information with other photographers on her LearnWithBetsy.com blog.

Prior to founding Betsy’s Photography, Betsy studied at Michigan State University and Hope College, where she earned a B.A. in Business Management and Photography. She has continued to further her knowledge through attending continuing education seminars and conferences offered by the Professional Photographers of America (PPA) and the Detroit Professional Photographers Association (DPPA). In 2010, she received a Photographic Craftsman degree from PPA.

Just in time for the holidays! Our new Designer Cards are perfect for holiday, seniors, new birth or wedding announcements. You can leave the back side plain, use a pattern, or create your own text image in Photoshop to provide a holiday greeting or directions to an event.

Why offer Designer cards? Simply because they get noticed! These 5×7″ cards are sure to be stuck to a refrigerator as an event reminder, or they will stand out when placed along side other holiday cards.

Designer cards are available in sets of 24 cards with envelopes. Each set is $28.50 for standard paper. Coating, pearl or linen paper is $3.50 extra per set.

Designer cards are available in ROES under Press Printed > Cards > Double Sided.

Our new photo coasters are a great add-on sale for family or baby photographers.

These heavy duty reusable 3.75″ square coasters come in groups of 4 – you can use the same image or different images on all 4. A display stand is available for an additional charge.

You can order the coasters in ROES from the School Pick-A-Pack catalog. They are available under Specialty Items > Coasters.

Looking for something unique to offer your clients this holiday season? 

Our new Fancy Frame Statuettes are getting rave reviews everywhere we show them. We’re so confident you’ll love them, we’re offering free studio samples to show your clients.

These high-quality keepsakes are printed on Kodak paper, then permanently affixed to a heavy acrylic and contour cut by hand. Choose from 5×7″, 8×10″ or 11×14″ sizes, each ready to hang on a wall or use with a photo stand. Download our Fancy Frame templates in Photoshop PSD file formats or you can make your own using these templates as a guide. Just make sure that the cut line is visible so they can be hand-cut properly.

For sports, school and dance photographers, our classic 5×7″ and 8×10″ statuettes are a great gift idea too. Each statuette is hand-cut, then mounted on a glossy black acrylic base.

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How can you attract enough business? The solution can be found if you can fill in the blanks of these two sentences:

1. “I’m the #1 photographer of choice in _______.
2. This is because I’m the only photographer to have ______.”

Think about it. If you can’t fill in the blanks, who can? The people you’re trying to attract are looking for the #1 photographer.

To help you answer these questions, Kirk Russell will present an online rally entitled, “Does this Make My Business Look Big?” from 2-3:30pm on Monday, September 26th. The cost for this 90 minute live online Rally is $99.

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The Sept. 12, 2011 Not Even If You Beg online Rally was a huge success. For those of you who missed it, or for attendees who wish to watch it again or pass it on to colleagues, the on-demand Rally is available as a downloadable video. You must register (free) at JD’s 3Lenses.com portal to view the video.

Kirk explained why not enough people choose you, and what you can do about it. Think your photography is great? Through a series of visual exercises, he shows you why in today’s market, even great photography isn’t enough to attract customers.

The video is definitely worth your time.

Michael Timmons will teach you how to enhance your images on Monday, Sept. 26 from 10am until 4pm in the JD training center. The program is sponsored by the Professional Photographers of Michigan and JD Photo Imaging.

Ever wondered how to use Nik Software to enhance your images? How about taking your after capture skills to the next level? What about a work alternative to HDR that will give you a more photo realistic look using jpegs?

During this day long program, Michael will share with you all of his tips and tricks to create stunning, award winning images. This day will be devoted to exploring the Nik software interface and unleashing the power that lies within. Both color and black and white workflow will be discussed as well as image enhancement using Topaz Adjust and Lucis Art software.

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Kirk Russell will present “Not Even if You Beg“, the first of a series of online rallies to help motivate professional photographers energize their business on Monday, September 12, 2011 at 2pm. JD customers can click here to register.

The first rally is a FREE fat-trimmed, bare-bone, pull-no-punches webinar that will quickly explain why not enough people choose you and what you can do about it.

Says Kirk, “For most photographers, life would be great if they would just attract enough people from month-to-month, and year-to-year.”

This 20 minute webinar will quickly and directly explain:

1. Why people are more price sensitive
2. Why you don’t have to worry about the competition
3. Why you don’t have to lower prices to attract enough business
4. The best solutions to 1, 2, and 3

Last season’s series of Kirk Russell’s marketing webinars sponsored by JD were very popular. Customers can still watch them online today.

Jeffery Corns will hold a workshop on Commercial Photography for the professional photographer on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 from 7-9pm at Owens Community College Center for Performing Arts, Room 223 in Toledo, OH (map). The workshop will be held by the Professional Photographers of Northwest Ohio and is sponsored by JD Photo Imaging.

Jeff is a Master Photographer and a Certified Professional Photographer. He was twice named Commercial Photographer of the Year by the Professional Photographers of Michigan. In 1995 Jeff was named Photographer of the Year by the Professional Photographers of Detroit. His work has received both Kodak Gallery Awards and Fuji Masterpiece Awards. View his work online here.