Online Digital Photographic Processing

Online photo processing, where real photographic paper is used for prints, is nowadays as popular as traditional photo labs used be in the 1990's. The routes to the lab are becoming increasingly varied and flexible. Apart from the existing routes via the  Internet using Windows PC, Mac or Linux software, a Point of Sale Terminal or online, ECCE TERRAM is now introducing its first "Photo2lab Client for iPhone" at the PMA 2008 in Las Vegas.

Oldenburg, Germany and Las Vegas, NV. January, 29th, 2008. -- ECCE TERRAM has already announced new versions of its offline software clients and its middleware for the PMA 2008 in Las Vegas, and communicated its expansion to New Zealand and Australia. Today the internet solutions specialist is presenting a new global highlight.



During summer 2007 Apple's launch of a completely new smartphone, called the iphone received much public attention. With 4 million units sold during the first 200 days it is the most successful mobile phone launch.  Steve Jobs, the legendary Apple boss announced a software developer's kit last October for third party applications.


Fast Mover

This gave ECCE TERRAM the starting shot for the development of a photo print order client for the iPhone. ECCE TERRAM CEO Frank Simon states: "We think that thanks to the intuitive user interface and the iPhone's Multi Touch Display this is the first attractive and user-friendly mobile phone photo print application that will be loved by its users."





A Trend Setting Product

Right from the onset it was clear that the iPhone users define which application can be sensibly marketed. Spontaneous snaps from the holidays, a party, on concerts or a snapshot of something interesting on the road. The moment describes the motive and shows why the software developer has such faith in its new iPhone application. "The iPhone is the ideal tool to help establish photographic products as part of modern, digital life." says Frank Simon, CEO.





Special Services for Production and  Delivery

The iPhone's photo printing range will kick off with a mini-photobook (10x15cm, 16 pages) and a post card service. The user selects photos, creates a postcard with text and images in the editing tool, moves the images with one finger, rotates and zooms pictures with two fingers and does a double click to browse. The application can pick the postcard's recipients postal address straight from the contact list.



ECCE TERRAM's "Photo2lab" services production partners print the post cards and post them directly to the recipient - or the  photo book to the buyer or to a delivery address for a present.



ECCE TERRAM expects to present the final version shortly after Apple publishes its SDK (Software Development Kit). Further information regarding ECCE TERRAM at the PMA can be found at www.iphone2home.net .



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About ECCE TERRAM

ECCE TERRAM was founded in Oldenburg by Frank Simon in 1996. Its web applications are used in the photo processing industry and beyond by blue chips like chip maker Infineon or German publishers like “Die Zeit” or “Gelbe Seiten” (German Yellow Pages). Since 2001 ECCE TERRAM is owned by the ECCE TERRAM Holding GmbH and the Pilet International S.A..

Contact

ECCE TERRAM Internet Services GmbH

An der grossen Wisch 36

D-26133 Oldenburg, Germany

Tel:   +49 441 500 120

Fax:   +49 441 500 1229

http://www.ecce-terram.com/ 

Email: pr (at) ecce-terram.de

Ex Astris Scientia

Press Contact:

IITM is a specialist agency and will be delighted to arrange interviews. IITM will be pleased to provide an image, NFR versions, sample photo book for review as well as background information.

International IT Marketing Limited

Catalina Martínez, Head of Communication.

Email: pr (at) IITM.info

Tel. +1 202 4703242



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Specialist developer ECCE TERRAM is showing at this year’s PMA how setting up a digital photo processing service in store or online is becoming easier with open software modules. ECCE TERRAM is also celebrating a new mile stone with 132 million photo prints being ordered through its middleware software components. These solutions help to improve photo services' independence and negotiation power and provide access to a range of components to cover varying requirements.

Oldenburg Germany and Las Vegas, NV. January 22nd, 2008 – Online photo services converting digital images into traditional photographic paper prints are reaching the volumes of traditional photo labs in the 1990’s. Digital photo processing is a growth industry, but only a few developers have the experience and depth to create complete 'end user to photo lab' software solutions. The specialist Internet software developer ECCE TERRAM will be presenting the latest 'off the shelf', modular software solutions for online photo services, web portals, photo labs and purchasing associations at the international PMA exhibition in Las Vegas in January 2008, including client software and middleware releases currently in preparation.

 

Photo Lab Software Solutions

Together the Photo Lab Software processing components build flexible, state-of-the-art solutions. These range from order processing using online stores, point-of-sale terminals and offline software clients for Windows, Macintosh and Linux using an open protocol connecting to any photo lab or printer. The PTS middleware processes the orders using a central user database, which allows splitting orders to cover production requirements (e.g. mixed orders for standard prints, posters and gift items). Lab plug-ins built the third layer in ECCE TERRAM’s ‘Photo2Lab’ solution. The lab plug-ins currently support for example DPL, Allcop, ORWO, CeWeColor, DWM and Frontline. Increasingly specialists from the growing sector of photo book, calendar and gift item printing, like Ifuse, Snapmania are being supported by ECCE TERRAM.

ECCE adds ICC Profiles to its Middleware

At PMA ECCE Terram is adding ICC Profiles to its Middleware as an option for photo labs catering for professional photographers. These solutions allow to indicate image optimization for individual image files and make re-ordering prints easier. In addition, the ECCE Photo Suite offline client will  integrate the HDX4 Photo Manager. It serves to optimise the pictures per mouse click before uploading them to the Internet, in order to bring out the best of the photographs. This is important because large photo labs find it increasingly costly to correct or optimise images in photo albums and calendars. The Managing Director of the developer ECCE TERRAM, Frank Simon states: "Among our customers are ORWO, Farbglanz Imaging, Pixelnet, Focus, TV Spielfilm, Kodak and many more. We are proud that in the past year 132 million image prints have been processed through the installed base of ECCE middleware solutions."

 

ECCE Photo Suite adds Photo Book and Calendar Editor Modules at PMA

ECCE TERRAM created the new generation of offline photo ordering clients (Windows, MacOS and Linux) with a modular structure. New modules for photo book and calendar design are being released during the PMA Trade Fair. A new postcard module which handles franking and mailing directly to the cards recipient will also be revealed during the PMA. The applications are brandable through graphics, logos and colors and are used by labs and services of different sizes, from large central labs like ORWO and DPL, book and gift printers to mini labs. Catering for European and international businesses ECCE TERRAM’s applications are easy to localize and are available in several European languages.

 

Multi Lingual Solutions with Source Code License

With Photo2Lab's ready made solutions, any store or website can become an independent online photo service. ECCE TERRAM founder Frank Simon points out: “ECCE TERRAM endeavors with Photo2Lab software to allow photo services to allocate production orders, moving the control over the process from the large central labs back to the photo service. When you start your photo service make sure that you own your customer data and route to lab. ECCE Terram licensing model is unique in offering a source code license option.”

 

ECCE TERRAM practices these values with its solutions shown at PMA Booth No.:   K 191-1 from January 31st to February 2nd, 208.

 

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Publishing permission granted; 706  words. Copy or link appreciated.

Website: http://www.ecce-terram.com/

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About ECCE TERRAM

ECCE TERRAM was founded in Oldenburg by Frank Simon in 1996. Its web applications are used in the photo processing industry and beyond by blue chips like chip maker Infineon or German publishers like “Die Zeit” or “Gelbe Seiten” (German Yellow Pages). Since 2001 ECCE TERRAM is owned by the ECCE TERRAM Holding GmbH and the Pilet International S.A..

Contact

ECCE TERRAM Internet Services GmbH

An der grossen Wisch 36

D-26133 Oldenburg, Germany

Tel:   +49 441 500 120

Fax:   +49 441 500 1229

http://www.ecce-terram.com/ 

Email: pr (at) ecce-terram.de

Ex Astris Scientia

Press Contact:

IITM is a specialist agency and will be delighted to arrange interviews. IITM will be pleased to provide an image, NFR versions for review and background information.

International IT Marketing Limited

Catalina Martínez, Head of Communication.

Email: pr (at) IITM.info

Tel. +1 202 4703242



Photo Industry Blog

International IT Marketing is the multi lingual international communications agency for (examples):

FotoInsight UK –Digital photo printing, canvas and poster printing, photo book, photo gifts

Italia -Stampa foto digitali online,album fotografici,foto regali, calendario, libri fotografici

FotoInsight France - Tirage de cadeaux photo, calendrier, poster, livre photos

Europe & Ireland - digital photo processing, photobooks, photographic gifts

The National Geographic Guide to Digital Photography by greenstreet software

printing-1 design photo books, photo album print, Mac photobook software


printing-1 Fotobücher designen, Fotoalbum druck, Mac Fotobuch software

Professor Teaches Vista™ Ultimate with greenstreet software

VSO Image Resizer - the handy free compression tool

Labels: ECCE TERRAM, Middleware, photo lab software, photo processing solutions, photo2lab, TRON, Web 2

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, 16 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. http://fotoinsight.co.uk/gifts  

• Where Cupid’s arrow strikes there is a story to be told with a photo album or a printed hardcover CeWe Photo Book. 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. Photobooks in a full colour and fully editable cover start from £14.99 for 26 pages in colour (plus p&p). For Photo Book see http://fotoinsight.co.uk/book

• FotoInsight brings a new meaning to staying at home on Valentine’s Day: to cuddle up with the loved one and a cuddly teddy bear. Adding special effects or text to a digital photograph printed on the teddy bear’s shirt makes it a very personal Valentine’s present: http://fotoinsight.co.uk/gifts

• In lieu of store-bought sentiments featuring cartoon characters, own Valentine’s Day cards with FotoInsight photo Greeting Cards are another way to say “I love you!”. Photographic greeting cards can be personalised with a romantic poem or a few simple words straight from the heart: http://fotoinsight.co.uk/gifts. For free photo eCards, please visit http://FotoInsight.co.uk/ecards

• An image of a loved one in large format print? The Photo canvas print mounted onto a wooden frame look impressive and are ready to hang on the wall. Photo canvas prints are available in different sizes from 20 x 30 cm (about A4 at £24.99 +p&p) and up to 60x80 cm: http://fotoinsight.co.uk/canvas/

• Showing love 365 days this year. Daily reminders of love are easy with a photo calendar featuring own digital pictures. FotoInsight photographic calendars can start any month of the year. A hanging wall calendar offers room to jot down romantic dinner dates; photo calendars are easy to make and start from £9.99. For information on photographic calendars http://fotoinsight.co.uk/calendar/  

• Cups full of cheers: A Valentine’s classic is the set of two photo mugs: http://fotoinsight.co.uk/gifts/  

Convenience and flexibility

FotoInsight offers an independent online photo service, fully flexible to be used with images from any digital camera or mobile phone and using PC, MacOS or Linux. According to FotoInsight’s management the online service offers superior quality at lower costs when compared to inkjet printing. From Cambridge, Mr Brumann comments: “Photographic memories must never fade. Our technology is smarter, providing long lasting photographic gifts in superior quality.”

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Homepage: http://fotoinsight.co.uk/gifts  

Information about FotoInsight Ltd

FotoInsight Ltd was founded in 2003 in Cambridge and runs an easy to use digital photo processing service, offering an extensive array of award-winning photographic print and gift items as well as the CeWe Photo books, photo posters, photographic calendars and photos on canvas printing. Customers benefit from patented development processes and the experience of Europe’s largest independent photo lab with an installed capacity of 18 million prints per day. Photos ordered through http://fotoinsight.co.uk are developed in one of 16 strategically located, state of the art photo labs with an output of over 3 billion prints per year.

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Photo Gifts Ireland & Europe

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Contact information

FotoInsight Ltd.,

Catalina Martínez, Head of Communication

Cambridge, CB4 1ZP, UK

Skype fotoinside

Tel. +44 8700 114911

Fax. +44 8715 601675

pr (at) fotoinsight.co.uk 

Labels: new products, panorama photograph printing, personalised gifts, photo mugs and books from own digital images, photographic print, photographic gift items

Online photo services converting digital images into traditional photographic paper prints are reaching the volumes of traditional photo labs in the 1990’s. Digital photo processing is a growth industry, but only a few developers have the experience and depth to create complete 'end user to photo lab' software solutions. The specialist Internet software developer ECCE TERRAM will be presenting the latest 'off the shelf', modular software solutions for online photo services, web portals, photo labs and purchasing associations at the international PMA exhibition in Las Vegas in January 2008, including client software and middleware releases currently in preparation.

 

Photo2Lab

ECCE TERRAM is announcing the launch of its Photo2Lab solutions in New Zealand (April 2008) and Australia (May 2008) with lab partners and dedicated local server in. The ECCE TERRAM Photo2Lab solution is unique in allowing photo services to receive and allocate print orders to their own photo printers, to third party central labs, to photo gift specialists or to channel orders on a case by case basis. Photo processing web solutions from large central labs have been developed for them to create an unbreakable tie between shops or portals and the supplying photo lab. Large central labs are building a dominant position, weakening smaller photo service’s negotiation power. ECCE TERRAM’s Photo2Lab is ready to plug into different photo labs, guaranteeing photo stores and web portals independence from dominant labs. With solutions developed using Web 2.0 technologies like SOAP, WSDL, Ajax etc. ECCE TERRAM offers a diverse range of components for photo portals, including support for ICC Profiles for professional color management demands.

 

Photo Lab Software Solutions

Together the Photo Lab software processing components build flexible, state-of-the-art solutions. These range from order processing using online stores, point-of-sale terminals and offline software clients for Windows, Macintosh and Linux using an open protocol connecting to any photo lab or printer. The DPS middleware processes the orders using a central user database, which allows splitting orders to cover production requirements (e.g. mixed orders for standard prints, posters and gift items). Lab plug-ins built the third layer in ECCE TERRAM’s ‘Photo2Lab’ solution. The lab plug-ins currently support for example DPL, Allcop, ORWO, CEWE Color, DWM and Frontline. Increasingly specialists from the growing sector of photo book, calendar and gift item printing, like Ifuse, Snapmania are being supported by ECCE TERRAM.



ECCE adds ICC Profiles to its Middleware

At PMA ECCE Terram is adding ICC Profiles to its Middleware as an option for photo labs catering for professional photographers. These solutions allow to indicate image optimization for individual image files and make re-ordering prints easier. In addition, the ECCE Photo Suite offline client will  integrate the HDX4 Photo Manager. It serves to optimise the pictures per mouse click before uploading them to the Internet, in order to bring out the best of the photographs. This is important because large photo labs find it increasingly costly to correct or optimise images in photo albums and calendars. The Managing Director of the developer ECCE TERRAM, Frank Simon states: "Among our customers are ORWO, Farbglanz Imaging, Pixelnet, Focus, TV Spielfilm, Kodak and many more. We are proud that in the past year 132 million image prints have been processed through the installed base of ECCE middleware solutions."


ECCE Photo Suite adds Photo Book and Calendar Editor Modules at PMA


ECCE TERRAM created the new generation of offline photo ordering clients (Windows, MacOS and Linux) with a modular structure. New modules for photo book and calendar design are being released during the PMA Trade Fair. A new postcard module which handles franking and mailing directly to the cards recipient will also be revealed during the PMA. The applications are brandable through graphics, logos and colors and are used by labs and services of different sizes, from large central labs like ORWO and DPL, book and gift printers to mini labs. Catering for European and international business ECCE TERRAM’s applications are easy to localize and are available in several European languages.

ECCE TERRAM practices these values with its solutions shown at PMA Booth No.:   K 191-1 from January 31st to February 2nd, 208.




 

About ECCE TERRAM

ECCE TERRAM was founded in Oldenburg by Frank Simon in 1996. Its web applications are used in the photo processing industry and beyond by blue chips like chip maker Infineon or German publishers like “Die Zeit” or “Gelbe Seiten” (German Yellow Pages). Since 2001 ECCE TERRAM is owned by the ECCE TERRAM Holding GmbH and the Pilet International S.A..

 

Contact

ECCE TERRAM Internet Services GmbH
An der grossen Wisch 36
D-26133 Oldenburg, Germany

Tel:   +49 441 500 120
Fax:   +49 441 500 1229
http://www.ecce-terram.com/
Email: pr (at) ecce-terram.de

Ex Astris Scientia


Press Contact:

IITM is a specialist agency and will be delighted to arrange interviews. IITM will be pleased to provide an image, NFR versions for review and background information.

IITM LLP
Washington, USA
Email: pr (at) IITM.info
Tel. +1 202 4703242

Labels: ECCE TERRAM, hosting, internet, ordering software, photo gifts, photo2lab, photographic lab

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."


Photo2lab Software Suite on the PMA in Las Vegas

Among the companies having licensed the HDX4 Photo SDK is the German company ECCE TERRAM Internet Services. Photo2lab Software Suite has been especially developed for digital photo services, which want to digitise all procedures from the order to printing in the laboratory.

Part of this suite is the eccePhoto Offline-Client, which enables the customer to select his own pictures that are to be ordered as prints or to be used as fun products or for the creation of photo albums or calendars. Integrated into the Offline-Client is the HDX4 Photo Manager. It serves to optimise the pictures per mouse click before uploading them to the Internet, in order to bring out the best of the photographs. This is important because large photo laboratories cannot carry out later modifications of photo albums and calendars – in contrast to prints – without large effort. The Managing Director of the developer ECCE TERRAM, Frank Simon states: "Among our customers are ORWO, Farbglanz Imaging, Pixelnet, Focus, TV Spielfilm, Kodak and many more."

ECCE TERRAM Internet Services presents its Photo2lab Software Suite with the integrated HDX4 Photo Manager on the worldwide most important photo trade fair PMA, which takes place in Las Vegas from 31 January to 2 February 2008. It can be found on stand K191-1 (ECCE TERRAM GmbH, LVCC, 2nd floor).

Homepage HDX4: http://www.hdx4.com

Homepage ECCE TERRAM: http://www.ecce-terram.com

 
 
About HDX4 GmbH:

HDX4 GmbH was founded in 2001 and has its headquarters in Dortmund, Germany. The medium-sized company mainly deals with the development of new picture-and video optimization, which considerably increases the quality of the source material by means of a self-developed technique. Via SDKs these functions can be taken over to any Multimedia-Software. HDX4 GmbH also offers all-encompassing support for a veritable cornucopia of video codecs, including (but by no means limited to) MPEG 1/2/4 (of course, the latter in the older H.263 as well as the newest H.264/AVC styles), Flash and MJPEG. The technology covers a range of audio formats, like AAC-LC, AAC-HE, ADPCM, AMR-NB and G.726, and an arsenal of container formats, such as 3GP/3GPP, AVI, MP4 and ASF. Detailed information can be found at www.hdx4.com.


Information about the manufacturer

Mr. Markus Unger (Press relations officer)

HDX4 GmbH, Essener Str. 20, 44139 Dortmund, Germany

E-Mail: info@hdx4.com, Web: www.hdx4.com

Phone: +49 (0)1805 / 36435626

Fax: +49 (0) 700 / 36435626


Press Contact:

IITM is a specialist agency and will be delighted to arrange interviews. IITM will be pleased to provide an image, NFR versions for review and background information.

IITM LLP
Washington
Email: pr (at) IITM.info
Tel. +1 202 4703242

Labels: calendar photo, HDX4, processing, SDK