Online Digital Photographic Processing

Cambridge Company FotoInsight Ltd is the best online photo print service in Germany according to Europe’s largest consumer advice magazine “test”.  

Cambridge. 26 Oct 2012. - Europe’s largest consumer test and advice magazine “test”, issued by the product testing foundation “Stiftung Warentest” has tested glossy photo calendars from 12 online photographic print services in its October 2012 edition and FotoInsight Ltd of Cambridge came out on top.

FotoInsight’s Managing Director Klaas Brumann states: “FotoInsight’s export sales have consistently risen from 70% in 2008 and 2009 to 83% of revenues the current year. Our entire growths is due to increased sales to the more dynamic economies in Scandinavia and in the Eurozone.”

FotoInsight Ltd prints with CEWE COLOR AG in Germany and CEWE COLOR LTD in the UK. Generally photo services printing with CEWE COLOR were recognised by the testing foundation to offer a bigger choice and a higher and more consistent print quality than other photo services tested [source: www.test.de/Fotokalender-Zwoelf-Fotodienste-im-Test-4446633-0/].

Mr Brumann adds: “The photo printing business is very sensitive to the consumer’s willingness to holiday and spend. It lags the economic cycle by about six months. FotoInsight is unable to rely on its UK and Irish business alone, needing growth in markets where the economy is still growing. Companies, regardless of their size, should treat the Common Market as what it says in its name. Though this may require hiring staff able to speak other European languages, which the British school system is increasingly failing to provide.”

Export driven businesses tend to be run by more flexible business people, which often allows them to thrive in recessions; but Brumann warns: “Only try to sell in Europe if your quality is top-notch.”  

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FotoInsight offers British and European consumers easy to use, online photographic printing services and innovative photo print products like photo books, photographic paper albums, personalised Advent calendars, individual calendar prints and many photo gift ideas.

 

Cologne, 21/09/2010. - To provide space where the favourite photographs can shine, photo book services like FotoInsight are constantly improving their software and their range. The latest FotoInsight Designer software upgrade incorporates many suggestions from a SirValuse Usability study and features apart from an enhanced navigation many new tools.

Until recently, when designing a CEWE PHOTO BOOK, it could only be ordered in the same size. The new FotoInsight Designer can now convert CEWE PHOTO BOOK layouts from one size into another of the same shape. For example, from a square Photo Book XL in size 12" x 12" (30 x 30 cm), users can now get a smaller square size 8" x 8" (20 x 20 cm) or a larger square size 16" x 16" (40 x 40 cm), adjusted automatically based on the original layout. The same can be done to photo books in portrait or panorama format.

The photo book editor in the new FotoInsight Designer software upgrade now saves (caches) changes automatically, so that progress made can't get lost during the design process. That is important, as photo books are getting ever larger and bigger. The upgrade features the large CEWE PHOTO BOOK XXL Panorama (42 x 30 cm) with a padded cover in real leather. For a stronger bind the large panorama pages are specially folded into the cover bind.

Editing Assistant now recognizes human faces

The software upgrade will be shown at Photokina and will be launched as a free download from October 2010. Its Layout Assistant has been improved and can now recognise faces. That way the automatic layout assistant can now avoid covering faces on photographs. Users will also be able to create custom CEWE PHOTO BOOK Layout-Styles, for the Assistant to use when creating automatic photo book layouts.

New photographic calendars, new features

For demanding photographers wanting to create large calendars FotoInsight is now adding the size A3 photo calendar also in panorama format. Photo calendars on real photographic paper can also be designed in FotoInsight Designer v.4.6. Real photographic paper developed in a professional photo lab guarantees brilliant colours and superior durability.

The colour schemes of the application's calendar templates received a make-over and the application can now also display bank holidays in photo calendars. 

More photo gifts

The software upgrade also features the option to choose the pages in spiral-bound photo cover note pads (A5 and A4) with the option of lined or graph paper. In general FotoInsight is increasing the user's choice. For example it is now possible to give each greeting card in a set of greeting cards an individual design.

The Managing Director of FotoInsight Klaas Brumann comments: "The new photo calendars on photographic paper and the new CEWE PHOTO BOOK XXL Panorama provide an impressive environment to preserve the favourite pictures from holidays and events in shiny quality. Books can be accessed at any time. Unlike videos and images on digital media there will never be compatibility problems with future digital standards. With your FotoInsight Photo Book simply turn the pages and enjoy, now and in a hundred years."