04 June 2008
TIPA 2008 award winning CEWE Photobook Software Launched in Spain and Italy
The Cambridge based Internet photo service is expanding its successful photo book range with software in Spanish and Italian. FotoInsight is outperforming the photo finishing market through product and service innovation as well as its aggressive international expansion.
Today, FotoInsight of Cambridge launched the award winning CEWE Photobook service in Italy, just one month after its successful launch in Spain. The expansion of the popular photo book concept is helped by winning this year's TIPA (Technical Image Press Association) best photo service award. TIPA voted the CEWE Photobooks at the self-titled the European ‘Oscar’ of the Photo and Imaging Industry, as the leading product in its hotly contested category, which has lend a new dynamism to the photo printing industry and offers the consumer an attractive option to preserve photographic memories.
The TIPA judges state “With its photobook concept, CEWE offers a complete solution for creating and ordering high quality photobooks across Europe. Digital photos can be combined with backgrounds, text and page design, and the photo book software is free of charge and offers intuitive handling ...”.
The FotoInsight Designer software for the CEWE photo book is intuitive and does not require specialist knowledge, making photo book design accesible across different levels of experience and languages . According to the vendor, the Layout Assistant in its “FotoInsight Designer” CEWE photobook software designs a coffee table style book with hundreds of images in under three minutes. Users with time and patience may enjoy designing their own printed photo album page by page or simply refine the Layout Assistant’s design with texts and repositioning the images.
FotoInsight offers a range of 94 different photo book formats counted by cover, size and number of pages. Its portfolio ranges from a pocket size photo booklet (from £5.99 plus p&p) through bound books in square format (8”x8” from £9.99) or A4 to the new XL photo books (12”x12”). All photobooks (square, A4 and XL) from FotoInsight are available with very durable channel bind in a linen cover or in a soft or hardcover where cover and spine can be edited freely with photos and text. All photo books are available in different sizes, from 26 to 98 pages (increasing in eight page steps).
Convenient and flexible
The creative freedom provided by the new FotoInsight Designer Software is not limited to photo books, but the same tools can be used for digital photo calendar design with a number of different sizes and templates and a virtually unlimited number of images per page, image layers, free positioning and flexible text tools. FotoInsight’s Managing Director Klaas Brumann states: “We launched the free Spanish photobook software a month ago and hundreds of photo books have already been created and printed through our Spanish service. We expect to help thousands of Italians to preserve their photographic memories in pristine colours, just like we do for our British customers.”
The creative freedom provided by the new FotoInsight Designer Software is not limited to photo books, but the same tools can be used for digital photo calendar design with a number of different sizes and templates and a virtually unlimited number of images per page, image layers, free positioning and flexible text tools. FotoInsight’s Managing Director Klaas Brumann states: “We launched the free Spanish photobook software a month ago and hundreds of photo books have already been created and printed through our Spanish service. We expect to help thousands of Italians to preserve their photographic memories in pristine colours, just like we do for our British customers.”
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Note to editors:
If you are a journalist and you’d like to try a photobook for yourself, please call IITM.info on 02076177469 or email pr (at) iitm.info . FotoInsight also offers special reader offers, and cover mount content opportunities.
Note to editors:
If you are a journalist and you’d like to try a photobook for yourself, please call IITM.info on 02076177469 or email pr (at) iitm.info . FotoInsight also offers special reader offers, and cover mount content opportunities.
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About TIPA (Technical Image Press Association)
TIPA is the main association of professional editors of independent European photo and imaging publications. 28 European publications with about 8 million readers in 12 European countries form this non-profit association which is not related to any manufacturer. The 2008 awards ceremony is the 17th in the series and took place in Cologne, Germany. A full list of winners and more information is online at the TIPA site.
TIPA is the main association of professional editors of independent European photo and imaging publications. 28 European publications with about 8 million readers in 12 European countries form this non-profit association which is not related to any manufacturer. The 2008 awards ceremony is the 17th in the series and took place in Cologne, Germany. A full list of winners and more information is online at the TIPA site.
Contact information
FotoInsight Ltd.
9 Moore Close, Cambridge, CB4 1ZP, UK
Tel. 02081449369
Email pr (at) fotoinsight.co.uk
9 Moore Close, Cambridge, CB4 1ZP, UK
Tel. 02081449369
Email pr (at) fotoinsight.co.uk
Labels: coffee table style photobook, digital photo album printing, export, Ireland, Italy, new products, photo book, photo print, Spain, UK
02 October 2007
FotoInsight's New Photo Book XL with extra Space for Holiday Pictures
FotoInsight produces innovation in rapid succession. Only two months into the launch of the latest FotoInsight Pro Software the online photo service releases an upgrade for additional, larger photo book formats, classic covers and the new PictureLive DVD service. The new version of the FotoInsight Designer software is available as a free download.
Half of all households use digital cameras. A growing share of camera users take high resolution pictures which can be enlarged to poster size. While computers, mobile phones and cameras have a tendency to become ever more compact, the resolution (or number of pixels) of digital images is growing ever larger. In line with it grows the demand for large format prints. FotoInsight serves this trend with posters, canvas printing and the new XL photobooks, in which pictures can extend across a 60cm / 24” wide double page spread.
“The digital image quality has improved vastly. The demand for our large format print products like poster- and canvas print has experienced explosive growth” explains FotoInsight’s Managing Director Klaas Brumann and adds: “We had many enquiries about how to create photo books in larger formats with the superb Photobook Software; the new XL-format photo book is the answer.”
The FotoInsight Pro photo book software is intuitive and does not require specialist knowledge. According to the vendor, the Layout Assistant in its “FotoInsight Pro” photo book software can design a coffee table style photo book in XL-format in under three minutes. Users with time and patience may enjoy designing their own printed photo album page by page or simply refine the Layout Assistant’s design with texts and repositioning the images.
FotoInsight now offers a range of 94 different photo book formats counted by cover, size and number of pages. Its portfolio ranges from a pocket size photo booklet through bound books in square format (8”x8” / 20x20cm) or A4 to the new XL-format (12”x12” / 30x30cm). All photo books (square, A4 and XL) from FotoInsight are available with very durable channel bind in a linen cover or in a soft or hardcover where cover and spine can be edited freely with photos and text. All photo books are available in different sizes, from 26 pages to 98 pages (increasing in eight page steps).
A popular occasion for digital photo book prints is the wedding photo book. With the software upgrade FotoInsight includes over 100 layouts and backgrounds and now adds classic cover materials, e.g. faux leather and premium linen in the large photo book XL. for true coffee table photo books.
Convenient and flexible
FotoInsight offers an easy to use, online photo service, compatible with digital images from any digital camera or camera phone brand. According to FotoInsight’s management its prints cost less and last longer compared to inkjet printing at home. FotoInsight offers a wide range of photo presents and print products like photo calendars, photo puzzles and picture pairs. The new FotoInsight Pro offline order client also includes the PictureLive-DVD (up to 4.7 GB), providing an optional, animated multimedia slide show with background music for the DVD player on a PC, TV or DVD player.
The creative freedom provided by the new FotoInsight Pro Software is not limited to photobooks, but the same tools can be used to create a calendar design with a number of different sizes and templates and a virtually unlimited number of images per page, image layers, free positioning and flexible text tools. FotoInsight’s Managing Director Klaas Brumann states: “Our team’s goal was to create the best, most flexible and easy to use photobook printing service. We think we have achieved this goal and are looking forward to the feedback on the new software version.”
About FotoInsight Limited
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 photo gift items as well as the 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 FotoInsight are developed in one of 19 strategically located, state of the art photo labs, employing 3000 staff, with an output of over 3 billion prints per year.
Contact information
FotoInsight Ltd.
9 Moore Close, Cambridge, CB4 1ZP, UK
Skype fotoinside
Tel. +44 8700 114911
Email pr (at) fotoinsight.co.uk
Labels: gift items, Large Photo book, photo album printing, photo print, photobooks from own pictures, XL-format
25 April 2006
FotoInsight is Preparing FIFA Photo Book for Germany
FotoInsight of Cambridge assured the FIFA photo book product in the world cup host country
Cambridge, UK. 26 April 2006. – This summer will see millions of people worldwide re-arrange their daily routines and work life to squeeze in as much footie as possible! In time for the football world cup Cambridge based FotoInsight is going to launch through its German service an innovative range of CEWE photo books with a FIFA license displaying up to 312 images through its online photo print service. From Cambridge Managing Director Klaas Brumann comments: “Pictures of matches, holidays and parties are fading away in shoeboxes and increasingly on hard drives of aging computers. FotoInsight’s mission is to prevent photographic memories from fading. A printed album, like the upcoming FIFA photobooks, helps to preserve all the memories of a great world cup in order, crisp colours and accessible.
The simplest method of getting a photo album with digital images is printing it. Since late 2005 FotoInsight offers digital camera users a personal photo book from their digital photographs. The personal photo book can be laid with FotoInsight's photo book software in the comfort of the own home.
Volume of photos taken more than tripled
While consumers took an average of 150 photos per year when using analogue cameras, digital camera users are releasing the shutter more than three times as often as the conventional amateur photographer, taking about 470 photos on average. According to FotoInsight, most digital photographers view and select their photos on a home computer. All those digital photos languishing on hard drives could finally see the light of day with the time-saving innovation. The digital photo service FotoInsight states to deliver to 21 European countries within one week of ordering online. Getting luxurious, hardbound, coffee-table style photo books is easy and set to become the latest must-have innovation in photo albums. Once the user has arrived at FotoInsight’s website and has clicked on the photo book icon displayed along side attractive photo calendars, a window appears in the familiar file tree style with text and animated illustrations explaining the upload. The user selects pictures selected through drag and drop directly from the computer. The order of the pictures can be changed after the upload through a range of interactive photo book editing tools. The cost of £19.99 / €27.99 per printed photo book (plus p&p) also includes the option to use online storage for photo sharing in FotoInsight’s online photo album facility one month free.
FotoInsight– Official FIFA World Cup 2006™ photo book for Germany
The Football World Cup will be taking place in Germany as of 7 June 2006. Many friends of the action around the ball will be attending live events to support their national team, join others to watch footie in pubs or at private parties and digital cameras as well as mobile phones will to help to preserve the joy. FotoInsight has assured official, FIFA licensed content to give its customers the chance to stores snapshots in a professional World Cup photo book. Dr. Michael Fries, in charge of the “My CeWe FIFA WM Photo book” at FotoInsight’s production partner comments: “Consumers can not only use their personal snapshots to design their own photo book, football fans will also find professional photos and editorial contributions from more than 100 different theme sections once the site goes live”. Teams, match reports, sketches, the history of the World Cup, information on the venues, etc will be laid out on double pages with emotional photos and detailed reports in a Word Cup design. The World Cup photo book is available in five different versions, starting at €9.95. FotoInsight’s Managing Director Klaas Brumann states “As a company in Cambridge hi-tech cluster we are particularly proud to combine our internet skills with the FIFA content to provide a winning product for the world cup host country” with FotoInsight head of communication, Catalina Martinez adding: “German football fans get the FIFA Photo book, but we are going to score the goals!”
Extension of the product range – hardcover and softcover
The photo book can also be ordered either with a hard cover or with a soft cover, including personal themes for the cover. The photo book is produced with a digital printing process and comes superbly bound. "In 2006, we expect that photo books will account for 35% of FotoInsight’s revenue" states FotoInsight Ltd Managing Director Klaas Brumann and continues: “Photographic memories must never fade. Our technology is smarter, providing long lasting photo book printing in superior quality.”
Contact information
FotoInsight Ltd.
9 Moore Close, Cambridge, CB4 1ZP, UK
Skype fotoinside
Email: pr (at) fotoinsight.uk
Tel. +44 8700 114911
Cambridge, UK. 26 April 2006. – This summer will see millions of people worldwide re-arrange their daily routines and work life to squeeze in as much footie as possible! In time for the football world cup Cambridge based FotoInsight is going to launch through its German service an innovative range of CEWE photo books with a FIFA license displaying up to 312 images through its online photo print service. From Cambridge Managing Director Klaas Brumann comments: “Pictures of matches, holidays and parties are fading away in shoeboxes and increasingly on hard drives of aging computers. FotoInsight’s mission is to prevent photographic memories from fading. A printed album, like the upcoming FIFA photobooks, helps to preserve all the memories of a great world cup in order, crisp colours and accessible.
The simplest method of getting a photo album with digital images is printing it. Since late 2005 FotoInsight offers digital camera users a personal photo book from their digital photographs. The personal photo book can be laid with FotoInsight's photo book software in the comfort of the own home.
Volume of photos taken more than tripled
While consumers took an average of 150 photos per year when using analogue cameras, digital camera users are releasing the shutter more than three times as often as the conventional amateur photographer, taking about 470 photos on average. According to FotoInsight, most digital photographers view and select their photos on a home computer. All those digital photos languishing on hard drives could finally see the light of day with the time-saving innovation. The digital photo service FotoInsight states to deliver to 21 European countries within one week of ordering online. Getting luxurious, hardbound, coffee-table style photo books is easy and set to become the latest must-have innovation in photo albums. Once the user has arrived at FotoInsight’s website and has clicked on the photo book icon displayed along side attractive photo calendars, a window appears in the familiar file tree style with text and animated illustrations explaining the upload. The user selects pictures selected through drag and drop directly from the computer. The order of the pictures can be changed after the upload through a range of interactive photo book editing tools. The cost of £19.99 / €27.99 per printed photo book (plus p&p) also includes the option to use online storage for photo sharing in FotoInsight’s online photo album facility one month free.
FotoInsight– Official FIFA World Cup 2006™ photo book for Germany
The Football World Cup will be taking place in Germany as of 7 June 2006. Many friends of the action around the ball will be attending live events to support their national team, join others to watch footie in pubs or at private parties and digital cameras as well as mobile phones will to help to preserve the joy. FotoInsight has assured official, FIFA licensed content to give its customers the chance to stores snapshots in a professional World Cup photo book. Dr. Michael Fries, in charge of the “My CeWe FIFA WM Photo book” at FotoInsight’s production partner comments: “Consumers can not only use their personal snapshots to design their own photo book, football fans will also find professional photos and editorial contributions from more than 100 different theme sections once the site goes live”. Teams, match reports, sketches, the history of the World Cup, information on the venues, etc will be laid out on double pages with emotional photos and detailed reports in a Word Cup design. The World Cup photo book is available in five different versions, starting at €9.95. FotoInsight’s Managing Director Klaas Brumann states “As a company in Cambridge hi-tech cluster we are particularly proud to combine our internet skills with the FIFA content to provide a winning product for the world cup host country” with FotoInsight head of communication, Catalina Martinez adding: “German football fans get the FIFA Photo book, but we are going to score the goals!”
Extension of the product range – hardcover and softcover
The photo book can also be ordered either with a hard cover or with a soft cover, including personal themes for the cover. The photo book is produced with a digital printing process and comes superbly bound. "In 2006, we expect that photo books will account for 35% of FotoInsight’s revenue" states FotoInsight Ltd Managing Director Klaas Brumann and continues: “Photographic memories must never fade. Our technology is smarter, providing long lasting photo book printing in superior quality.”
Contact information
FotoInsight Ltd.
9 Moore Close, Cambridge, CB4 1ZP, UK
Skype fotoinside
Email: pr (at) fotoinsight.uk
Tel. +44 8700 114911
Labels: digital photo processing online, FIFA, Football, Germany, image editing, new product, photo print, photographic paper, photography, software, word cup
