Online Digital Photographic Processing

Photo presents like photo books and canvas prints are popular for preserving personal memories in style. At popular occasions like Mother's Day or a birthday photo gifts are a present as personal as the relationship.

London. 19 February 2009. Mother's Day is a day honoring mothers, celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent (three weeks before Easter Sunday). Mothering Sunday is believed to have originated from the 16th century Christian practice of visiting one's mother church annually, which meant that most mothers would be reunited with their children on this day. Most historians believe that young apprentices and young women in servitude were released by their masters that weekend in order to visit their families. As a result of secularisation, it is now principally used to show appreciation to one's mother, although it is still recognised in the historical sense by some churches, with attention paid to Mary the mother of Jesus Christ as well as the traditional concept 'Mother Church'.



In the United States, Mother's Day was inspired by the British day after the American Civil War. However, it was intended by social activists as a call to unite women against war in a Mother's Day for Peace. From there it took only very few years to turn Mother's Day into one of the commercially most important events of the year and to spread around the world the idea of giving presents as a sign of attention and respect to one's mother. The ideal mother's day gift should be as personal as the relationship. Photo memory gifts often combine the useful or pleasant with personalisation. The online digital photo service Printing-1 drops the delivery charge in time for Mother's day for its photo book and photo canvas printing service. Photo book and canvas print orders placed between the 2nd and 15th of March will be free of delivery and processing charges, saving £4.90 per order.

The Printing-1 Photobook Software for Windows PC and Apple MacOS

According to Printing-1 during the photobook software development special emphasis was laid on flexibility and user comfort. The page numbering style can be chosen for each individual page. Instead of a limiting automatic layout assistant the application provides templates to position images precisely easily. Printing-1 also offers silk matt and glossy paper and its software allows switching between different types of binding and book formats at any time during the design process.

Not only printed photo albums but also online photo sharing

Individual photobooks can be saved online as projects. Before placing a print order, the photo book layout file is uploaded to Printing-1 first. There the photo book can be shared free of charge with friends and family before ordering prints; which is particularly practical when after a party or family event others pay for their own copy. Sending printed memory books directly to friends and family abroad (Europe or the USA) also makes a very personal gift and saves postage.

Flexible and convenient

Printing-1 offers a Windows and Mac OS compatible, online photo service, which can be used with photos from any digital camera or camera phone. Printing-1 specialises in photo books and photo canvas printing only.  The digital photo service Printing-1 delivers in the UK and most European countries as well as the USA within two weeks of ordering online. Photo books professionally printed from own digital photographs are on their way to replace the traditional photo album. Apart from the Pocket and the Maxi format Printing-1 is offering three further intermediate sizes.

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Printing-1 UK – http://www.printing-1.co.uk

Printing-1 Deutschland – http://www.printing-1.de

Printing-1 France - http://www.printing-1.fr

Printing-1 España - http://www.printing-1.es

Printing-1 Italia - http://www.printing-1.it

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Printing-1 Background

Printing-1 started in October 2006 in Cambridge as a British-German joint-venture. The Internet-Service is specialising in high quality, modern photo print products like photo books and photo canvas.

Press Contact

International IT Marketing Limited,

Catalina Martinez, Head of Communication, printing-1

London, UK

Email: pr (at) printing-1.com

Tel. +44 (0)20 7617 7469

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Labels: new products, photo books and book from own digital images, photo printing, photographic gift items

Printing-1 the specialist service for PC and Mac makes ever bigger photo books. The new larger formats Premium (H12” x W16”) and Panorama (H8” x W12”) offer space for many photographs on up to 250 pages.

Labels: book from own digital images, new products, photo book calendars, photo printing, photographic gift items, printed photo albums

Labels: coffee table style photo book, digital photo album printing, Large photo book, photobooks from own digital images, photographic gift items, XL-format

The trend to personalised gift production continues. Flowers and cards don’t suffice for mother’s day. FotoInsight prints photos uploaded over the internet onto gift items. For this year’s Mother’s Day and Easter, FotoInsight expands its range of photo gifts adding the Panoramic Photo Mug.

FotoInsight of Cambridge, a leading independent digital photo service in the UK, announced today a new Panoramic Photo Mug. To apply the wider, panoramic photo onto mugs FotoInsight uses a new rotating print process. The new photo mug is launched in addition to FotoInsight’s already extensive range of photographic gift items, printed photo albums, poster, greeting cards and photo calendars.


Mother's Day is a day honouring mothers, celebrated in many places around the world. Mothers often receive gifts on this day. When searching for Mother’s Day or Easter gift ideas the personal touch and lasting impression are desired which chocolates and flowers can’t provide. Online photo services like FotoInsight can help by transforming an individual photograph into a present that will be cherished and remembered for years to come.

• Active families who want to remember their holidays will find the photo book printed from own digital photographs ideal. 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. CEWE Photobooks in a full colour and fully editable cover start from £14.99 for 26 pages in colour (plus p&p). FotoInsight is promoting Large and XL Photo Books with a £5 voucher (simply write 5YEARS into the voucher field).

• In lieu of store-bought sentiments featuring cartoon characters, own Easter Day cards with FotoInsight photo Greeting Cards are another way to say “I am thinking of you!”. Photographic greeting cards can be personalised with a romantic poem or a few simple words straight from the heart.

• A holiday or family photo as a canvas print? FotoInsight prints digital images onto fabric, stretched and mounted onto a wooden frame. Delivered ready to hang onto the wall. Sizes range from about A4 / 12”x8” (from £24.99 plus p&p) and can be as large as 32”x24”. 

• A calendar from Mother’s Day to Mother’s Day? FotoInsight calendars can start any month of the year. A hanging wall calendar offers room to jot down birthdays and family events; it is easy to prepare a photo calendar with 12 photographs or more, prices start from £9.99 (plus p&p), a freely editable year planner costs only £4.99 (plus p&p).

• Other photo gift classics include the photo tote bag, pillow case with photo on print and a photo heart with the picture laser engraved in real crystal,


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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Contact information

FotoInsight Ltd.,
Cambridge, CB4 1ZP, UK
Tel. 02081449369
pr (at) fotoinsight.co.uk

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

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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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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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

The online photo printing service, founded in 2003 offers its customers a £5 discount on its A4 and new XL photo books.

Cambridge, GB. 26 Nov 2007. – During the first four years thousands of digital camera users have had photo calendars printed with FotoInsight. With the popularity of its photo book service, launched in 2005, the online service started to grow rapidly, so that the company is now operating Europe wide. To celebrate it’s success in its fifth year, FotoInsight is giving away £5 discount vouchers on its large (12”x8”) and XL format photo books (12”x12”).

FotoInsight’s Managing Director Klaas Brumann comments: "We think that our large and XL photo books are the most impressive coffee table photo books from own digital images in the UK. FotoInsight is preparing to accept photo book orders for delivery within the UK in time for Christmas up to the 10th of December. For Soft- and Linen Cover photo books FotoInsight states that it will deliver in time for Christmas if ordered by the 12th of December."

Photo books are a personal present, preserving memories for friends, family and one self. Popular for photographs of memorable events like holidays, a party or wedding photo album, an XL or A4 photo book from FotoInsight will keep the images accessible and preserve colourful memories. In a photo book colours still shine when a SIM-card or CD has long oxidized or become incompatible. Dr. Rolf Hollander, CEO of FotoInsight’s production partner and largest photo finisher in Europe: "Quality is our priority. All materials we use are subject to extensive testing and are guaranteed by their manufacturers to last at least 100 years. This guarantee extends to photo printing on real photographic paper as well as to the photo book."

FotoInsight 5th year £5 discount:

1.- Download CeWe Photobook Software FotoInsight Pro

2.- Design Photo Book Large or XL from own digital images

3.- Start order upload

4.- Write "5YEARS" into the voucher field when signing in

5.- Save £5 (one voucher per household, valid until November 2008.)

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 digital photo gifts and print products like photo calendars, photo puzzles and picture pairs, catering for the consumer, hobby and professional photographer as well as the graphic arts. FotoInsight’s Managing Director Klaas Brumann comments from Cambridge: "If you want to try a long lasting, professionally printed photo album in maximum quality take advantage of the £5 discount voucher, typing “5YEARS” into the voucher code field when prompted. Orders for photo books placed by the 10th of December will be delivered in the UK (mainland) in time for Christmas.“

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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 photobooks, photo poster, photographic calendar and photo 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 processed in one of 20 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.

Catalina Martínez, Head of Communication

9 Moore Close, Cambridge, CB4 1ZP, UK

Skype fotoinside

Tel. +44 8700 114911

Fax +44 8715 601675

Email pr (at) fotoinsight.co.uk

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How to print real photo postcards from a satellite image of your street or neighbourhood
Cambridge. 20 February 2006. - The virtual earth simulation software “Google Earth” has become hugely popular amongst internet users across the world. The free application incorporates maps, driving directions, and satellite images. It allows users to zoom and pan over three-dimensional images of cities and landscapes, drilling down from space to overhead details.

With a few steps and tricks it is even possible to produce personalised aerial postcards of a street or neighbourhood without the costs that used to be associated with aerial photography. Google Earth works on Windows 2000, XP, or Mac OS X (10.4) and can be downloaded for free from http://earth.google.com/. Once installed it is easy to navigate to an addresses in the UK using a post code or place name. The aerial image displayed can be rotated and tilted for the best view, which can be saved as a jpeg. The application allows tagging places and buildings, e-mailing images or creating so called place marks, which work like a link which can be shared with other Google Earth users. Another convenient way to extract image data from Google Earth, is using one of the many screen shot applications available for free on the net. One such application is greenstreet SnapShot. Greenstreet software Limited, a 20 year old British developer of graphic software applications and their screen shot tools SnapShot can be downloaded for free from Electric Software, a site which promotes software offers, including several greenstreet applications and games.

The Google Earth Licence limits the use of the image data, but states: “You can personally use an image from the application as long as you preserve the copyrights and attributions including the Google logo attribution. However, you cannot sell these to others, provide them as part of a service, or use them in a commercial product such as a book or TV show without first getting a rights clearance from Google.” The image data, though constantly improving (a new update was released in January), is still patchy in places, but from other areas images can be extracted, which are sufficiently clear to print satisfying aerial postcards of a street or neighbourhood. Google Earth images do not produce the crispest of prints, but are unique and a great surprise and joy for friends, a gift for a housewarming party or suitable image for an invitation card.

Once a suitable jpeg has been cropped and scaled to the size desired and it has been interpolated and saved this can be printed on an inkjet printer or through one of the online photo processing services like FotoInsight.com. FotoInsight claims that professional photo processing achieves a higher perceived resolution through the use of a larger number of colours and uses longer lasting inks.

Personalised postcards and greeting cards from satellite images are a welcome change to the Birthday, Anniversary-, Mother’s Day, Season Greetings or Valentines Cards routine. FotoInsight photo postcards have a print area of 14 x 10 cm and the ideal resolution would be 866 x 615 pixel. Folding greetings cards have a print area of 13 x 9 cm where the ideal resolution would be a 799 x 556 pixel digital image file. For all printed cards the image jpegs should ideally exceed 100 kb in size. Once the photograph has been uploaded to http://fotoinsight.ie/ or http://fotoinsight.co.uk the online photo service provides text tools ideal to insert a postcode, name or address details into the aerial photograph. FotoInsight’s print products, like postcards, greetings cards, photo books and photo calendars are printed in high resolution using the long lasting indigo print process. The cards come in sets of ten cards per order and are delivered by mail in the Ireland, the UK and Europe. These images can equally be applied on shirts, mugs, mouse pads and other personalised photo gifts.

FotoInsight of Cambridge provides photo processing and a range of gift items to consumers and businesses in the UK, Ireland and Europe through its website since November 2003. FotoInsight caters for all major operating systems, including Macintosh as well as for the main browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox and Netscape with upload facilities which do not require additional software. From Cambridge Brumann comments: “Digital photos are an ideal starting point for personalised gifts. FotoInsight thrives to constantly provide new products and ideas to get more out of your digital images.” In addition, FotoInsight also provides a free e-Card service, where professional and own photographs can be send as an online greetings card.


Contact information

FotoInsight Ltd.
Klaas Brumann, Managing Director
Cambridge, CB4 1ZP, UK
Skype fotoinside
Tel. +44 8700 114911
Email: pr (at) fotoinsight.com

Press Contact:

IITM is a specialist agency and will be delighted to arrange interviews, images, NFR versions for review and discuss opportunities for software reviews, cover mounts, incentives, OEM version.

IITM LLP
Catalina Martinez 
Email: cm (at) IITM.info
Tel. +44 20 3286 1751               

Labels: digital photo processing online, Google Earth, greetings cards, photographic gift items, photographic paper, photographic printing, picture postcards, satellite images

Europe’s largest photo paper processing and photographic gift items range reaches Spain
FotoInsight of Cambridge provides photo processing and a range of gift items to consumers and businesses in Europe through its website since November 2003. Today the company announced the start of its Spanish service http://fotoinsight.es/. Over its first two years the business has expanded, selling photographic paper prints in the UK and 20 European countries in four languages. The company started a German operation in June and an Italian in October 2005, apart from its original English language services. The FotoInsight photo processing service is backed by 19 production sites, strategically located throughout Europe. Customers can take advantage of the same low delivery charge to all 20 European destinations. Managing Director Klaas Brumann says: “Spain is Europe’s most popular holiday destination and our new printed photo book is ideal to browse, show and preserve the best holiday snaps. We expect a many orders for holiday photo as well as photo gifts shipments from and to Spain. We think Spanish consumers and businesses will particularly appreciate our international delivery capabilities and wide range of photographic gift items.”

Apart from processing digital images onto real photo paper, FotoInsight is sourcing a wide range of cotton T-shirts, sweat shirts, pillow cases and a canvas bag to which it applies the customer’s photograph. According to Brumann record sales of FotoInsight’s photo gift ideas range have “exploded over Christmas”.

According to the FotoInsight management, the online service stands out for the many conveniences it provides to its customers, who can upload most digital image formats and even entire ZIP and RAR compressed folders through an Active-X site for photo calendars and printed photobooks. In addition, FotoInsight caters for all mayor operating systems, including Macintosh as well as Firefox and Netscape browser users with special upload facilities with no need for additional software. From Cambridge Brumann comments: “Photographic memories must never fade. FotoInsight is proud to provide the infrastructure and conveniences to preserve memories in vivid colours.”






Contact information

FotoInsight Ltd.
Klaas Brumann, Managing Director
9 Moore Close, Cambridge, CB4 1ZP, UK
Skype fotoinside
Tel. +44 8700 114911
Email kb (at) fotoinsight.com

 

Press Contact:

IITM is a specialist agency and will be delighted to arrange interviews, images, NFR versions for review and discuss opportunities for software reviews, cover mounts, incentives, OEM versions.

International IT Marketing Limited
Catalina Martinez
Email: cm (at) IITM.info
Tel. +44 20 3286 1751

Labels: digital camera photo, online photo processing UK, photo calendars, photo mugs, photographic gift items, photographic paper processing, poster printing

FotoInsight.com – more choice for better picturesEurope’s largest photo paper processing and photographic gift items range reaches Italy

Cambridge, UK. 6 October 2005. –FotoInsight of Cambridge provides photo processing and a large range of gift items to consumers and businesses in the UK and Ireland since November 2003. The company announced today the start of its Italian service site. Over its first two years the business has expanded, selling photographic paper prints in Ireland and 20 other countries, with sites in three languages. The company started operating a German language site in June this year, apart from its original English language services. FotoInsight's photo processing service is backed by 20 production sites, strategically located throughout Europe. Customers can take advantage of the same low delivery charge to all 20 European destinations. Managing Director Klaas Brumann says: “The Italian photographic processing market is known for its high standards in print quality and its demanding consumers. We are very excited about FotoInsight’s expansion into Italy. We think Italian consumers and businesses will particularly appreciate our emphasis on quality and realistic colours.”

FotoInsight’s service uses unique cutting technology to provide photo printing to measure, allowing customers to upload any image format from square to 2:3 format (for example for 10 x 15 cm / 6”x4” prints), receiving the full, cleanly cut image with no need for cropping. FotoInsight also prints posters up to 50 x 75 cm (30”x20”) on quality photographic paper for less than €15.- / £10.- (plus p&p). According to Brumann sales of FotoInsight’s photo gifts range grew 360% year on year, driven by huge demand for its low price, high quality range of photographic calendars.

According to the FotoInsight management the online service stands out for the many conveniences it provides to its customers, who can upload through an Active-X site most digital image formats and even entire ZIP and RAR compressed folders. In addition FotoInsight caters for all mayor operating systems, including Macintosh as well as Netscape browser users with special upload facilities with no need for additional software. From Cambridge Brumann comments: “Photographic memories must never fade. Our technology is smarter, providing superior performance with maximum print quality and durability.”



Information about FotoInsight.com
FotoInsight Limited runs a custom made and easy to use print processing service. 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 20 strategically located, state of the art photo labs, employing 4000 staff, with an output of over 3 billion prints per year.

Contact information
FotoInsight Ltd., Klaas Brumann, Managing Director
Cambridge, CB4 1ZP, UK
Tel. +44 8700 114911
Email pr (at) fotoinsight.com
Skype fotoinside
http://fotoinsight.it/

Labels: digital camera photo, photo calendars, photo mugs, photo processing in Ireland, photographic gift items, photographic paper processing, poster printing