FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Collages.net takes Professional Photographer Hot1 Award for fourth year in a row
Langhorne, PA, October 8, 2003 - Professional Photographer magazine today announced its “Hottest Product of the Year” selection in the professional imaging products category. Collages.net is the winner for its newest product, MyLabPartner.net (“MLP”), which is presently being commercially launched with Burrell Professional Labs, H&H Color, and Miller’s Professional Imaging. MLP allows photographers to send their film or digital files to the lab in order to take advantage of the award-winning products and services of Collages.net.
The lab uploads the digitized and optimized images and the entire process of creating websites and building CDs and Proof Books is now handled by the photographer using this unprecedented and intuitive web-based tool. MLP completely streamlines the photographers’ workflow while greatly enhancing their ability to sell more images per event or portrait sitting.
Posting online, proofing, collecting reprint orders, designing Proof Books, CDs and DVDs, and ordering finished prints is now a snap with this NEW solution. Best of all, this is a completely web-based system, so it works great with both PC and MAC platforms. Film photographers send film to a participating lab where it is scanned and the digital files are uploaded to Collages.net. Digital photographers upload digital images directly to Collages.net. Once Collages.net receives the images, the website is created and all reprint orders placed on the sites are cropped online by the photographer, finalized, and sent electronically from the MLP tool to the lab for fulfillment using the high resolution images which reside at the lab.
“This new and very simple to use web-based system addresses unmet needs for the industry and has a tremendous positive impact of the workflow and profit margin of the studio," said Kevin Casey, CEO of Collages.net. "To have our service recognized now for four years in a row by the Professional Photographers of America tells us that we continue to meet the needs of professional photographers. We are delighted by this prestigious recognition."
ABOUT COLLAGES.NET
Collages.net provides a turnkey solution that enables professional photographers and professional color labs to offer clients customized e-commerce websites and commercial CD slideshow presentations for events such as weddings, portraits, sports, reunions, Bar / Bat Mitzvahs and corporate parties. With over 150,000 sixteen-minute visits to Collages event websites each month, Collages.net photographers enjoy a unique online presence and a turnkey marketing program which gives them exposure to a much broader audience. Collages customers across the country are now able to sell photographs and market their studios to guests, associates, friends and family members who previously had no access to the professional photographs. In addition, Collages.net’s new professional color lab offering, “MyLabPartner.net,” offers an end to end fulfillment and digital workflow solution and is scheduled to commercially launch this fall. Collages.net also designs, builds, and hosts studio websites for professional event photographers. You may see a demo at www.collages.net.
ABOUT PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER MAGAZINE
Professional Photographer magazine, official journal of the Professional Photographers of America, Inc., is the oldest exclusively professional photographic publication in the Western Hemisphere. The award-winning Professional Photographer magazine has been considered the flagship publication of the professional photography industry since 1907. A diverse panel of imaging professionals judged each product, looking for both quality and innovation. Professional Photographer presented Hot1 awards in categories representing the spectrum of imaging products, from albums and cameras to online services and digital printers. Winners were chosen for the exceptional quality, innovation, design, and performance in their respective categories. A complete list of Hot1 winners will appear in the upcoming issue of Professional Photographer, and will appear on the magazine's web site at http://www.ppmag.com.
ABOUT BURRELL PROFESSIONAL LABS (BPL)
Beautiful images captured by professional photographers demand to be produced with consistent quality, coupled with exceptional customer support. Burrell Professional Labs (BPL) delivers. We support your choice of capture: film, digital, or a combination of both. As demonstrated by the expert BPL Help Desk, innovative Digital Workflow Solutions, and Marketing Programs to support the growth of your studio, the BPL network of professional color labs is committed to providing the products, services, quality, and customer care which enable their customers to effectively compete and prosper in the rapidly changing photographic market.
ABOUT H&H COLOR LAB
H&H Color is a leading full service photographic and digital lab serving professional photographers across the United States, accepting both film and digital files. H&H offers roll film scans, service bureau, Studio Master, Collages.net, Pro Shots, and their own print ordering software written for both the Mac and PC called eZprint. New this year is the eZevent software for school and volume photographers and coming soon is digital black and white, printed on silver halide black and white paper, ink jet watercolor prints, and metallic papers both digital and optical H&H has been providing world class photographic services for over 33 years. A family owned business that prides itself on quality and long term relationships that grows with its customer needs. Committed to education through the H&H University now in its third year of classes and providing leading edge services as the dynamic world of film and digital photography evolves.
ABOUT MILLER”S PROFESSIONAL IMAGING
State-of-the-art imaging labs are not built overnight. Miller's was built on a foundation laid by generations past and present and continues to grow because of their customers who demand the very best. Miller's began as a small family business in 1939 and has enjoyed steady growth, losing none of the values and ideals inherent in their conception. They now operate from two Midwestern communities that reflect the values and ideals of a family-owned business. Miller's original home is Pittsburg, a small southeast Kansas community. The newer lab is located in Columbia, Missouri, a midsize city located halfway between St. Louis and Kansas City. Both communities offer broad cultural diversity rooted in a strong work ethic.
-###-