FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Professional Photographer names Collages.net Hottest Online Photography Service for the third year in a row   Langhorne, PA, September 16, 2002 - 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 "One-Click fulfillment" of reprint orders that take place on the Collages.net event websites. Photographers no longer need to "touch" a negative when they take advantage of Collages.net's "One-Click fulfillment" service.  Images that are sent by photographers are scanned by Collages.net at a high resolution and maintained on the Collages.net server. When orders come in to the photographer’s admin area, they are cropped using Collages.net’s online cropping tool and automatically forwarded to the lab for fulfillment. Event guests can now have a finished print in less than a week.   “Our team is very proud of this prestigious award from Professional Photographer Magazine. One-click fulfillment is Collages.net’s first step towards our plans of building a comprehensive online tool that allows the event guest, the photographer and the lab to collaborate via the internet,” said Kevin Casey, CEO of Collages.net. “Additional reprint orders from event websites are welcomed by all studios and we understand how important it is that the processing of these orders is efficient. The workflow must be easy. Over the next twelve months, we expect that this new tool will help provide us with key information as we lay the foundation for our cross-platform, web-based tool that will allow photographers to build their event sites, build their own CDs and DVDs, design Proof Books, build albums online, and easily process internet orders with their chosen lab.”   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 100,000 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.                                                                                 -###-