FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

Collages.net launches upgraded event websites

Newtown, PA. February 19, 2001 – Collages.net, the Professional Event Photographer’s Internet Partner, today announced the launch of their recently upgraded event website for Wedding, Portrait and event photographers.  Collages.net websites provide professional photographers a way to post photos from events such as weddings and bar mitzvahs on password protected websites for viewing and purchase. The upgraded site represents the culmination of over 18 months of feedback from professional photographers across the country.  “Our approach shifted greatly in this version as Collages.net is deliberately taking a backseat to the photographer’s brand. These new event sites are really an extension of the photographer’s studio. Except for the Collages.net home page, you no longer see our logo prominently displayed at the top of our pages”, commented Collages.net’s President Kevin Casey. “Today, Collages.net is simply seen as a "Powered by" emblem at the very bottom of the event web pages. This approach clearly appeals to the photographer and at the same time gives center stage to the photos from the wedding, portrait session, reunion, or company event that are displayed on our site.”  Links from photographers’ studio websites to the Collages.net LOGIN page are now accomplished seamlessly and visiting guests are transferred from studio’s website to the Collages engine without ever feeling that they left the studio’s website.

Collages.net directly addresses copyrights. Another outstanding feature of Collages.net’s new site is that anyone trying to print an image from the website receives a copyright warning. In addition, the right click feature of the mouse is disabled. This, combined with an indelible "Proof" watermark electronically embedded on each image provides photographers with the comfort of a bulletproof system that protects their images and ensures that they are compensated for the sale of their images. Collages.net has invested heavily in this area and photographers benefit from this new approach.

Collages.net has also made improvements to help each studio greatly increase their exposure. When an individual photo is e-mailed from an event website, the recipient of the email not only gets the image and the message, but they receive, embedded in each email, the corresponding photographer's contact information. A hotlink also invites them back to see the rest of the images at Collages.net.

Photographers are invited to view these changes by visiting www.collages.net and visiting the demo section to see sample websites of an entire Wedding, a Bat Mitzvah, or even a Family Portrait shoot. For more information, Collages.net can be reached, tollfree, at 1 (877) NET-PHOTO or (877) 638-7467.

ABOUT COLLAGES.NET

Collages.net delivers turnkey Internet solutions for the professional photographer enabling them to create a password-protected website for each event they shoot. Photos are scanned and uploaded by Collages.net, which sends e-mails to attendees who can visit the website, view the photos and order prints or CD ROMs. Collages.net was recently recognized by PPA publications as having the “Hottest Online Service” available for today’s professional photographer.

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