Showcase your clients’ wedding details–and your photography–in our hot-off-the-press 8-page special issue that’s all about them. The magazine is the ultimate wedding upsell: add it to your top-level package, use it as an incentive for clients to book, offer it as a distinctive à la carte add-on, and present it as a piece of viral marketing showing off your work. Designed to spotlight their wedding festivities and love story, this template for the bride and groom is ideal for save-the-dates, official invitations, wedding goodie bags, or ceremony programs. The client magazine can also be viewed online as a modern digital presentation or emailed to guests as a digital download. Preparing the template is a snap with our professionally designed client questionnaire, written specifically to correspond with the magazine’s layout.The magazine’s three included logos, all customizable with your clients’ initials, allow your clients to impress their style upon the issue. And in case your clients are so smitten, they want to take the magazine’s design all the way: use the coordinating save-the-date and invitation templates to tie together the entire look and maximize your pre-wedding sales while you highlight your imagery for hundreds of potential referrals.Use the Wedding Day Client Magazine as:
• an easy upsell for your wedding packages
• a seal-the-deal incentive for client bookings
• a tempting à la carte add-on
• a viral marketing piece for referrals and future clients
• an opportunity to gain hundreds of email addresses via the sign-up link to view your clients’ online wedding gallery

INCLUDES:

• Layered PSD and InDesign files for simple modifications and complete customization
• 8-page magazine layout
• Professionally written headers, verbiage and inspiration
• Gorgeous 3 page client questionnaire for collecting magazine details
• Coordinating save-the-date template for 5×5” flat card or virtual card
• BONUS: Coordinating wedding invitation template for 5×7” flat card or virtual card
• Designed with ProDPI’s 8.5×11” booklet template

The images above were edited in three different lighting situations. These were quick & simple color adjustments (nothing fancy) but each is different. The differences can best be noticed when focusing on the brides neck & shoulder line, plus there is a overall shift in the yellow values.

a) This is the original raw file straight out of the camera.  b) This version was edited with the lights off and the only present light was from the monitor.  c) This version was edited with no natural light and under ordinary household lighting (typical light bulbs that normally cast a yellow/warm tone).  d) This version was edited in a room lit with true natural daylight bulbs, next to an open window during the day, and in a room with neutral cream colored walls.

Tips & Recommendations

Calibration

Investing in a reliable and accurate device is very important. Colorvision Spyder devices and the X-Rite i1 Display Pro are great choices. Re-calibrate your monitor about every two weeks and keep your eye out for new technology and developments in color management. A great resource for how-to and how-come questions is www.colorwiki.com.

Environment

We’re not saying that you have to repaint your office or go shopping for a new wardrobe in order to match your prints. However, the colors that are bouncing around the room during the editing process can sometimes have a significant effect (depending on how strong the color is). If you decide to revamp your workspace walls we recommend munsell gray because it is the most neutral color for editing. Keep to neutral colored furniture and décor – even wood finishes will create warm casts! For lighting, bulbs manufactured by Solux provide consistent and reliable lighting at the ideal 5000 Kelvin. Beware of bargain bulbs labeled “daylight”. If you edit at night, having a few true daylight fixtures around should be sufficient as long as the room is well lit.

Soft Proofing

ProDPI offers ICC Soft Proofing profiles for the following photographic papers: Fuji Luster, Fuji Pearl, and Kodak Metallic. We also offer ICC Soft Proofing Profiles for all three of our Fine Art papers. Once installed in Photoshop these profiles will give you a preview of how the colors in your image will reproduce on that particular paper. To utilize the ICC Soft Proofing profiles all you need is Photoshop and a calibrated monitor. You do not need to use our soft proofing profiles on every image that you edit, but they are highly recommended if you’re concerned with a particular color.

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Test Printing

Whether you’ve purchased a new calibration device, you’re calibrating for the first time, or you’ve purchased a new monitor or computer; it is very important to send in test prints if something has changed within your editing environment. We WANT your prints to match. ProDPI offers FREE calibration test printing through the Get Started Here catalog in ProDPI Roes. We even have a guide that shows you how to order!

Roes Guide: How to order calibration prints

Bamboo Panel Mounts

Looking for another eye catching product to drive sales during the summer? Here are a few fun summer products that are sure to do the trick!

 Bamboo Panel Mounts 

We’ve received amazing feedback from customers and end clients on this eco-conscious product. The color of the bamboo is perfect when contrasted by summer greens, and absolutely gorgeous with bold highlights and soft yellows. Super easy to order in ProDPI Roes (drag and drop), sizes up to 20×30, any photo paper. See larger images!

Booklets

Booklets 

Create a new studio brochure for summer sessions with ProDPI Booklets! Our booklets, paired with almost any of Design Aglow‘s fresh studio marketing templates, are sure to call out to those summer portrait lovers.

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Matted Image Folios

 Matted Image Folios

Clean, classy, and timeless. Perfect for weddings, seniors, gifts, studio displays, and much more. Also easy to order in Roes. For summer, we recommend this product with some of our lighter fabrics. These ones have truly inspired smiles: Natural Linen, Champagne Chrome, Poppy, Blue Speckled Peach, Butter, Celery, and Sea Green.

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*Don’t forget to check out our fabrics!

You can update this information and more by logging into your ProDPI account at ProDPI.com. If you haven’t logged in, all you’ll need is your ProDPI account number and billing zip code. Give it a try! To access ProDPI Connect go to prodpiconnect.com or prodpi.com and click the Account tab.

Track Orders & Invoices

With ProDPIConnect.com you can check the in-lab status of an order, locate tracking numbers for orders that have already shipped, and full access to printable invoices. You can even run annual statements! Below we’ve listed a quick breakdown of how it works and everything that you can access by logging into your account online.

Options 

 

Left: Click any of these to view the order invoice. Right: Click any of these to be redirected to the UPS tracking. *Orders without tracking numbers are generally USPS packages.

Balance

The balance shown here will tell you the total amount due. Even though invoices are processed automatically, this area is here in case you need to know how much the charge will be on your credit card. This area also reflects lab credits. If you’ve been issued a lab credit, the amount listed here will show up as a negative.

It’s pretty simple, just enter your name and email address so we can contact you and on June 21, we’ll be announcing a winner. This sweet little camera is fantastic as a weekend camera but also does well during the reception and dances. It’s small and stealthy and a whole lot of fun.

You’ve seen people using them, now it’s time to get your own. Ends midnight, June 21, 2013!

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“Over $2500 In Prizes From Design Aglow and Our Partners!

A $500 gift certificate from ProDPI. A $500 gift certificate from The Define School. Full-year business plans from Squarespace. An iPad mini with handheld sales room app from Preveal. A Dark Truffle Leather Brixton camera bag and Presidio strap (so brand-new they’ve yet to be released to the public) from ONA. A $500 gift certificate from Finao.

Um, can we enter these giveaways? Design Aglow’s week of serious swag to celebrate our website relaunch kicks off Monday (6/3) at midnight EST and continues through Saturday; what are you dreaming about winning?” Click HERE  for the full Design Aglow blog post!

Sizing Guides – ProDPI Price Guide – Press Printed Albums

Orders with a 1 business day in-lab turn around that are received on Thursday, June 6th, 2013 by 3:00PM MT will ship on Friday, June 7th, 2013.

Orders with a 1 business day in-lab turn around that are received on Thursday, June 6th, 2013 after 3:00PM MT will ship on Monday, June 10th, 2013.

Please contact us with any questions or concerns.

Let’s talk about aspect ratio and why it is important in printing! In this post, we’re going to focus on the 3:2 aspect ratio, and use it as a comparison to others because 3:2 accommodates a great range of print sizes without any cropping. Understanding aspect ratio is super important because with some standard print sizes your image will encounter unavoidable cropping. For example, if your original file is 3:2 ratio, and your customer orders an 8×10, cropping will definitely occur.

Below (on the left): this image was originally exported out of a digital camera at 3:2. The rest of the examples were center cropped from this 8×12 to show other print sizes. The original image with no cropping is the 8×12 (3:2 crop ratio). There are other print sizes that are also 3:2 crop ratio which are listed in the example at the bottom of this page.

Example 1: 8×12 image (3:2 aspect ratio) being center cropped to 8×10 (5:4 aspect ratio)

Example 2: 4×6 (3:2 aspect ratio) being center cropped to 5×7 image (7:5 aspect ratio)

Quick exercise: Compare the 8×12 and 4×6 images above. They both have the same crop ratios (3:2) so there is no cropping that will occur when switching between these print sizes; the only difference being that one print will be larger than the other. If you compare 8×12, 8×10, and 5×7: these are all different ratios which means the cropping with be unavoidably different with each print size.

Tips & Recommendations

“I approved the preview of the image that you sent me, but I did NOT approve this cropping” How do you avoid issues with clients not understanding crop ratio, or better yet, how do you avoid having to explain crop ratio? We have a few recommendations. 1. Instead of listing print sizes, provide a visual catalog of sizes in your product guide. Design Aglow’s Client Order Planning Guide is a perfect start! 2. Use an electronic device, such as an iPad, during sales sessions. There are various iPad Apps that are wonderful sales tools. The Preveal iPad App not only gives your clients a visual preview of the cropping with each print size, but it allows them to zoom and adjust the cropping to their liking. 3. Last but not least, and this one can be combined with recommendations 1 & 2, leave yourself a bit more room around your subjects when shooting. In the end, you’ll find more print sizes available because you have more room to work with if cropping is required.