Cranston Middle School Postpones Its Wackiness

How many times has something like this happened to you?  I thought this was really funny and typical of a school photographer’s luck…  At least they rescheduled the event instead of photographing everyone wearing psychedelic wigs for their pictures… or making the school photographer change  their date after the parents had already been notified.
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Yearbook Design Software – YearbookFusion by Lumapix

If you’re looking for a great solution to produce your own yearbooks & need software to do so, take a look at Yearbook Fusion by LumaPix.  Everyone who I have spoken with regarding this software finds it simply unbelievable.
YearbookFusion is a software package specialized for yearbook layout.
It streamlines the process of creating yearbooks, church directories, [...]

School Account Cost Caculator

Here’s a quick way to figure out approximately how much you will make at any given elementary school.
Number of Students x $6.35 – Your costs including labor & Materials for packages to take the pictures.
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Commission & Services – Add this to your cost of taking the pictures.  Services include, CDs, ID cards, etc.  Commissions are [...]

Keep Up With The ‘Inside Scoop’ of Your School Accounts

Use the Internet to help you keep up with what is going on with your schools.  The information can be useful for conversation starters with your school contacts or may even give you a scoop about something more significant.  You might learn about something your competitor did wrong or that one of your accounts is [...]

Using the Web to Promote Your Business

As a business geared toward photographing students, it’s important that you as a photographer keep up with the current trends of communication.  Things have changed rapidly over the last couple of years…
U.S. Post Office – OUT!
LandLine Phone – OUT!
Email – OUT!
Texting – IN!
Facebook – IN!
Twitter – IN!
One of our customers makes it a point to [...]

Lifetouch Photographer Cleared of Touching

Allegations were dropped against a Lifetouch photographer accused of inappropriate touching while posing students at a Junior High School. Click HERE for more info.
See my earlier blog entry about “No-Touch” posing.

Setting Up ImageMatch™ for Group or Class Photos

Class photos, Memory Mates, Team pictures, Trading cards, and other digital service items use photos where there is a group of students or athletes from a single class or team in one photo that you want to link to the individuals to create and print those services. By using ImageMatch™ and ProServices™ you can [...]