Sometimes the easiest questions turn out to be the hardest to answer, so when a client asked the difference between a DVD with a slideshow and a photoframe I was a bit floored. Where do you start ....
Well, a photoframe shows digital image data files, typically jpgs. Not so with a slideshow DVD, that may start with a jpg but the burn process converts it into a format compatible with a TV screen.
Menu structure? Transitions? Running order? All of this is user defined and controlled when you set up your slideshow. You can achieve many of these features on your photoframe by accessing controls from a main menu. You might feel it gives you greater flexibility.
Music? Every TV will play a slideshow soundtrack but this is available on few photoframes. Personally, I think music lifts a slideshow significantly.
Personalisation? Not via a cheap plastic DVD, but the price of photoframe food including USB memory sticks is falling. Think of each dinky memory card as a digital photoalbum. As with traditional photo albums remember to label it, after a while they all look the same and it's annoying to have to put five or six into the photoframe to find the set of photos you want.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Friday, March 20, 2009
1Scan uses Kodak Scanner
One of my commercial interests is a photo scanning service called 1Scan. Towards the end of last year we decided to expand our service from slides and negatives plus some prints, to cover high volume photo scanning. Having scoured the market for a good, high speed scanner we went with Kodak's s1220.
And I'm very glad we did, it's just great. Not only do we love it but so too do our clients. I was pleased when the chance came up for us to do a press release with our new best friends at Kodak. Yesterday the release went out and I was pleased to find out via Google Alerts that it had been picked up by various electronic press release services.
You can see first that came to my attention here.
And I'm very glad we did, it's just great. Not only do we love it but so too do our clients. I was pleased when the chance came up for us to do a press release with our new best friends at Kodak. Yesterday the release went out and I was pleased to find out via Google Alerts that it had been picked up by various electronic press release services.
You can see first that came to my attention here.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Ecademy Cold Turkey
For nearly three years I was a paid up member of social networking site ecademy.com. But no longer, today is the first day of the rest of my life.
OK, that's overstating it but I cancelled my membership. Why? Well, nothing against ecademy but it stopped being helpful. When I began I was mainly interested in getting a good Google ranking and ecademy helped. Lately Google have significantly marked down the effectiveness of social network sites such as ecademy and the weighting they give for backlinks.
My personal and business interests drifted towards images, scanning, photo albums etc and that's a very minor area of ecademy which is mainly populated by marketing gurus, personal development coaches, SEO experts (rapidly leaving) and the usual cast of oddballs. Ecademy just stopped being relevant.
And I felt I was becoming addicted. I had the page open in Safari and I found myself commenting on ecademy blog posts in which I really had no great expertise, and not a lot to add.
I'm concentrating on photo, slide and negative scanning via 1Scan.co.uk and also personalised-photoalbums.com (which should be self explanatory).
OK, that's overstating it but I cancelled my membership. Why? Well, nothing against ecademy but it stopped being helpful. When I began I was mainly interested in getting a good Google ranking and ecademy helped. Lately Google have significantly marked down the effectiveness of social network sites such as ecademy and the weighting they give for backlinks.
My personal and business interests drifted towards images, scanning, photo albums etc and that's a very minor area of ecademy which is mainly populated by marketing gurus, personal development coaches, SEO experts (rapidly leaving) and the usual cast of oddballs. Ecademy just stopped being relevant.
And I felt I was becoming addicted. I had the page open in Safari and I found myself commenting on ecademy blog posts in which I really had no great expertise, and not a lot to add.
I'm concentrating on photo, slide and negative scanning via 1Scan.co.uk and also personalised-photoalbums.com (which should be self explanatory).
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Affinity Groups
Had a call today at 1Scan.co.uk, from a young lady with a clever fund raising idea. She runs a youth group and needs to raise funds. She's putting out a call for photos from past members which will be scanned (by us) then put into a personalised photo album, a multi yearbook.
Having spoken to a few ex-members she thinks she can see each book for twice the production cost, and has a target of 150 copies.
It's a great idea, I think she'll do well with this one.
Having spoken to a few ex-members she thinks she can see each book for twice the production cost, and has a target of 150 copies.
It's a great idea, I think she'll do well with this one.
Monday, March 9, 2009
Welcome
Some years ago I started a photo scanning service called 1Scan. It took a while to get going but now I'm pleased to say 1Scan is a thriving business converting photos, slides and negatives into great digital photos.
At the beginning I thought that was it, that going from an old print or 35mm slide to a digital jpg or tiff was enough. Then I got talking to my clients and found out why they came to 1Scan. The scanning, for them, is just the first step. They were taking their digital images and doing something else, or at least they wanted. What they wanted to achieve was a personalised photo album.
Often, they didn't know how. So here I am, four years later, looking to carry the message beyond the narrow realm of just making images digital, into creating the end product, the digital photo album. The hows as well as the whys.
Any comments?
At the beginning I thought that was it, that going from an old print or 35mm slide to a digital jpg or tiff was enough. Then I got talking to my clients and found out why they came to 1Scan. The scanning, for them, is just the first step. They were taking their digital images and doing something else, or at least they wanted. What they wanted to achieve was a personalised photo album.
Often, they didn't know how. So here I am, four years later, looking to carry the message beyond the narrow realm of just making images digital, into creating the end product, the digital photo album. The hows as well as the whys.
Any comments?
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