Released on = November 16, 2006, 5:59 am

Press Release Author = FotoInsight digital photo book printing online

Industry = Consumer Services

Press Release Summary = Free software from online the photo service FotoInsight
helps to create coffee table style photo books with fully editable covers. Without
any prior experience, beginners can present and preserve their own photos in
individual, carefully crafted, glossy photo books.

Press Release Body = Cambridge, UK. 22 November 2006. - The personal, coffee table
style photo book is rapidly developing into a very popular photo print product and
is about to overtake the traditional 6"x4" print as the most common photographic
printed output in British households. Rarely has the development of a consumer
product progressed as quickly. FotoInsight of Cambridge, UK launched photo books
from an online facility with limited editing features one year ago. Today the
company FotoInsight is introducing a revolution in Photo Book creation software - a
time saving fade-proof record of precious memories for print. It allows novice and
inexperienced users to layout their digital images in full colour double page
spread, move, crop and edit pictures to any size and add text freely within the
photo book, on the cover and on the book spine.

FotoInsight's Managing Director Klaas Brümann comments: "Our customer's expectations
have been growing rapidly. We have decided to provide photo books only through our
software, which we is compact download. Our free software provides a photos book
draft within three minutes. To the astonishment of most, it looks just like a
professionally laid out coffee table style photo book." As photo books can be made
with up to 98 pages, which can take in excess of 500 images the software also helps
to improve the online upload to the photo book production facilities used by
FotoInsight.

In time for Christmas, FotoInsight broadens its photobook range. It now starts with
photo booklets (from £5.99) and offers linen cover as well as full colour soft and
hardcover options in roughly A4 size or squared, all in all 64 different sizes and
shapes are available on http://fotoinsight.co.uk/book (or in Euros from
http://fotoinsight.com/book). All photo books (square and A4) are available with an
editable full picture soft or hard cover or with a linen cover and a very durable
channel bind. Channel bind covers use a revolutionary spine forming one of the
strongest binds available.



The Photo Book Software
The software for the photo book starts with an easy to use assistant. According to
FotoInsight the assistant provides a photo book draft layout within 3 minutes,
already with a professional look. This helps to create a printed photo album with
hundreds of images quickly. Such layouts can still be fully edited; adding pictures
one by one or complete folders, a time saving option. The application provides
graphic images for backgrounds; nicer though it seems to use own pictures as a
background of a page or a full double page spread.

Instead of using the assistant to create a layout, pages can also be designed
individually. This allows rotating and skewing images freely. Any picture can be
spread across the page or double page from edge to edge, set on its own or as a
background. For example land scape and panorama pictures look great across two A4
pages.

FotoInsight also sets a narrow white line around pictures in the book to set them
apart from photographic backgrounds, just as usual in professionally edited coffee
table style photobooks. The software provides a useful image editor, to edit
individual images. It includes tools to move freely, rotate and label images and to
adjust brightness, contrast or saturation. The editor in the software also covers
red eye removal and automatic contrast adjustment; plus an undo function. It comes
handy that the edited images can be saved as a jpeg.

When saving the photo book project the CeWe Photobook Software presented by
Fotoinsight offers a different approach. Instead of embedding the image files into a
lay-out file (as would happen with a pdf-file for example) the software creates a
subfolder where all images are copied into as jpegs. This has the advantage that
each individual photo can be post edited with any digital imaging software. It also
allows to batch process these images with other applications.

In the age of the digital camera and camera phones people snap away happily taking
lots of pictures to remember their special events. However generally these digital
images languish on computer hard drives and the personal memory fades as to who,
why, where and what the pictures were about. This is why recently photo albums have
seen a revival. FotoInsight have combined the digital age with the growing interest
in printed photo albums and taken this to the next step with the CeWe Photo Book -
bringing all kinds of new layout tools and making it easier and cheaper to create
digital memorybooks with friends and family. According to FotoInsight it doesn't
only print photographs in high quality, but also text is clear, sharp and easy to
read. Great for those who like to add ample text to their images.



Convenience and flexibility
FotoInsight offers a PC and Mac compatible independent online photo service, fully
flexible to be used with images from any digital camera. According to FotoInsight's
management the online service offers superior quality at lower costs when compared
to inkjet printing. FotoInsight offers an extensive array of award-winning photo
print and photographic gift items for the consumer, business, photography, and
graphic arts markets. From Cambridge, Mr Brumann comments: "Photographic memories
must never fade. Our technology is smarter, providing long lasting Memory Books in
superior quality." The professional production process keeps costs low, so that
FotoInsight can offer photo booklets starting from £5.99 - plus £2.99 for postage in
the UK, to Ireland and most other European countries. FotoInsight offers a volume
discount when ordering 20 or more photo books of the same format and size.

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This press release online: http://fotoinsight.blogspot.com
Homepage Photo Books: http://fotoinsight.co.uk/book
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Information about FotoInsight Ltd
FotoInsight Ltd was founded in 2003 in Cambridge and runs an easy to use digital
photo processing service, offering an extensive array of award-winning photographic
print and gift items as well as the CeWe Photobooks, photo posters, photographic
calendars and photos on canvas printing. Customers benefit from patented development
processes and the experience of Europe's largest independent photo lab with an
installed capacity of 18 million prints per day. Photos ordered through
http://fotoinsight.co.uk are developed in one of 19 strategically located, state of
the art photo labs, employing 3200 staff, with an output of over 3 billion prints
per year.

FotoInsight International
pr (@) fotoinsight.com
FotoInsight EURO / Ireland - http://fotoinsight.com/book
FotoInsight Deutschland - http://cewe.fotoinsight.de
FotoInsight Österreich - http://cewe.fotoinsight.at
FotoInsight España - http://libro.fotoinsight.es
FotoInsight Italia - http://libro.fotoinsight.it
FotoInsight UK - http://fotoinsight.co.uk/book


Web Site = http://fotoinsight.co.uk/book

Contact Details = FotoInsight Ltd.
Klaas Brumann, Managing Director
9 Moore Close
Cambridge, CB4 1ZP, UK
Skype fotoinside
Tel. +44 8700 114911
Fax. +44 8715 601675