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| Cypress 5x5 Iris Book |
| Cypress hit a home run with its 5x5 flush-mounted Iris Book. This elegant book works beautifully for portraits or small, add-on wedding albums. This is a library-bound hardback album wrapped in Japanese bookbinding fabrics. Custom-sized, matching presentation boxes are available. |
| Price: $230 with printing.
www.cypressalbums.com |
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Forbeyon Perfect Bound Book |
| Our other winner in this category melds magazine-style album fashion with handmade craftsmanship. Forbeyon’s Perfect Bound book comes with a hard cover intertwined with a variety of fabrics, textures and colors. Photowraps or dust jackets are also available. These one-of-a-kind books are produced with a UV coating to help preserve colors.
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| Available in sizes from 4x5 to 12x12. Price: $34-$200, depending on size.
www.forbeyon.com
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| Leather Craftsmen 8500 Signature Edition |
| Leather Craftsmen scored an impressive victory in the Traditional/Matted Photo Album category with the 8500 Signature Edition. The album blends the elegance and quality of Leather Craftsmen’s popular matted albums with modern touches from contemporary hingeless flush pages. The handcrafted album comes in two frame colors and four liner colors. |
| Price: varies with size, materials and page options; starting at $162 for bind-only 5x5 book with 16 images. www.leathercraftsmen.com |
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| Cypress 5x5 Image Folio |
| Concentrating on contemporary design, Cypress won with its 5x5 Image Folio,
which can be folded into a small booklet with a ribbon closure or unfolded, displayed like a frame. Cypress offers more than 18 Japanese bookbinding fabrics and Swiss ribbon accents. Slightly modified folios can hold a combination of two CD/DVDs or one disk with a print (up to 5x5 inches).
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| Price: $38.
www.cypressalbums.com
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| Image Moments 6 |
| Digital frames continue to dominate the Frame category. This year’s winner is the Image Moments 6, a high-resolution digital frame with a 5.7-inch VGA (640x480-pixel) digital LCD screen. Nicknamed The Executive, Image Moments 6 displays 140 pixels per inch, the highest pixel density of any digital photo frame on the market. The frame features an LED backlight for deep color reproduction and uses environmentally-friendly materials in a low power consumption design. |
| Price: $99.
www.digitalfoci.com |
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| Emotion Media ShareItVideo |
| Emotion Media’s Web show service, ShareItVideo, helps photographers reach hundreds of new customers through automatic slideshow integration with popular social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. Photographers place an order, and Emotion Media’s designers handle all slideshow production and online posting. Emotion Media then sends out a link to the photographer and everyone on the show’s invitation list. Photographers can also use the service to embed video on their own websites and blogs.
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| Price: starting at $25.
www.emotionmedia.com |
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Miller’s Accordion Wallet Book |
| The second award-winner in this category is the Accordion Wallet Book from Miller’s Professional Imaging. These mini-books are available in two sizes, 3x3-inches and 2.5x3.5. They open to display either individual image panels or panoramic spreads. Available through Miller’s Press, the books come with your choice of 17 cover options and four paper types. They ship back to you customer-ready, usually within one or two days after ordering.
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| Price: $5 per book, three-book minimum.
www.millerslab.com
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| PickPic v3.3 |
| Acquired by White House Custom Colour in January 2008, PickPic launched a new version in the fall and added a Photoshop add-on to help with image fulfillment tasks. The system offers fully branded online proofing. A one-time fee buys professional installation on your existing Web hosting account, as well as a customized color scheme and logo integration to match your main websites. Photographers can manage galleries, pricing, orders and clients through the intuitive PickPic Web Manager control panel. While the service is commission-free, photographers are responsible for their own ongoing Web hosting, lab and merchant account fees.
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| Price: $1,249 one-time setup fee.
www.pickpic.com
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| PickPic v3.3 |
| A multifaceted product with multifaceted applications, PickPic scored a second award for its online album design tools and image hosting. Using PickPic’s interactive toolset, photographers can design albums online and post galleries of their images. PickPic’s online printing and order fulfillment service lets photographers sell individual images or collections directly to their customers.
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| Price: $1,249 one-time setup fee.
www.pickpic.com |
