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We appreciate the opportunity to inform you of our ongoing launch of new products and services. Please take a moment to look below at what is new this week at Black River Imaging.
Feel free to visit our website for more information about these and other products. If you are new to Black River Imaging, don't forget to create a login to get started.
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Specialty Shaped Stickers
We have ten new shapes of stickers to set you apart from the crowd! Specialty Shaped Stickers can really provide you with functional uses around your studio or for personalized client orders. They work great as custom studio labels for the backside of prints, studio tags/labels for packaging or a variety of custom fun stickers for children.
You can order Specialty Shaped Stickers in the Black River Imaging
Software inside the Press Products Catalog. For more information
please visit our website.
If you need to know the exact alignments for text placement we highly recommend downloading our Photoshop templates located on our website. You'll find them by clicking on The Learning Center link.
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Sale Extended!
You can now get all our Float Mounts at 30% off through August 4th. All sizes are included in
this special offer.
To
order a Float Mount it is a good idea to start with one of our Photoshop templates to prevent the wrap edges from cutting off text, faces, or other important elements. To use the Photoshop templates, simply download, open
the file and select the size you want.
Once you are ready to order you will need to go into the Black River
Imaging Software. Go to the Fine Art Products Catalog and select the tab with
Float Mounts. You will now want to choose the folder with your properly sized image file. Next, you will need to select the size and paper type you would like for
your Float Mount. The size will be located under the Float Mount tab. Then
select the paper type you would like from the options palette. Select the image
you want to print by simply drag and dropping it
into the product opening.
Visit our website for pricing and
available sizes.
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Facebook
Contest Almost Over!
Go to our Facebook page for a chance to win a FREE WPPI Road Trip registration at a location near you! Bonus: Each winner can bring a friend for free also!
Here's what you need to do: Take a photo of a recent BRI product you have received and fell in love with. Post the product photo on our Facebook page before August 4th and we'll do a drawing for three lucky winners! We look forward to seeing all your entries!
See WPPI Road Trip link below.
What some people are saying about us on Facebook
Linda Cowan Hall - I have people actually ASKING me for my brand-new Itty Bitty Cards after my clients were showing them around! People seem to really love the teeny-tiny size. I chose these as an alternative business card to hand out when traveling. I can easily carry about 4 times the Itty Bittys in the same space that I carried standard business cards. These are not only adorable, but very high quality, and everybody wants one. Thanks BRI!
Deanna Martin Sammons - Just
wanted to say Shawn in customer service rocks! I'm stepping out of my
box in August and shooting some cheerleaders and Shawn, with ease and
patience helped me design the ordering envelopes! Thank you so
much BRI for your great customer service!
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Wanna get ahead with marketing strategies, product ideas, or technical skills? Sign up for the Road Trip stop nearest you and learn from the best.
For more information on all the cities and speakers please visit the WPPI Road Trip website.
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The BRIdge Contest is a weekly chance to win
Black River Imaging products.
This week - Enter for a chance to win:
1 set of Folded Business
Cards
In addition to the standard 2 x 3.5 business card
being available in both one-sided and two-sided versions, you can also choose
from our 2 x 3.5 folded business cards. These are offered on both a folded
vertical format and a folded horizontal format and come in sets of 250 cards.
While business cards have always been an essential marketing tool,
folded business cards double the amount of space. They allow you add more
information or showcase images with a full horizontal
spread.
This week's offer
includes:
- 1 set of Folded Business Cards
(250)
- 2 x 3.5 folded
(horizontal format or vertical format)
- Standard
Paper
- $59.25 Value
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We Congratulate Our Previous Winner:
Previous winner:
$50 off an Album
was won by Jenna Perfette
of Jenna Perfette Photography
in Hillsborough, New Jersey
perfettephoto.com
Click the website link above if you'd like to send Jenna a notice of congratulations!
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Grateful and Giving Back
Folks, we have an amazing job. People give us money to play with fun electronic gadgets and high-powered software. If we do our job well, we receive respect and attention, and more money. Matt and I have had a lot of jobs over the course of our adult lives . . . we've done construction, banking, pizza delivery, real estate, and we've even been on stage. When I was working at a bank, no one wanted to know what I did at work, and it wasn't a point of conversation anywhere else. When I delivered a pizza on time maybe I got an extra buck, but five minutes later nobody cared-including myself. But photography is different. Good photography draws people, makes them feel, and connects them. To have a job that pay the bills and feed the family. . . that is good. . . but to spend our lives doing something we love, and then get paid for it? We are humble and grateful.
One thing that comes along with such a career is a responsibility. We have always tried to help out. We will do a free session for a friend that we know cannot afford a fee, or for a business just getting started. For 2 years in a row we have taken pictures at a banquet raising money for juvenile services. It's always been our hearts to not just make money with our cameras, but to live and give with our cameras.
At the beginning of this year we got to do just this. A friend was the chair for Autism Speaks in Southwest Missouri, a local nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness of autism, and asked us to be a part of a project called "Faces of Autism". We offered to do sessions for any family with an autistic child. The response has been wonderful; so far, we have done over 25 free sessions. We have created a gallery of beautiful children, each large picture mounted along with a bio of the child's story.
This has not been easy. We have given hours to this project, but it is so rewarding to give without expecting anything in return. We had mothers cry-they had never had the courage to have a professional session, for fear of how the kids might act. The mothers were rightly afraid-sometimes it was not easy to get good pictures. But oh, it was worth it.
So far the project has debuted at our studio, at a local movie theatre and at a historic building in Joplin for their art walk. The response has been good. Some people have cried and some have laughed, looking into the children's faces. Some did both. There are more venues coming; the exhibit will be at a local coffee shop for a couple weeks and then at our brand new airport.
Thousands of people will see these pictures and become more aware about autism, how it affects the mind, and the staggering numbers of children affected by this disease. We have been contacted by a research company in Salt Lake City that heard about this project and wants to buy some pictures to use on their website.
The key to all of this was that we did not expect anything. We offered to take pictures of autistic kids, that's all. Not everyone has a job that gives them the opportunity to positively touch other people's lives. You do. Make the most of it.
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What's Going On at the Landing Forum?
Here are some HOT THREADS going on at our professional photographers forum. Come join the FUN!!!
Children & Family Photography
Beautiful Belly
Marketing, Sales & Promotions
Accounting
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Black River Landing is open to all professional photographers so encourage any of your fellow photography friends to join in and learn and/or contribute to making us all better at our craft.
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