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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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Metal Prints have arrived! We have two new types that provide a durable, edgy presentation sure to excite any client. Their modern appearance finds favor with many high school seniors wanting to stand out among their friends. We have two unique styles to choose from.
Vibrant Metal Prints use a heat sublimation process to infuse your image into a solid white base surface making your image bold and bright in all areas.
Metallic Fade Metal Prints use a heat sublimation process to infuse your image into a clear base surface causing the white areas to fade away and reveal the brushed silver texture.
Our metal prints have square corners with the option to upgrade to rounded corners for a different look. We can even drill two or four holes in the corners if you would like to use hooks or chains to display them.
Add a Float Block to the back for a great wall display.
If you would like some more information about Metal Prints please visit our website for details.
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Powering Down for Electrical Maintenance
Saturday, August 14th - We're growing with you!
As business grows so does our equipment capabilities. Many of our new products require new high powered machines and these new machines need electrical upgrades to operate.
Saturday morning, August 14th the electricians will be shutting off power to a large portion of our facility for the entire morning. While we will be able to accept orders this will cause a delay to all email notifications and order processing until the system is back on and catches up.
We apologize in advance for the delayed services.
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Sports VIP Made Simple!
Here are some simple steps to make the VIP ordering process smooth!
Building VIP Packages - You will want to build 4-6 packages that best suite your individuals to choose from. There should be $4.00 to $6.00 difference between each package. To build your packages you will:
1. Start with a Lab Pack as your base. Every individual within an order must have a Lab Pack ordered to complete a VIP order. We have 26 Pro Design Lab Packs (YA-YZ) and 26 Regular Lab Packs (ZA-ZZ) available for you to choose from.
2. Select any additional add-ons for packages. You will want to build a variety of packages with add-on items to suit the needs of your audience. That's where your savings really mount up.
Create your Money Envelopes - Whether you create your own or used one of our pre-designed envelopes you will want to list all your Package options for the individuals to choose from along with your selected add-on items.
If you would like our help creating VIP Packages we would love to help. Give us a call.
First time ordering envelopes? Call: 1-888-321-4665
Place your Order using SportsPix - Once you're ready to order you will need to use the SportPix software. After opening the software select VIP pricing when prompted and continue from there. Keep in mind you must select a Lab Pack for each individual in the league for your VIP order. Any individual whose order does not qualify for VIP pricing can be ordered through the Standard Pricing method. It's that simple!
For more information please visit our website.
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If you're looking for a fun way to keep up with everything going on here at BRI then join us on Facebook! We love seeing your work as well as hearing from you and know our other likers do as well.
What some people are saying about us on Facebook
Bekah Lebahn - I just wanted to let you know, I received my first order of pictures today, and I am like, smiling from ear to ear....they turned out SO GOOD!!! The way you guys shipped out my 22x24 foam board picture was like, art! Not a dent, not a scratch ...it was perfect! And the quality was awesome!!! I'm so very happy with them!!! I will never again go to a Walmart for pictures! :) Thank you so much!
Rebekah Tillotson - My 8X8 Canvas Covered Press Book arrived this morning from Black River Imaging . Oh my, lovely. This book is really quite beautiful. My parents were in tears after I gave it to them.
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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:
Free Set of Greeting
Cards
All you need to do to enter is just simply click on the banner above.
We offer a full line of press printed cards for all your customer's
needs. These cards are great for holiday greetings, birth announcements, wedding
invitations, party invitations, etc. The options are unlimited.
This
week's offer includes:
- 1 set of Greeting Cards (25 Cards)
- Standard Card Stock
- 5x7, Folded
- $33.25 value
- Includes Linen Envelopes
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We Congratulate Our Previous Winner:
Previous winner:
1 Set of Folded Business Cards
were won by Marsha Steckling
of Life Exposed Photography
in Boulder, Colorado
www.lifeexposedphoto.com
Click the website link above if you'd like to send Marsha a notice of congratulations!
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More Template Designer Tips
Anytime you're using tools you want to be able to use them correctly, but also to use the tool to its full benefit. Following are a few tips to help you make the most out of your custom templates created with Template Designer in the ROES software.
The Grid
The Grid tool can make the difference between a template that looks so-so and one that looks beautifully aligned and spot on. You can adjust the increments depending on how finely tuned you want/need the alignment of your nodes. Using the "Snap to Grid" option takes the "eyeballing" out of it. Your new node will snap right to the nearest grid line so you don't have to get closer to your monitor and squint.
That "Running Off the Page" Look
A popular thing to do in composites is to make the image appear to be haphazardly placed where part of it is off the page. When creating the node in Template Designer create the node smaller than your shot, but align the node so that the edge closest to the page edge doesn't actually run off the page, it's aligned directly with the edge of the page. Then align your shot the way you wish it to appear.
The Shortcut
Everyone likes shortcuts, right? It's a faster way to get from point A to point B and who doesn't like that? Template Designer doesn't. The shortcut to which I refer is taking a previously saved template and editing it. After all it does have some of the elements you want. All it would take is just to delete this node here and add another node there. Resist the urge. Template Designer likes to keep saved things the way they are. If it's a new template, make a new template from scratch. You could make a note of the coordinates of the nodes you want from the saved one and make things go a little faster. You'll notice the coordinates displayed under the "Edit" button when Template Designer is active.
The Unwanted Node
So you're creating. You're in a zone. You've created a node and now it just looks wonky so you want to get rid of it. Right-click the node and choose "Remove". Don't simply move it off the page. Nodes that run off or are completely off the template can potentially slow an order while our programs attempt to find the errant node.
Stroking a Rotated Node
Template Designer is a great in-program tool for creating great-looking templates. It does have its difficulties, though. One of them is stroking a rotated node. One way to get around this difficulty is to create a node just a smidge bigger than your image node, place it behind your image node, and fill it with the desired stroke color. With this method you could make a stroke out of any jpeg image, too. How about a brushed metal, stone, rusty iron, or asphalt stroke? Cool, eh?
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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!!!
Album Forum
Very somber wedding album creation...
Marketing, Sales & Promotions
Christmas gift for clients
You'll need to be logged in to view these threads. Black River Landing requires a user name that is separate from your BRI account. Click here to register for the Landing.
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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