We succeed through your success, so we want to hear from you. Whether you have suggestions for changes, comments on how things have improved for you, or if you have questions as an existing member or questions before you create your free gallery space.
Toll Free: M-F 9:00a -5:00p Mountain time. 1-800-999-8084 to speak with any of our friendly customer service staff
You can reach us via online support and we will reply as soon as possible.
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File upload of your event images is easy, and with our multiple T1 lines, your connection speed to our event servers should be limited only by the speed of your ISP. We strive to keep upload times to a minimum, because we know you make your money by shooting more event and wedding portrait jobs, not by sitting in front of your monitor. Our log-in process is simple too! Once your account is activated with us, just your user name and password is all you need for future access to your event and wedding / portrait storefront.
Your event or wedding-portrait customer can quickly access your uploaded files 24 hours a day - 7 days a week. Many photographers provide links to our servers from their home page, allowing them to provide their clients with one easily accessible address. i.e. www.foobarphoto.com. From that home page, the client clicks on a link to their "gallery" or "electronic proof book". Once inside, the customer selects their shoot from the list and enters the site. You can even password protect each shoot separately, to control who gets to see each job.
If you don't already have a web site up and running to showcase your talents, or the one you have is in need of redesign, our talented web staff is ready to help your event photography business become more profitable through growth, via a new look and feel, and enhanced search engine placement. In fact, access to our event services does not even require that you have a web site. Your client can access your images directly on our servers via a URL that points directly to your private event gallery space. ie http://username.digitaleventsonline.com. You'll note the domain listed is slightly different than the one listed for this web site. We do this to protect you from your client discovering what you actually pay for print services. Leaving you free to charge whatever you think is fair.
Our easy to use interface allows your client to quickly browse their gallery of images, select those they wish to order, determine sizes, cropping, options such as surface and borders. They pay for the order online via credit card. We take the burden of processing the payment for you, then we print the order to your customers specifications, package and ship to their address. We send you confirmation of the order upon completion, and you can review pending and completed event orders online, anytime, 24/7. All orders are shipped via USPS to keep your customers costs down. If they prefer an expedited shipping option, UPS is available for actual shipping cost plus a nominal handling fee.
After all, this is what you are in business for, right? At the end of each month, we tally the total of your orders, subtract your cost of prints (remember your customer pays shipping) and an additional 10% for processing. So be sure to factor that in when determining prices you want to charge your clients. The remaining balance is your profit, so we cut a check and send it your way, with a statement. Pretty simple. Signing up is easy, and best of all, it is free.
Here is an example of how the breakdown could look on a sample job:
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5x5
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$100.00
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$0.90 each
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$22.50
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$288.00
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Time is a non-renewable resource
This site and services are operated by Reed Photo-Imaging, 888 Federal Blvd. Denver, Colorado 80204.
For over Thirty years we have provided the highest level of quality photo lab services to an international professional market. From wet photographic processes to digital only workflows, we strive to be leaders in our industry for product quality and customer service. From elite fine art photographers to masters of portraiture to some of the top editorial and sports photographers in the nation, we know your business and strive to make your more successful. We understand that our success only comes from your success. We want to hear from you if you have questions, comments or concerns regarding any of our services.
We work hard to keep our prices as low as we can, and still offer you the best quality possible. Our commitment to this level of quality shows in the experience level of our production teams and the types of high-end equipment we run. Images uploaded to this site will only be printed on professional level Fuji Crystal Archive papers. Never ever on cheaper consumer papers. Our department heads offer decades of experience in the field. Some have been with us twenty years or more. The equipment operators are true professionals, not the minimum wage kid looking for "a job".
The special prices we offer to this sites store front members are not published here, because we feel the photographer's profit margin is his/her business, not that of their client. Once you sign up for your storefront, you will have complete access to your cost for each and every print, before you decide what is fair to charge your client. We know you will be surprised at just how competitive our prices are. And yes, these low prices to include professional service. Not mini-lab/department store/camera store service and quality. True, genuine professional work, and to top it off, we even let you control the color and density of your files. And we will do whatever we can to help guide you along the path of generating a good match between your system and ours. We will even toss in several free test prints to get you there.
When you sign up for your site, we will send you a starter kit to get things rolling. This kit will include an sRGB profile for the Professional Fuji Frontier printers, and Fuji Crystal Archive profiles for the larger LightJet prints. Setup guidelines for file submission. Also included in the kit are two "Shirley" prints, one from each printer type, and a copy of the file used to generate the Shirleys on disc with the profiles. These Shirleys can be used to aid in the verification step of calibrating your monitors.
We always recommend a calibrated work flow. Please don't confuse this with a "profiled" workflow. They are similar, and go hand in hand, but are not entirely the same. In the very least, a calibrated workflow requires that your monitors be calibrated to ISO standards, and your cameras be calibrated for proper white point and color balance. Good files coming into your system are far easier to correct for color and density, and a properly calibrated monitor is imperative if you have any hope of knowing what your files actually contain. Profiles can go a very long way to providing greater accuracy, but many of our clients are satisfied with the results of calibration alone. You make the choice as to what works best for you.
Need to get started right away?
Sign up for your gallery site to get the ball rolling. Here are some helpful tips to get started:
Files must be saved as 8bit RGB. sRGB is recommended unless you are selling fine-art. Fine art should be saved in Adobe1998. Send us only one resolution of your file. The best you have available to you. Our software will correctly re-size your file for both web and print outputs. If you are on a dial-up, and would like to send us a disk, feel free to upload small thumbnails ( no larger than 500pixelsx500pixels) to build your gallery with, send us the disk with the hi-res files by the same name, and we will load them on the server for you.
File resolution is determined by whichever is the greatest file size:
If you have more questions, feel free to contact us M-F 9:00a - 5:00p mountain time on our toll free line:1-800-999-8084. We look forward to helping you get started.
Time is a non-renewable resource
Time is money - plain and simple. By freeing your time, we allow you to shoot more events, and solicit more business, instead of spending countless hours handing out expensive proof books, chasing orders from your clients, sorting out those orders, running files to the lab, placing orders at the lab, picking up the orders, sorting and verifying and finally delivering the final prints back to the client. We know how exhausting this can be. In fact many of our staff were professionals just like you, losing valuable time performing tasks that don't directly generate income for your event photography business. Let's not even talk about the mess of collecting several orders from several people, especially from the same event!
Our plan is to free up as much of your time as we can, eliminating the most tedious and time destroying tasks you face as a photographer.
Free Account Signup:
After you complete the free sign-up, your credit card will be billed 1 penny for your own personal 5 gigabytes of raid protected storage, waiting for your print ready files. With proper housekeeping and deletion of old jobs, 5 gigs can go a long way to build your profits and your business. Additional space is available for a low one-time fee of $25 for each additional 5 gigabytes of space. Unlike other sites, We NEVER charge a monthly fee, but after your first year with us, we charge a low flat-rate annual renewel fee of $99. And your account will remain active as long as it continues to show activity. Accounts that show no activity for 90 days will be deactivated to make room for working accounts.
How you get paid:
Your clients visit your gallery site, order and pay for prints and shipping. What your customer is charged for prints is determined entirely by you. These orders are processed in-house by our team of professionals then shipped to your client. The software tracks your orders and total sales. You can access this data 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. At the end of the month your total sales are tallied and we subtract from the proceeds what you pay for the prints, and our 10% for order processing. Keep in mind, we NEVER charge a monthly fee. We send you a check or pay you via a verified Pay Pal account. Your preference.
Complete Flexibility:
Select exactly what print sizes and services you wish to make available to your customer base, then set the prices for those services. Don't worry, this is faster and easier than you may think.
You Control Print Quality
Color correct your files and prepare them so they are "print ready". Odds are pretty good that you already perform this task. And we will even toss in several calibration print runs, free of charge, to help you get your system dialed into ours!
Fast, Convenient Upload
Upload your files to the server, creating a new "gallery" within your space. This is where you can set password protection if you deem it necessary. Protecting a boudoir gallery from prying eyes may be one example.
You Decide When to Notify Your Client
You notify your client that their images are available and how to find them. We have a ready made E-mail template you can download free to get you started, and save more time. This is where the bulk of the work on your end comes to a close. We take it from here, and you receive a check for your profit on the sales of the prints at the end of the month. You can relax in knowing that our staff have been professionals in the photographic arena for years. We completely understand what it takes to make a great print so your customer will be satisfied with the final results.
Your Client Orders and Digital Events Online Does the Rest
Your client enters your gallery space and views all of the images you have made available to them. They place their orders online, pay via credit card, the order is printed on Fuji Crystal Archive paper, packaged and shipped directly to them. Both you and the customer will be notified via e-mail when the event prints are shipped, and after allowing proper shipping time for the prints to arrive at their destination, the job is complete.
Remember that long list of tasks at the top of the page? Here is a summary of how things will improve for you and your client:
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Collecting orders from your clients and family |
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Sorting out those orders |
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Running files to the lab, |
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fast upload |
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Placing orders at the lab, |
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Picking up the orders |
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Delivering the final prints back to the client. |
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we ship! |
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