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Get ready to fall in love with our new Rustic & Romantic Marketing Set! That’s right – a little rustic, completely romantic and the perfect new look for your studio. Sharing your stunning portraiture while flawlessly coordinating the many aspects of your business has never been easier. Our Rustic & Romantic Marketing Set couples your favorite images with brochures, business cards, gift certificates, letterheads, envelopes, stickers, price lists and more. And since this customizable set quickly and easily allows you to change colors, fonts and images to match your brand, you’ll love the clean, classic results without the worry. What’s more, thanks to our instant download, you can create terrific marketing pieces right now without the wait.

This lovely set includes:
• Two-sided 4×5.5, 8 panel accordion brochure to market studios
• Two-sided business card
• Two-sided 5×7 gift certificate
• Letterhead and envelope
• Packaging sticker for client DVDs or anything else
• Price list for offerings
• All elements are vector and can be printed as large as you like
• This set is fully customizable, consisting of fully layered Photoshop PSD files to easily change the look

A special thanks to Deidre Lynn Photography for providing us with beautiful images!

Check it out in the shop here with introductory pricing!  Companion 8 Page Brochure and Complete Online Branding Kit coming soon.

We absolutely adore this creative use of the Sweet 16 Fleur collage: showcase all of your best images in one stunning blog post so your clients don’t have to scroll to receive all of the photo goodies. Brooke of White Linen Photographers shares, “We recently purchased this lovely template to share our year of 2011 on our blog and it’s perfection. It is completely our style and brought our year together with a little extra something. All of these templates are so user friendly. The only problem we ever have is not purchasing them all!”

Thank you so much for sharing this Brooke! Enjoy your $75 gift certificate to the shop!

From the shop:
The latest and greatest offering based on Design Aglow’s best selling Sweet 16 template, this mod, multi-purpose, shapely collage template is perfect for any reason and season. Simply insert desired images, text, color, or patterns into the template, and watch creativity and sales blossom. Perfect for everything from weddings, engagements, general marketing and advertising, you’ll add a spring to your step with these perfectly placed petals.

PERFECT FOR:
• Weddings
• Portraits
• Marketing and advertising
• Special events
• Valentine cards and canvases
• Save the date cards
• Album covers
• Framed collages and canvases
• Vendor gifts

Step away from the standard holiday greeting and make your own cheer to the new year! Lena Hyde Photography did just that with our Cheers! – New Year’s Card Collection. Then work some creative magic and these cards provide unlimited customization for your every need: cool graduation announcements, savvy save-the-dates, modern birth announcements, thrilling thank you notes or draw’em in open house. Our templates are your canvas…we can’t wait to see what you can create!

From the shop:

Looking to thrill with a new spin on the standard holiday greeting? Design Aglow brings the bling for the New Year with fun designs in cool shades for a year of crazy charm. Easy to personalize, these ‘need-to-have’ non-denominational cards allow for limitless customization for your every need, from today’s business to nobody’s business. Perfect for those last minute clients who won’t quite make your holiday card deadline, you can use these for your own studio, family and friends after you survive the holiday rush! So fun, you’ll create reasons to use these designs!
Designed using ProDPI’s two sided 5×7 card templates for easy printing, but can be customized to work with any print company’s guidelines.

PERFECT FOR:
• Two sided postcards
• 5×7 folded cards
• Event invitations
• Marketing materials
• Holiday cards
• Thank you notes
• Birth announcements
• Engagement sessions
• Graduation announcements

Take five fancy Design Aglow templates, pair it with one innovative photographer and what do you get? These adorable cards that were created by Leah of Leah Simmers Photography. Leah used our: Holiday Cards Couture Collection, Mr. Big, Whimsy Collection Borders, and Blog Boards: Magazine Style, proving that four is also better then one. Combine our templates with a little imagination and you’ll be creating original products in no time!

We love your creativity Leah, thanks for sharing! Now go get your shop on with a $75 gift certificate!

From the shop (Mr. Big Album):
The high school yearbook for seniors is an amazing testament to a year filled with memories to last. Still, since Graduation Day is about your special clients, what better way to celebrate a senior’s portrait session than with Design Aglow’s Mr. Big Album? It’s an album—but what’s more, it’s a guest book with areas for fun questions and space for friends and family to pen fond memories. Love the 20 professionally created layouts but don’t need a guest book? No problem! Simply replace text with your favorite images using our simple actions. A perfect way to bring added revenue to your business, this album template graduates, with honors.

PERFECT FOR:
• Photo mats
• Cards
• Canvases
• Image boxes
• Seniors
• Engagement
• Kids

When a new, potential client calls, there’s no better resource to have in your hands (and in your portrait studio) than our comprehensive Portrait Studio Client Consult Form. Not only does this document keep your workflow organized, you will also be reminded to record all important information during the consultation process, including: information about participants, style and location; photography studio experience; rates; products; goals for the session and a space to record fees collected and payment type.

And for wedding photographers, when a new, potential bride or groom calls, there’s no better resource to have at the ready than our comprehensive Wedding Studio Client Consult Form. While keeping your workflow organized, you will also be reminded to record all pertinent information during the consultation process, including: all important ceremony, wedding party, reception and coordinator information; bride and groom info; style and location; photo experience, products they are interested in and a space to record the couple’s vision for the event.

What’s more, these integrative documents collect essential data to begin a client folder. Used on paper or online via email or a web document, each form is the perfect solution for saving valuable studio time and money, while keeping you beautifully organized in the process.

Check out the portrait version and the wedding version in the shop, both with introductory pricing!

Looking for new ways to spark that “wow” factor with your clients’ images? Janalin of Janalin R Hood Studio & Gallery shares how easy it was for her to make these gorgeous baby announcements: “I made the Beautiful Mats background fit a 5×7 announcement template I was working with from WHCC. I then hand selected to change the color of the background to one that complimented my images, and was done in no time! I love the texture and visual interest that these give the card…almost like wallpaper! With the flexibility of the templates I am able to create unique pieces for my clients and without spending a lot of time. Like most photographers I would rather be shooting than on the computer.

Both of my clients that I did these for were very impressed with the detail and color of the cards. I still get referrals from one in particular that is hanging in one of my clients’ office hallway where everyone who visits gets to see!”

Thank you for sharing Janalin! Your $75 shopping spree to the shop is on its way!

From the shop:
For a simple client presentation, just drop session portraits into these elegant mats to make an instant decorative grouping they’re sure to fall in love with. Not only do these mats make collectible client collages, they are perfect for cards, canvases, album covers, signature boards and more. With so many uses, this set is sure to become an instant winner in your busy studio.

PERFECT FOR:
• Gallery wrap canvases
• Mounted prints or framed prints
• Signature boards for wedding receptions
• Marketing pieces
• Album pages and covers
• Greeting cards and announcements
• For a variety of images including babies, high school seniors, engagements, weddings, families, and children

Design Aglow was founded in 2006 with a clear goal in mind- to enhance the businesses of professional wedding and portrait photographers, through products that save time, beautify photographic art, and help guide studios to higher success. Since then, we have pioneered our market by consistently staying at the forefront of trends and consistently producing the most innovative and highest quality products possible.

We are looking for a production manager who can thrive in a fast paced, entrepreneurial environment and understands the needs of a versatile company and niche leader. You should be able to juggle several different jobs at the same time and be able to make decisions on the fly. The variety of the work on a day-to-day basis recommends this job to people with strong work ethics, organizational abilities, and a love of growth.

We strive to maintain an open, creative, work environment where everyone has the ability to voice opinions and affect company strategies. Our growth is a direct result of consistently setting trends (rather than following them) and growing a strong team of dedicated, passionate employees. Our customers are global, and are as loyal to us as we are invested in their success.

Our Production Manager will:

• Manage products through from conception to completion
• Oversee the production process, and design a production schedule
• Make sure that products are produced on time and of the highest possible quality
• Find talent and foster relationships with top industry leaders
• Industry trend-spot and product suggestion
• Proofread and edit content
• Coordinate with designers, writers, photographers and stylists
• Oversee copyrighting process of all products
• Supervise and motivating a team of workers
• Submit weekly production report

• You will learn basic Photoshop and InDesign

A knowledge of the professional photography industry is helpful.

This position is in downtown West Palm Beach, FL.  Please submit your resume to jobs@designaglow.com by February 14, 2012.

The magazine style blog boards are a huge hit with clients after photo sessions – they add a sense of professionalism to your blog posts while keeping content exciting and fresh! Evelyn of Freckles Photography writes, “I photographed a round of mini sessions in our local small town with the theme of “Main Street Modern”. After the sessions I used the Blog & Print Inspiration Boards: Magazine Style templates to blog a few of the families. They were so easy to create and look amazing! These clients and my followers loved the look of the templates! They commented that my blog looks so much more professional now. I even had people from out of state inquiring about a session!”

Thank you for sharing these with us Evelyn! Enjoy your $75 shopping spree on us in the shop!

From the shop:
Because there’s nothing quite like the clean, perfect use of white space, the luscious lines of flowing text, and the robustness of a well-conceived layout, Design Aglow is proud to present Magazine Style blog and print inspiration boards. Simply drop desired images in, and you’re ready to go. Save time with 15 layered blog templates, and play while you publish, knowing we’ve got the divine design you have in mind—without the grind.

PERFECT FOR:
• Weddings
• Portraits
• Marketing and advertising
• Special events

After the launch of Design Aglow’s highly successful Inspire Me Cards: A Posing Guide For Wedding Parties guide our readers are ready for more. Many of you have written us and requested a guide completely devoted to creative poses and session ideas for grooms & groomsmen, and we are more than happy to deliver. In addition to our own stock of beautiful groom & groomsmen poses, we are looking for input from our lovely Design Aglow readers. Your images will help us deliver what we wish to be the most unforgettable and inspirational bank of groomsmen posing ideas yet.

What We Need:

We are looking for extremely creative, outside-the-box posing ideas to include in this new guide, which is made exclusively for professional photographers to inspire them at future weddings and groom/groomsmen sessions. So scour your archives, find your best work, and show us what you got! The following are the types of images we need most to make this guide the best it can be:

• Close-ups, mid-length, and full-length photos that showcase creativity in either the pose itself or the way the subject interacts with her surroundings;
• New takes on classic posing ideas. The more unique, the better;
• Images that incorporate cropping, depth-of-field, or framing in interesting ways, or that use different lenses creatively to produce an unforgettable effect in the final portrait;
• Groom images of the groom by himself are more than welcome, but we would LOVE to see your groomsmen posing.

What You’ll Win:

If your work is chosen to be published in our new guide you will receive a $50 Design Aglow store credit (for each photo we feature) and a free copy of the final guide to get yourself inspired too!

Some Rules:

Please read these rules carefully before entering your images:

• You must have created each photo that you enter personally, hold the legal copyright, and have a valid model release for each client that appears in the photos you enter.
• You must complete all information on the contest’s entry page to be eligible to win.
• Your images must be a minimum of 5×7 @ 300dpi, please no web-sized images.
• If you are submitting more than one image, please group all of your images into ONE folder titled YOUR NAME. Then create a zip file of the folder and upload the zip file.

Enter here before February 20, 2012 at Midnight EST. Good luck and we look forward to seeing your entry!

*Special thanks to Tinywater Photography for the lovely sample images.

Now that the holiday festivities are over, it’s time to start thinking about the next big holiday that’s right around the corner: Valentine’s Day! Today we have an adorable share from Tricia of SNAP Photography. She writes, “I used the Easy Elegance Collection Borders for my kids Valentine’s Cards – it’s been snowing a lot this winter and I wanted to use the contrast of the snow with a heart for a more vintage theme.

I love these for their simplicity but also that reminiscent feeling of old Valentine’s cards. The Elegance Borders have an Art Deco feel that I think is perfect for the day of love, and with my kids I think it is so sweet.”

Thank you so much for sharing Tricia! Your $75 gift certificate is on its way!

From the shop:
Looking to set the scene without stealing the show? Easy Elegance Proof Borders combine custom designs with an elegant silvery color palette to complement lovely images without forcing them to the background. Put stunning photographs center stage and watch these five supporting actors show their chops in six standard file sizes.

PERFECT FOR:
• Weddings, engagement shoots, children, fine art, and marketing materials.
• Digital mat on framed photos
• Proof album
• Any display album up to 10×10
• Loose proofs