Do-It-Yourself Online Proofing Solutions

If you’re a professional photographer and looking for an online proofing system for your clients you have many choices.

You can go the “hosted” route and use a service like Pictage ($99-$250/month) SmugMug ($149.95/year), Zenfolio ($40/year) or Phosys (£35 + VAT/month) to handle everything for you (proofing, fulfillment, customer service, billing, etc.).

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Looking for Great Business Cards?

The cornerstone of any business meeting is often the exchange of business cards. Memorable cards often get kept, while ugly or tacky cards end up in the trash (well that’s my personal style at least).

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Wedding DVD Video Formats: NTSC vs. PAL

It’s not often that our clients require that our wedding/slideshow DVDs work exactly the same in other countries as they do in the United States, but the situation has presented itself before.

If you’re unfamiliar with how the rest of the world’s television/video formats work, here’s a quick refresher:

NTSC (National Television Standards Committee) is a format used on DVDs and video cassettes in the Americas, Japan, Canada and 30 other countries.

PAL (Phase Alternating Line) is used widely in Europe, Africa, Australia, the Middle East and China to name a few. Now these two facts shouldn’t be confused with the DVD region codes that are in place in all set top DVD players.

Region encoding is the mechanism that enables motion picture studios to control the worldwide release of their movies. It is required by the DVD Forum in all commercial hardware DVD players. Every DVD-Video disc contains one byte of data representing a region code, which limits where the disc can be played.

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